This was the initial question:
On Feb 26, 8:11 am, Jared Forsyth <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been looking around for a way of managing user-configurable
> application settings
In this discussion we must IMHO different between "low-level
settings", "admin configurable settings" and "user configurable
settings":
1. low level setting
- configuration that is needed to start up the project
- Stored in settings.py
- e.g.: database connection data
2. Admin configurable settings
- project wide configuration
- e.g.: "min. search term length", "min. time out between login"
2. User configurable settings
- User specific configuration
- e.g.: "Your preferred markup", "Your preferred JavaScript Editor"
Admin- and user settings are not needed at start up, so they can be
stored into the database. It should be possible to change them in a
nice way, with validation.
In my django-dbpreferences [1] app, the settings are organized with a
form.
A other problem with the current settings.py in django is the
namespace.
IMHO every app should have this own namespace. To handle variable name
conflicts i organized it in this way:
Every app had this own settings file, e.g: .../FooApp/Foo_settings.py
----------------------------------------------------
VAR1 = "Bar"
VAR2 = 123
----------------------------------------------------
In the global project settings, i do this:
----------------------------------------------------
...
# Bind the FooApp settings to the name FOO
from FooApp import Foo_settings as FOO
try:
# User can overwrite everything in his separated settings file
from local_settings import *
except ImportError:
pass
----------------------------------------------------
To access the settings, e.g.:
----------------------------------------------------
from django.conf import settings
def foobar_view(request):
var1 = settings.FOO.VAR1
var2 = settings.FOO.VAR2
...
----------------------------------------------------
[1] http://code.google.com/p/django-dbpreferences/
Mfg.
Jens
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