I'd like to ask another question concerning plugin apps, and hoping your deeper knowledge about Django internals helps here...
I'm implementing the plugin Metadata for GDAPS plugins ATM, and am a bit
concerned wether to implement a construct like the Pretix system or not.
Pretix uses AppConfig classes, and creates a inner PretixPluginMeta
classs where it sums up all the information it needs. It's easy then to
walk all apps and filter out the ones that have a PretixPluginsMeta -
and get their data out.
class PaypalApp(PluginConfig):
name = 'pretix_paypal'
verbose_name = _("PayPal")
class PretixPluginMeta:
name = _("PayPal")
author = _("the pretix team")
version = '1.0.0'
visible = True
restricted = False
description = _("This plugin allows you to receive payments via PayPal")
compatibility = "pretix>=2.7.0"
What I need for a good plugin life cycle are methods, callbacks that are
called when a plugin is "installed" = run the first time, methods for
enabling/disabling etc.
The easiest way would be implementing these methods within the AppConfig
subclass.
I asked myself why is there a PluginMeta needed? Can't I add those data
attributes directly to AppConfig?
So my question on you all is: Is it a good idea to merge those data
deeply with tha AppConfig object? I mean, as a plugin in my sense is
more or less the same as an app, it won't matter. But deeply inside, I
feel that there is something wrong done. Separate concerns should not me
mixed - and I don't know what you want to implement in Django's future
into AppConfig. Maybe there could be conflicts.
Another way would be implementing the methods too into the PluginMeta
object.
May I ask for your opinions here?
And a second question: The DJango docs say, that it's not recommended to
use "default_app_config". But in each and every example, even in the
tutorials and the Django boilerplate code of "./manage.py startproject
foo" are NO Appconfigs addressed in INSTALLED_APPS. Nobody does this, right?
How "obligate" is this recommendation, when noone uses it? Should this
be kept?
Thanks,
Christian
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