#27109: Make Flatpage swappable
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Reporter: vzima | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: contrib.flatpages | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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It's kind of a long shot, but I give it a try.
Let's make `Flatpage` swappable. I've opened a discussion about the
feature at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/WFdCEpB-
fMM/6rRae4QLBgAJ. Despite the little support at developers, I suspect the
swap would be used once available.
There is a number of attempts to extend the flatpages
* #18331
* #23743
* #26762
* https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/hl4dO1Lxi7Y/aE82ZjNxB-cJ
* https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/XluinfrJaK8/5G2ioMt5HVwJ
Since it is not possible to inherit custom `Flatpage` from an abstract
`Flatpage` model, there are two options. Make an extra table which
generates join on every use, which is ineffective, or copy the whole
`Flatpage` application, which is terrible to maintain. There is number of
projects which extends the `Flatpage` by copying the whole model
* https://github.com/danawoodman/django-flatpages-plus
* https://github.com/PragmaticMates/django-flatpages-i18n
* https://github.com/toastdriven/django-superflatpages
* https://github.com/FUUK/fuuk/tree/master/fuuk/fuflatpages
I assume the lack of support at developers mailing list is caused by
developers who needed to extend `Flatpage` already did it one way or
another, it most cases by copying the `flatpages` app as is.
The `swappable` is already implemented, so let's use it.
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