#29554: Missing feature: load apps dynamically at runtime
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Reporter: Christian González | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Core (Other) | Version: 2.0
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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I stumbled upon a problem I am not able to solve, and I think this is a
feature that should be in Django core AFAIKT.
Until Django 1.x it was possible to add apps dynamically to INSTALLED_APPS
during runtime, and reload the cache, see here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19833393/django-dynamically-add-apps-
as-plugin-building-urls-and-other-settings-automat
Even if I think this is a bit of a hack and it was never really meant that
way (?), nevertheless there should be an official possibility to do so.
I have made a Django application with dynamically apps at server startup
time - this is no problem, just search for a plugins dir during
settings.py and add the dotted paths to INSTALLED_APPS. Works fine, but
one problem remains:
If I want to enable dynamic app installation - like an "app store" in my
application - users can download apps from my "store", and enable them
using my web interface - there currently is no way to achieve that besides
restarting the Django server, right?
During setup, Apps.populate() is called - and its docstring says that the
method is idempotent. Is it possible/allowed/recommended to add some paths
to django.conf.settings.INSTALLED_APPS and call that populate() again
later during runtime?
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29554>
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