Marcus Christie created AIRAVATA-2934:
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Summary: Dynamically load Django apps into the Django portal
Key: AIRAVATA-2934
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-2934
Project: Airavata
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Django Portal
Reporter: Marcus Christie
Develop a mechanism for automatically including Django apps that are installed
in the Django portal's virtual environment.
The mechanism that seems most promising is to make use of entry points which I
[wrote about in this blog
post|https://marcus.4christies.com/2018/10/dynamically-including-django-apps-using-entry-points/].
The entry point could register the AppConfig object of the Django app.
This would allow the Django portal to:
* loop over these Django apps and add them to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py
* add these apps to the urls.py url mappings
In addition there is some metadata what would be useful for the AppConfig to
provide:
* {{url_home}} - the home url of the app so that it can be linked to. In
builtin Django apps in the Airavata portal, this is used to build the links to
the various apps.
* {{app_order}} - the order of the app in dynamically built list of apps
* {{fa_icon_class}} - FontAwesome icon class to use for the app
* {{app_description}} - Longer description of the app
This metadata would be in addition to [{{name}}, {{label}} and
{{verbose_name}}, which are built in properties of
AppConfig|https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/applications/#application-configuration].
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