TemplateCommand

[Christian González]

Hi all,

I recently made a plugin framework for django (GDAPS), and needed to do
some templating. I had seen that there is an undocumented
TemplaceCommand in Django which does, well, what it does.

It is a little opinionated and not very flexible, so I couldn't inherit
from it for my project, but had to reimplement it, more generic.

Now what I thought, wouldn't it be good to have that command available
as base class for other projects as well?

Please have a quick look at this class:

https://gitlab.com/nerdocs/gdaps/-/blob/7a363167ca8e20cdca952187314306874bd93a05/gdaps/management/templates/__init__.py

I used it for generating a new plugin - but due to not needing this any
more in the project's tree (plugins now can be developed outside and
separatedly) I change my templating system to cookiecutter.

But - if you are interested to use that class, replace Django's
TemplateCommand with it and inherit from it, I could bring it into shape.

Please drop me a line.

Best regards, Christian

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Dr. Christian González
https://nerdocs.at

[Adam Johnson]

Django has the TemplateCommand class to support its startproject and startapp. These two are fairly similar so the class exists to share code between them.

As I understand, your GDAPS project aims to provide similar functionality, but with differences. In this case I can see that you'd have overlap with what startproject/startapp already do, but I don't see that as a reason for Django to document or change its TemplateCommand class. If we documented the class, it would become a public API and contribute more to Django's maintenance burden. That doesn't sound worth it for this niche use case. Plus, it's not *that* much code to "take inspiration from" in your own project, test, and change as you see fit.

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[Christian González]

Am 28.06.21 um 10:44 schrieb 'Adam Johnson' via Django developers
(Contributions to Django itself):

> Plus, it's not *that* much code to "take inspiration from" in your own
> project, test, and change as you see fit.

That's true...

;-)