Apps with name conflict (same tables)

[witt...@gmail.com]

Hi everybody,

I'm currently working on a Mezzanine site and I try to integrate django-lfs into the same Django installation. Both projects use South, but unfortunately with the same app names!

That leads to the situation, that not all tables are created, because somehow migrations are ignored. For example, both projects have a "core" app.

mezzanine/core/migrations

0001_initial.py

0002_auto__del_keyword.py

0003_auto__add_sitepermission.py

0004_set_site_permissions.py

0005_auto__chg_field_sitepermission_user__del_unique_sitepermission_user.py

lfs/core/migrations

0001_initial.py

I guess the South migration "loader" gets confused by that.

(virtualenv)vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-precise-64:/vagrant/src$ python manage.py migrate lfs.core --list

 core

  ( ) 0001_initial

  ( ) 0002_auto__del_keyword

  ( ) 0003_auto__add_sitepermission

  ( ) 0004_set_site_permissions

  ( ) 0005_auto__chg_field_sitepermission_user__del_unique_sitepermission_user

(virtualenv)vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-precise-64:/vagrant/src$ python manage.py migrate mezzanine.core --list

 core

  ( ) 0001_initial

  ( ) 0002_auto__del_keyword

  ( ) 0003_auto__add_sitepermission

  ( ) 0004_set_site_permissions

  ( ) 0005_auto__chg_field_sitepermission_user__del_unique_sitepermission_user

Even if I try to load the migrations for lfs, the wrong migrations from the directory mezzanine.core.migrations are loaded. Is there any chance to solve that naming conflict?

I'm using South 1.0.1 (tried it with 0.8.4 as well).

Cheers,

Christian

[Andrew Godwin]

Hi Christian,

Django actually refers to apps internally by what's called the "app label", which is the last part of the dotted path. Thus, in your case, both apps have an app label of "core" and sadly cannot be in INSTALLED_APPS at the same time.

South is usually the first thing to expose this as you run it early on and it relies on the app labels for distinction, but you'd also have this problem with fixture loading down the line and other parts of Django that use app labels (e.g. content types)

I'm afraid there's no solution apart from renaming one of the apps involved away from "core", or moving up to Django 1.7 where (I believe) you can explicitly set the app label in INSTALLED_APPS by using AppConfig classes rather than dotted paths.

Andrew

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