django-agilesites 1.0.2

Dynamic switching of the settings.SIDE_ID for a Django Project

Django Agile Sites (django_agilesites)

This provides django the ability of dynamic switching of the settings.SIDE_ID. This allows you to then alter the template paths based on the SITE_ID by referencing settings.SITE_FOLDERS.

The way this works is first by dynamically setting (thread-safe) the settings.SITE_ID based on the request.get_host() (which is based in part on request.META['HTTP_HOST']). Once the SITE_ID is established, then it uses that to dynamically look up any template path folder structure you define.

Example / Setup

Lets assume we want to have all traffic going to //beta.foo.com to use our new templates tree called 'beta' for a new template app_detail.html. This app will allows you to place the following templates folder structure in your app to achieve this:

app/
    templates/
        app/
            app_detail.html
            app_list.html
        beta/
            app_detail.html

We need to reference the two sites in question - so in the sites app assume the following. SITE_ID: 1 domain: foo.com SITE_ID: 2 domain: beta.foo.com

Now to enable this to work you need to do the following:

1. Add the django_agilesites to the settings.INSTALLED_APPS

2. Add the django_agilesites.loaders.AgileSiteAppDirectoriesFinder to the settings.TEMPLATE_LOADERS. I put it first.

3. Add the django_agilesites.middleware.AgileSitesMiddleware' to the settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

4. Add the following settings to reference the folder beta.

   SITE_FOLDERS = { 2: 'beta', }

That's it.

Now when you go to //beta.foo.com/app/detail you will use the template in the beta tree and when you go to the list view on beta it will refer to the parent app_list.html.

Notes:

1. You do NOT need to reference the SITE_ID 1 as there isn't a path change for that.

2. You don't have to put every url. We also support the notion of aliases through the use of settings.SITE_ALIASES dictionary. This will force //beta.bar.com to also use the beta templates.

   SITE_ALIASES = { 'beta.bar.com': 2, }

Build Process:

1. Update the __version_info__ inside of the application. Commit and push.
2. Tag the release with the version. git tag <version> -m "Release"; git push --tags
3. Build the release rm -rf dist build *egg-info; python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
4. Upload the data twine upload dist/*

Have fun!