django-detect-cyclic 0.0.2

Django application to detect cyclic imports

Application to detect cyclic imports. With this application you can analyze the dependence of your applications

Requeriments

• python-graph-core (1.8.1)

• python-graph-dot (1.8.1)

• pysmell (0.7.3)

• pyplete (0.0.1)

Installation

In your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (

    'django_detect_cyclic',

)

Caption

• The nodes are the applications, or the modules of the applications (if you use the option show-modules)

• One edge means that the node source import the node destination

• When there is a cycle the edge has a background color (the same color in all the cycle), and it label contains “Cycle X”

• The label of the edges contains the weight in parentheses

• If you use the options show-modules, each node has a background color. If two nodes are to the same application, they have the same background color.

Possibles Errors

It is possible that the next links are interested if you can some problem:

• http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/issues/detail?id=15

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2133767/using-python-graphviz-importerror-no-module-named-gv

It is possible that you have to remove the pyc files:

find -iname "*.pyc" -exec rm "{}" \;

Usage (Examples)

python manage.py detect_cyclic
python manage.py detect_cyclic --include-apps="app1,app6,app7,app11" --file-name="my_graph.svg" --exclude-packages="migrations,templatetags" --verbosity=2
python manage.py detect_cyclic --include-apps="app1,app6" --show-modules --file-name="my_graph.svg" --exclude-packages="migrations" --verbosity=2
python manage.py detect_cyclic --include-apps="app1,app6" --only-cyclic --file-name="my_graph.svg" --exclude-packages="migrations" --verbosity=2

To see other examples click in examples

Releases

0.0.2 (2012-07-09)

• Documentation and examples

0.0.1 (2012-07-09)

• Initial release.