About a Pattern for Reusable App Configuration
Here is a simple pattern to app-specific configurations that can be overwritten in the project settings:
# myapp/conf.py
from django.conf import settings
_MYAPP_DEFAULTS = {
"USE_FOR_ANONYMOUS_USERS": False,
"USE_FOR_AUTHENTICATED_USERS": True,
}
class AppSettings:
def __getattr__(self, name):
return getattr(settings, "MYAPP", {}).get(name, _MYAPP_DEFAULTS[name])
app_settings = AppSettings()
Then you can use the app_settings in your app as shown here:
from myapp.conf import app_settings
if app_settings.USE_FOR_ANONYMOUS_USERS:
print("Anonymous visitors will see this")
And you can change the settings per project as follows:
# myproject/settings/base.py
MYAPP = {
"USE_FOR_ANONYMOUS_USERS": True,
}
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