I think that you have to indicate app_label in your separate model
file
According to:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/models/options/
class MyTestModel(models.Model):
field1=models.CharField(max_length=12)
field2=models.CharField(max_length=12)
class Meta:
app_label = sql
regards.
On 5 jun, 09:43, Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verhe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as the title says, in a new project (django trunk), my model isn't found by
> syncdb.
> However, when I run a shell_plus (I use django extensions), then I can import
> it without a problem.
> So from sql.models.mytestmodel import MyTestModel works.
> syncdb doens't produce any errors, it just doesn't find the model.
>
> I usually split my models in seperate files and import them in the
> __init__.py file in the same
> directory as the models. The command is the same as described above.
>
> from sql.models.mytestmodel import MyTestModel
>
> It's also the first time I am laying out my project in a different way. My
> project layout looks like this.
> In the project directory, I have a directory apps where the apps of the
> project are placed.
> Then inside the sql app, I have a forms, models and views directory.
> In the models directory I have the __init__.py with the aformetioned import
> line.
>
> adminsql
> ├── adminsql
> │ ├── apps
> │ │ └── sql
> │ │ ├── forms
> │ │ ├── models
> │ │ │ ├── __init__.py
> │ │ │ ├── mytestmodel.py
> │ │ ├── tests.py
> │ │ ├── urls.py
> │ │ └── views
> │ │ ├── __init__.py
> │ │ ├── views_test.py
> │ ├── __init__.py
> │ ├── settings_dev.py
> │ ├── settings.py
> │ ├── templates
> │ │ ├── adminsql
> │ │ └── sql
> │ │ └── test.html
> │ ├── urls.py
> │ ├── wsgi.py
> ├── deploy
> ├── docs
> ├── logs
> ├── manage.py
> ├── media
> ├── README
> ├── static
>
> The models is nothing special as this project is a test app to port my
> multiprocess program to Django
> with celery.
>
> from django.db import models
> class MyTestModel(models.Model):
> field1=models.CharField(max_length=12)
> field2=models.CharField(max_length=12)
>
> In my settings.py:
> ...
> # Add apps to the path, so the sql app is found
> project_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
> app_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(project_path,"apps"))
> sys.path.append(app_path)
> ...
> INSTALLED_APPS = (
> ...
> 'sql',
> )
>
> All works, I can run the code in a browser, only the part fails where a
> result is written to the db
> because of course the model related table doesn't exist.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Benedict
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