Getting name spaced models inside Django 1.7 migrations

Question

I'm using django-allauth as part of a new project, and I'm trying to make a migration where I set up the initial authentication keys for the social apps.

To do this I need to access a model that is under a namespace of

'allauth.socialaccount', which I also have in my settings.py

However, when I attempt to do the following;

SocialApp = apps.get_model('allauth.socialaccount', 'socialapp')

I end up with Django telling me the app with that name doesn't exist.

I have also tried pretty much every combination of 'allauth', 'socialaccount' and, 'socialapp'

I'm pretty much stuck at this point.

Answer 1

For namespaced models you need to use the final part of the dotted path as the app_label . For allauth.socialaccount that is socialaccount .

>>> apps.get_model('socialaccount', 'SocialApp')
allauth.socialaccount.models.SocialApp

Also don't forget to reference the a migration from the socialaccount app as a dependency, otherwise it won't be available:

dependencies = [
    # ('some_app', 'XXXX_some_pre-requisite_migration'),
    ('socialaccount', '0001_initial'),
]