Django app not detected on runserver

[mikemenard]

Hi, i have create a django app that I installed using pip.

Following the doc (Open edX development — Tutor documentation), i manage to make it work but on local only. The urls and config are detected from the setup.py of my app following this doc (edx-django-utils/README.rst at master · edx/edx-django-utils · GitHub)

I have rebuild both openedx and openedx-dev.

When i run tutor local start: I can access the urls of my new app.
When i run tutor dev runserver lms: I have a 404 on my app urls.

I have try to tutor dev run lms bash and then import my app from the django shell.
It does not work.

It is possible that the /build/openedx/requirements folder was only copy in the openedx image and not the openedx-dev one ?

Thanks for you help.

[mikemenard]

Ok, here is what I did to make my custom Django app working in dev mode "(tutor dev runserver lms).

First, i wanted to see if the “requirements” folder containing my apps and the “private.txt” file was in the container and yes it was there.

So i did a “pip freeze” inside the dev container and i notice that my app was not pip installed.

So I “pip install -r …/requirements/private.txt”.

Now everything work in dev mode. I can develop my app without having to build the image all the time!

Should we run the pip install from the openedx-dev/DockerFile ?

It will be nice to not have to go inside the dev container to install the private requirements.

[regis]

@mikemenard

I have rebuild both openedx and openedx-dev.

These steps should have taken care of installing your package in the openedx and openedx-dev images. Are you quite sure that the images were properly rebuilt?

[mikemenard]

Yes, I also tried with --no-cache, rebuilt after docker prune, building openedx-dev before openedx.

Each time, the private.txt requirements was not installed in the openedx-dev.

It was working on the openedx image only.

[regis]

What’s the name of your python package? Could it be that it is being overwritten by an upstream package in edx-platform/requirements/edx/development.txt?

[mikemenard]

I don’t think so…

[regis]

And what’s the name of the package, as defined in ./teacheroedx-users/setup.py (or setup.cfg)?

[mikemenard]

[regis]

I don’t understand what is going on. If your requirements are in the “openedx” Docker image, they should also be in “openedx-dev”. Can you tell us a little about your environment? OS, tutor version, etc. Also, can you paste the entire output of tutor images build openedx-dev?