So about a year ago I started a project and like all new developers I didn't really focus too much on the structure, however now I am further along with Django it has started to appear that my project layout mainly my models are horrible in structure.
I have models mainly held in a single app and really most of these models should be in their own individual apps, I did try and resolve this and move them with south however I found it tricky and really difficult due to foreign keys ect.
However due to Django 1.7 and built in support for migrations is there a better way to do this now?
I am removing the old answer as may result in data loss. As ozan mentioned, we can create 2 migrations one in each app. The comments below this post refer to my old answer.
First migration to remove model from 1st app.
$ python manage.py makemigrations old_app --empty
Edit migration file to include these operations.
class Migration(migrations.Migration):
database_operations = [migrations.AlterModelTable('TheModel', 'newapp_themodel')]
state_operations = [migrations.DeleteModel('TheModel')]
operations = [
migrations.SeparateDatabaseAndState(
database_operations=database_operations,
state_operations=state_operations)
]
Second migration which depends on first migration and create the new table in 2nd app. After moving model code to 2nd app
$ python manage.py makemigrations new_app
and edit migration file to something like this.
class Migration(migrations.Migration):
dependencies = [
('old_app', 'above_migration')
]
state_operations = [
migrations.CreateModel(
name='TheModel',
fields=[
('id', models.AutoField(verbose_name='ID', serialize=False, auto_created=True, primary_key=True)),
],
options={
'db_table': 'newapp_themodel',
},
bases=(models.Model,),
)
]
operations = [
migrations.SeparateDatabaseAndState(state_operations=state_operations)
]