I have an AppConfig.ready() implementation which depends on the readiness of an other application.
Is there a signal or method (which I could implement) which gets called after all application ready() methods have been called?
I know that django processes the signals in the order of INSTALLED_APPS.
But I don't want to enforce a particular ordering of INSTALLED_APPS.
Example:
INSTALLED_APPS=[
'app_a',
'app_b',
...
]
How can "app_a" receive a signal (or method call) after "app_b" processed AppConfig.ready()?
(reordering INSTALLED_APPS is not a solution)
I'm afraid the answer is No. Populating the application registry happens in django.setup(). If you look at the source code, you will see that neither apps.registry.Apps.populate() nor django.setup() dispatch any signals upon completion.
Here are some ideas:
You could dispatch a custom signal yourself, but that would require that you do that in all entry points of your Django project, e.g. manage.py, wsgi.py and any scripts that use django.setup().
You could connect to request_started and disconnect when your handler is called.
If you are initializing some kind of property, you could defer that initialization until the first access.
If any of these approaches work for you obviously depends on what exactly you are trying to achieve.