Techniques to declare settings in a third party Django library

• django-cors-headers

  10 5,263 8.4 Python

  Django app for handling the server headers required for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

This is a solution I found when looking at the source code of the well known package Django Corsheaders. It is very, very simple. Just define a wrapper over the django.conf.settings, and specify a property per each setting that your library allows to customize.

• django-rest-framework-simplejwt

  18 3,809 6.5 Python

  A JSON Web Token authentication plugin for the Django REST Framework.

  

I'm not going to go in-depth with it, but I've seen a different technique used to achieve the same result in the SimpleJWT project that can be found in this file in the source code. Basically the technique relies on the settings_changed signal to establish default values for settings and update those settings in the context of the package. I'm not sure if there is a massive improvement on this approach over the previous one (maybe caching?), but if there is, feel free to comment.

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