autoload models into the container

[josephmancuso]

we can set a location to look for models in the configuration setting:

MODELS_LOCATION = [
    '/app',
    '/some/other/location/models'
]

and we can look in that directory, get all the modules and classes, check they are an instance on model and load them into the container with their .__name__

[josephmancuso]

so what I actually built here was a whole autoloader.

We can do something like this in our application/config.py:

AUTOLOAD = [
    'app',
    'app/models'
]

and when we first start the server, it will look through both directories, find all the classes in the directory and autoload them into the container and bind the name of the class and the class into the container. So with a structure like:

app/
    http/
    providers/
    models/
        Blog.py # contains 2 classes: Blog and Time
        Author.py
    Post.py
    User.py

Running this autoloader:

AUTOLOAD = [
    'app',
    'app/models'
]

will be the equivalent of this:

from app.models import Blog, Author
from app import Post, User

self.app.bind('Blog', Blog.Blog)
self.app.bind('Time', Blog.Time)
self.app.bind('Author', Author)
self.app.bind('Post', Post)
self.app.bind('User', User)

but it will be done automatically. We'll also be able to load all classes in a single module:

AUTOLOAD = [
    'app/User'
]

which will load all the classes in app/User.py. There should only be 1 class in there by convention but some developers may wish to do multiple classes just because of how Python developers are.