added a REQUIRED_HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS to settings of applications in order to define dedicated indexes

Author: albanm

djity/application_skeleton/{package_name}/settings.py_tmpl

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 # These apps will automatically be added to the INSTALLED_APPS
 # of a Djity instance that uses this Djity application
 REQUIRED_APPS = []
+
+# These haystack connections will automatically be added to the HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS
+# of a Djity instance that uses this Djity application
+# this parameter is only useful for applications that require dedicated indexes,
+# if you only wish to index the content of your application to be searchable in djity integrated search engine just have a look at search_indexes.py
+
+REQUIRED_HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {{}}

djity/project_skeleton/settings.py_tmpl

@@ -273,9 +273,15 @@ for app in DJITY_APPS:
     try:
         required_apps = import_module(app+'.settings').REQUIRED_APPS
         INSTALLED_APPS += required_apps
+        info("REQUIRED_APPS parameter found in %s.settings, add \"%s\" to list of INSTALLED_APPS" % (app,",".join(required_apps)))
     except:
-        warn("no REQUIRED_APPS parameter found in %s.settings" % app)
-        continue
+        pass
+    try:
+        required_haystack_connections = import_module(app+'settings').REQUIRED_HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS
+        HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS.update(required_haystack_connections)
+        info("REQUIRED_HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS parameter found in %s.settings, add \"%s\" to dictionary of HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS" % (app,",".join(required_haystack_connections.keys)))
+    except:
+        pass
 
 # import and overwrite all settings defined locally
 try: