Enhance reload mechanism to support dependencies between files

[insertjokehere]

The automatic reload mechanism in appdaemon in cool, but doesn't support one of the most compelling use cases for appdaemon vs HAs built in automations: code reuse.

For example: I have a utils.py file that contains some utility functions that are used across several of my apps, like so:

-- utils.py --

class BaseApp(appapi.AppDaemon):
    def do_a_thing(self):
        self.foo()

-- lights.py --

from utils import BaseApp

class FunLights(BaseApp):

    def on_lights_on(self, kwargs):
        self.do_a_thing()

At the moment, if I change lights.py, everything is reloaded as expected (good) but if I change utils.py appdaemon doesn't recognize that it needs to reload lights.py as well (bad)

It would be really awesome if appdaemon would recognize (automatically? specially formed docstring?) that if utils.py changes, it also needs to reload lights.py

Thanks

[acockburn]

This is an excellent idea - how about listing dependencies for an APP in the configuration file?

[snairolf]

There should be a way figuring it out based on the imports? Maybe https://pypi.python.org/pypi/modulegraph/ F

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[acockburn]

Added in next release.