Django: Can I have an app in a sub folder of another app?
django
Solution
Django loads models by importing the `models` module of every package in the `INSTALLED_APPS` setting. For example, with an `INSTALLED_APPS` setting of `('django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.comments', 'spam.ham', and 'eggs')`, Django will import models from `django.contrib.admin.models`, `django.contrib.comments.models`, `spam.ham.models`, and `eggs.models`.
If you are only listing your outer app in `INSTALLED_APPS` (we'll assume it's named `eggs`), then only the models from `eggs.models` are being imported and created. To get the models installed from your inner app, you will need to add it to the `INSTALLED_APPS` as well, like `eggs.inner_app`, so that `eggs.inner_app.models` will get imported. (To facilitate foreign keys, I'm pretty sure that if you import models from one app into another's `models.py` file, only the models defined in the `models.py` file being scanned get created.)
Problem
I tried to put an app inside another app (Outer one is a facade into the inner one so it made sense to locate them that way), and it doesn't create a table for the model in that inner app. Is this normal? (the app is installed, and registered with the admin)