edan_f0/docs/source/topics/customisation.rst

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Customising Oscar
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Many parts of Oscar can be adapted to your needs like any other Django
application:

* Many :doc:`settings</ref/settings>` control Oscar's behavior
* The looks can be controlled by extending or overriding the
  :doc:`templates </howto/how_to_customise_templates>`

But as Oscar is built as a highly customisable and extendable framework, it
doesn't stop there. The behaviour of all Oscar apps can heavily be altered
by injecting your own code.

To extend the behavior of an Oscar core app, it needs to be forked, which is
achieved with a simple management command. Afterwards, you should
generally be able to override any class/model/view by just dropping it
in the right place and giving it the same name.

In some cases, customising is slightly more involved. The following how-tos
give plenty of examples for specific use cases:

* :doc:`/howto/how_to_customise_models`
* :doc:`/howto/how_to_change_a_url`
* :doc:`/howto/how_to_customise_a_view`

For a deeper understanding of customising Oscar, the following documents are
recommended:

* :doc:`/internals/design-decisions`
* :doc:`Dynamic class loading</topics/class_loading_explained>`
* :doc:`fork_app`

Fork the Oscar app
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If this is the first time you're forking an Oscar app, you'll need to create
a root module under which all your forked apps will live::

    $ mkdir yourproject
    $ touch yourproject/__init__.py

Now you call the helper management command which creates some basic files for
you. It is explained in detail in :doc:`fork_app`. Run it like this::

    $ ./manage.py oscar_fork_app order yourproject/
    Creating folder apps/order
    Creating __init__.py and admin.py
    Creating models.py and copying migrations from [...] to [...]

Replace Oscar's app with your own in ``INSTALLED_APPS``
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You will need to let Django know that you replaced one of Oscar's core
apps. You can do that by supplying an extra argument to
``get_core_apps`` function::

    # settings.py

    from oscar import get_core_apps
    # ...
    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        # all your non-Oscar apps
    ] + get_core_apps(['yourproject.order'])

``get_core_apps([])`` will return a list of Oscar core apps. If you supply a
list of additional apps, they will be used to replace the Oscar core apps.
In the above example, ``yourproject.order`` will be returned instead of
``oscar.apps.order``.

Start customising!
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You can now override every class (that is
:doc:`dynamically loaded </topics/class_loading_explained>`, which is
almost every class) in the app you've replaced. That means forms,
views, strategies, etc. All you usually need to do is give it the same name
and place it in a module with the same name.

Suppose you want to alter the way order numbers are generated.  By default,
the class ``oscar.apps.order.utils.OrderNumberGenerator`` is used. So just
create a class within your ``order`` app which
matches the module path from oscar: ``order.utils.OrderNumberGenerator``.  This
could subclass the class from Oscar or not::

    # yourproject/order/utils.py

    from oscar.apps.order.utils import OrderNumberGenerator as CoreOrderNumberGenerator


    class OrderNumberGenerator(CoreOrderNumberGenerator):

        def order_number(self, basket=None):
            num = super(OrderNumberGenerator, self).order_number(basket)
            return "SHOP-%s" % num