Django 1.9 deprecation warnings app_label

Question

I\'ve just updated to Django v1.8, and testing my local setup before updating my project and I\'ve had a deprecation warning that I\'ve never seen before, nor does it make a

Answer 1

The easiest and simplest way to solve this is to place the "import signals" command at the BOTTOM of the Model file you are working with. This ensures that the models are all loaded before the signals for that model are imported. You would have to do this for each model you are importing (if you use receivers linked to particular models), or in the models.py for the app that comes at the end of the "installed apps" in your settings.

The other solutions are only required if you are dealing with non-model type signals, where the models will never be imported first.

Why this is not noted in the docs is a mystery, because I just got caught by it, until I remembered that you have to do that.

models.py

from django.db import models

class MyModel(models.Model):
    myfield1 = models.CharField()
    myfield2 = models.CharField()

import signals

And then in signals.py:

from django.db.models.signals import pre_save # Or whatever you are using
from django.dispatch import receiver

from .models import MyModel

@receiver(pre_save, sender=MyModel)
def my_receiver(sender, instance, **kwargs):
    mysender = sender
    print mysender

Like that.