Reverse failing (NoReverseMatch) for newly added apphooks

Steps

Add an apphook to a (published) Django-CMS page. The application is added only once. The model of that application uses reverse() for its get_absolute_url() override.

Expecting

Should work, and it works after restarting the server that was started in via runserver

Actual

When running LiveServerTestCase that import those pages via fixtures, or when adding the apphook the first time and before restarting the server, it’ll fail on page load (the actual page calling reverse) with:

NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'XXX' with arguments '('123')' and keyword arguments '{}' not found. 0 pattern(s) tried: []

Environment

• Linux
• django-cms==3.0.1
• Django==1.6.4

catalog/cms_app.py

class CatalogApphook(CMSApp):
    name = _("XXX")
    urls = ["catalog.urls"]

apphook_pool.register(CatalogApphook)

catalog/url.py

from django.conf.urls import url, patterns

urlpatterns = patterns('catalog.views',
    url(r'^([\w-]{1,40})/$', 'catalog'),
)

url.py

urlpatterns = i18n_patterns('',
    url(r'^accounts/login/$', login),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
) + static(
    settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT
)

[wernight]

I saw a similar page but saying “When you run manage.py runserver a restart should not be needed.” at http://django-cms.readthedocs.org/en/3.0.1/extending_cms/app_integration.html#automatically-restart-server-on-apphook-changes

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll try those functions. There are clear_app_resolvers() and clear_url_caches() calls all over the place; It would be good to simplify this by one of:

• Just working without further work while testing
• Requiring tests to derive from another base class
• Simplifying the functions required to be called on setup.

[wernight]

Thanks. Actually both looked kind of related but the second is really what I want.