Suggestion: class based / type-hinted / enumerated settings with default values.

[gregorpirgie]

I suggest to look into a pragmatic solution to re-implement our django-settings-file in a way so that we (ideally) get:

• type hinting
• available options
• clear default values
• docstrings

... from our IDE.

Possible candidates:

• django-pydantic-settings
• pydjantic

Or consider a custom implementation that fits our use case.

[koeaw]

Just found djantic, would this cover the same use case?

[sennierer]

decided to evaluate the different approaches for settings (including django-environ) related to acdh-oeaw/apis-acdhch-default-settings#48

[koeaw]

There's also django-ninja, which seems to do more than what was suggested in this ticket.

Summary: "Django Ninja is a web framework for building APIs with Django and Python 3.6+ type hints."