How to use django AppConfig.ready()

Question

I can't seem to get my ready function under my AppConfig to work.

Here is my code from apps.py:

from django.apps import AppConfig

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db.models.signals import post_save, post_delete
from django.db.models import Max, Count
from .models import Player, PlayerStats, TotalLevels

class BloxorsConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'bloxors'

    def ready(self):
        MaxCurrentLevel = PlayerStats.objects.aggregate(max_levels=Max('level_no'))['max_levels']
        PlayerCount = Player.objects.aggregate(count_players=Count('player_name', distinct=True))['count_players']
        print(MaxCurrentLevel, PlayerCount)

I read in the documentation that ready() gets called each time at the beginning of manage.py runserver but then why does nothing happen. Ideally I was expecting it to print the two values MaxCurrentLevel, PlayerCount.

Can someone point out what I am doing wrong and help solve this?

As always, I greatly appreciate your answers!

Try print("Test") within `ready` for debugging purposes please to see if it calls the function at all — JSRB, Dec 07 '19 at 11:38

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 07 '19 at 12:07

Ok this was a bit stupid of me in the first place, but I found the answer and to anyone else that would like it, here it is!

Under INSTALLED_APPS: I had installed my app as: 'bloxors'

but apparently in the documentation (after a decent amount of digging), You need to actually specify it as:

'bloxors.apps.BloxorsConfig'

The reason given was because, there is no default AppConfig set by django and it is upto the user to do so, which I wasn't aware of, so here you go!

How to use django AppConfig.ready()

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