From 727fe78d8b517b904b95dd7271c22bd720f872e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roberto Rosario <roberto.rosario.gonzalez@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 02:16:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add check for app references

Point users to release notes for details when app references are not updated.
GitLab issue #603. Thanks to Vikas Kedia (@vikaskedia) for the report.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Rosario <roberto.rosario.gonzalez@gmail.com>
---
 HISTORY.rst             |  2 ++
 docs/releases/3.2.1.rst |  2 ++
 mayan/settings/base.py  | 12 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 71b8464bb9..44350cd130 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 * Use YAML SafeDumper to avoid adding YAML datatype tags.
   Closes GitLab issue #599. Thanks to Frédéric Sheedy
   (@fsheedy) for the report and debug information.
+* Add check for app references and point users to release notes for details.
+  GitLab issue #603. Thanks to Vikas Kedia (@vikaskedia) for the report.
 
 3.2 (2019-06-13)
 ================
diff --git a/docs/releases/3.2.1.rst b/docs/releases/3.2.1.rst
index b598fbd408..717c4be86e 100644
--- a/docs/releases/3.2.1.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/3.2.1.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Changes
 - Use YAML SafeDumper to avoid adding YAML datatype tags.
   Closes GitLab issue #599. Thanks to Frédéric Sheedy
   (@fsheedy) for the report and debug information.
+- Add check for app references and point users to release notes for details.
+  GitLab issue #603. Thanks to Vikas Kedia (@vikaskedia) for the report.
 
 
 Removals
diff --git a/mayan/settings/base.py b/mayan/settings/base.py
index 9591f913a4..f2cd8f833b 100644
--- a/mayan/settings/base.py
+++ b/mayan/settings/base.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import os
 import sys
 
+from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 import environ
@@ -355,6 +356,9 @@ else:
         }
     }
 
+
+BASE_INSTALLED_APPS = INSTALLED_APPS
+
 CONFIGURATION_FILEPATH = os.path.join(MEDIA_ROOT, CONFIGURATION_FILENAME)
 CONFIGURATION_LAST_GOOD_FILEPATH = os.path.join(
     MEDIA_ROOT, CONFIGURATION_LAST_GOOD_FILENAME
@@ -364,3 +368,11 @@ if 'revertsettings' not in sys.argv:
     result = read_configuration_file(CONFIGURATION_FILEPATH)
     if result:
         globals().update(result)
+
+
+for app in INSTALLED_APPS:
+    if 'mayan.apps.{}'.format(app) in BASE_INSTALLED_APPS:
+        raise ImproperlyConfigured(
+            'Update the app references in the file config.yml as detailed '
+            'in https://docs.mayan-edms.com/releases/3.2.html#backward-incompatible-changes'
+        )