.. _ref-migrating:

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Migrating to django-comments-xtd
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If your project uses django-contrib-comments you can easily plug django-comments-xtd to add extra functionalities like comment confirmation by mail, comment threading and follow-up notifications.

This section describes how to make django-comments-xtd take over comments support in a project in which django-contrib-comments tables have received data already.


Preparation
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First of all, install django-comments-xtd:

.. code-block:: bash

    cd mysite
    pip install django-comments-xtd

Then edit the settings module and change your :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` so that django_comments_xtd and django_comments are listed in this order. Also change the :setting:`COMMENTS_APP` and add the ``EMAIL_*`` settings to be able to send mail messages:

.. code-block:: python

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...
        'django_comments_xtd',
        'django_comments',
        ...
    ]
    ...
    COMMENTS_APP = 'django_comments_xtd'

    # Either enable sending mail messages to the console:
    EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

    # Or set up the EMAIL_* settings so that Django can send emails:
    EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.mail.com"
    EMAIL_PORT = "587"
    EMAIL_HOST_USER = "alias@mail.com"
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "yourpassword"
    EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
    DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "Helpdesk <helpdesk@yourdomain>"


Edit the urls module of the project and mount django_comments_xtd's URLs in the path in which you had django_comments' URLs, django_comments_xtd's URLs includes django_comments':

.. code-block:: python

    from django.conf.urls import include, url

    urlpatterns = [
        ...
        url(r'^comments/', include('django_comments_xtd.urls')),
        ...
    ]


Now create the tables for django-comments-xtd:

.. code-block:: bash

    python manage.py migrate


Populate comment data
=====================

The following step will populate **XtdComment**'s table with data from the **Comment** model. For that purpose you can use the ``populate_xtdcomments`` management command:

.. code-block:: bash

    python manage.py populate_xtdcomments


You can pass as many DB connections as you have defined in :setting:`DATABASES` and the command will run in each of the databases, populating the **XtdComment**'s table with data from the comments table existing in each database.

Now the project is ready to handle comments with django-comments-xtd.