Auto-importing models feature for shell-command

[Salvo Polizzi]

This would be an update of the existing Django shell that auto-imports models for you from your app/project. Also, the goal would be to allow the user to subclass this shell to customize its behavior and import extra things.

• wiki
• ​proposal

[Sarah Boyce <42296566+sarahboyce@…>]

In dfac15d5:

Fixed #35517, Refs #35515 -- Improved test coverage of shell command.

[Sarah Boyce]

Discussion to decide on whether to have additional imports (and which ones): ​https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/default-automatic-imports-in-the-shell/33708

[Sarah Boyce]

Based off the discussion, it looks likely there will be additional imports added

[Sarah Boyce]

Agreed that the outcome of the discussion can be captured in a new ticket and worked on later

[Sarah Boyce]

Want to make sure we're happy with what gets printed to the console

[Natalia Bidart]

Related ticket about extra coverage for the shell command: #35517

[Natalia Bidart]

Updating ticket based on recent conversations in the forum.

[GitHub <noreply@…>]

In fc28550:

Fixed #35515 -- Added automatic model imports to shell management command.

Thanks to Bhuvnesh Sharma and Adam Johnson for mentoring this Google
Summer of Code 2024 project. Thanks to Sarah Boyce, David Smith, Jacob
Walls and Natalia Bidart for reviews.

[nessita <124304+nessita@…>]

In 3839afb:

Refs #35515 -- Added missing docs for --no-imports flag for the shell command.

[nessita <124304+nessita@…>]

In 44ccd203:

Refs #35515 -- Refactored internal get_and_report_namespace in the shell command.

[nessita <124304+nessita@…>]

In 0597e8ad:

Refs #35515 -- Fixed shell command verbose output when auto-importing 0 or 1 object.

Co-authored-by: Salvo Polizzi <salvopolizzi03@…>

[Natalia <124304+nessita@…>]

In 0125bc1:

[5.2.x] Refs #35515 -- Added missing docs for --no-imports flag for the shell command.

Backport of 3839afb63ad5183cdf08e06e3a43a014ca4b7263 from main.

[Natalia <124304+nessita@…>]

In 7b0c587a:

[5.2.x] Refs #35515 -- Refactored internal get_and_report_namespace in the shell command.

Backport of 44ccd20375ba0d4da869ef994bc10a2311e9dc88 from main.

[Natalia <124304+nessita@…>]

In 16c7dc5:

[5.2.x] Refs #35515 -- Fixed shell command verbose output when auto-importing 0 or 1 object.

Co-authored-by: Salvo Polizzi <salvopolizzi03@…>

Backport of 0597e8ad1e55b565292ead732916aa0e39bdf37b from main.