Contract and dependencies

Every feature declares what it provides, requires, and allows to be overridden — all in pyproject.toml.

Table of contents

Feature contract
Extension points
Dependency rules
Naming conventions
Creating a feature
See also

Feature contract

[tool.splent.contract]
description = "Authentication feature"

[tool.splent.contract.provides]
routes       = ["/login", "/logout", "/signup/"]
blueprints   = ["auth_bp"]
models       = ["User"]
commands     = []
hooks        = ["layout.anonymous_sidebar"]
services     = ["AuthenticationService"]
signals      = ["user-registered"]
translations = ["es"]
docker       = []

[tool.splent.contract.requires]
features   = []
env_vars   = ["SECRET_KEY"]
signals    = []

The contract is auto-generated by feature:contract --write and updated during feature:release. If config.py is missing, feature:contract --write prompts to run feature:inject-config.

Extension points

Features declare which parts are safe to override:

[tool.splent.contract.extensible]
services   = ["AuthenticationService"]
models     = ["User"]
templates  = ["auth/login_form.html"]
hooks      = ["layout.anonymous_sidebar"]
routes     = true

Auto-inferred from source code during release. See Extension points.

Dependency rules

Features declare dependencies via the UVL model. The fundamental rule:

If A depends on B (A => B), then A may import from B, but B must never import from A.

Allowed	Forbidden
`profile` imports from `auth`	`auth` imports from `profile`
`confirmemail` imports from `mail`	`mail` imports from `confirmemail`

For upstream communication, use signals — never direct imports.

Validate with:

splent product:validate

Naming conventions

Element	Convention	Example
Package name	`splent_feature_<name>`	`splent_feature_auth`
Namespace	`splent_io`	`splent_io.splent_feature_auth`
Blueprint	`<name>_bp`	`auth_bp`
Template dir	`templates/<name>/`	`templates/auth/`
Bundle file	`<name>.bundle.js`	`auth.bundle.js`
Seeder class	`<Name>Seeder`	`AuthSeeder`
Service class	`<Name>Service`	`AuthenticationService`

Creating a feature

splent feature:create splent-io/splent_feature_notes

Scaffolds the full directory structure. See feature:create.