SEARCH_EXPORT_LIMIT in settings.py ignored by whatever in Arches frontend system settings

[whatisgalen]

Whatever value you set in your project settings.py file e.g. SEARCH_EXPORT_LIMIT = 500000 gets ignored by the value in the tile nested under Arches System Settings:

[jacobtylerwalls]

Hey @whatisgalen, I asked a related question during a recent standup. (I can't remember if you were on the call that day.)

I heard that, contrary to the docstring in the SystemSettings class, the system setting tiles are always supposed to override the settings.py settings. It's a bug that this only happens correctly when running under wsgi.py instead the devserver as described in #11660.

There were also some murmurs about decoupling the Django settings from the configurable settings / system settings graph in a future version.

Given that, isn't this expected behavior?

[jacobtylerwalls]

The inheritance order is clarified here