Merge pull request #511 from girardinsamuel/fix/510

Fix using PackageProvider without installing package locally

src/masonite/packages/providers/PackageProvider.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 from ...utils.time import migration_timestamp
 from ...routes import Route
 from ...utils.structures import load
+from ...utils.str import modularize
 from ...utils.filesystem import make_directory
 
 from ..reserved_names import PACKAGE_RESERVED_NAMES
@@ -59,9 +60,20 @@ def publish(self, resources, dry=False):
  return published_resources
 
  def root(self, relative_dir):
- module = load(relative_dir)
- self.package.module_root = relative_dir
- self.package.abs_root = dirname(module.__file__)
+ """Define python package module root path and absolute package root path.
+ It works when installing the package locally with: pip install . or pip install -e .
+ and when installing the package from production release with: pip install package-name
+ """
+ # load module provider
+ provider_module = load(self.__module__)
+ # get relative module path to package root
+ relative_module_path = modularize(relative_dir)
+ self.package.module_root = self.__module__[
+ 0 : self.__module__.find(relative_module_path) + len(relative_module_path)
+ ]
+ self.package.abs_root = provider_module.__file__[
+ 0 : provider_module.__file__.find(relative_dir) + len(relative_dir)
+ ]
  return self
 
  def name(self, name):