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[Internal sub-skill of `polylith-migrate-orchestrator`. Do not load directly — load `polylith-migrate-orchestrator` first, which drives all phases.] Update imports in the new base location to reference the new namespace instead of the original namespace.

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Skill: polylith-migrate-automate-import-updates

Goal

Update imports to reference the new namespace instead of the original namespace, ensuring that the codebase remains functional after the namespace migration.

Scope depends on SHIM_STRATEGY (set by polylith-migrate-analyze-imports):

  • shim: rewrite imports in the new base location only — external consumers keep using the original namespace via the shim (phase 4b).
  • shimless: rewrite every reference to the original namespace — base internals, entrypoints / run-scripts, infra (e.g. alembic/env.py), and tests — so nothing imports the old namespace and no shim is needed.

Cover all three reference forms (see polylith-migrate-analyze-imports): dotted from <ns>.<sub> import …, bare-submodule from <ns> import <sub> (incl. multi-name and mixed lines), and quoted string paths (mock.patch("<ns>.x.Y"), logging dict-config). A naive "from <ns>." replace silently misses the bare and quoted forms.

💡 Script the rewrite for anything non-trivial. A small text-in → text-out helper (a pure function: file text + an {old → new} mapping → rewritten text) handles all three forms — including splitting a mixed bare-import line into moved vs. not-moved names — far more reliably than ad-hoc edits across dozens of files. Keep it as plain functions (no classes), run it over bases/, components/, test/, and the project dir, then verify by grepping for any residual <ns> reference. The same helper is reusable for the component-extraction rewrites in polylith-migrate-split-big-component.

Inputs

  • Project name (from migration/<project-name>/state.md)
  • Original namespace (from migration/<project-name>/state.md)
  • New namespace (from migration/<project-name>/state.md)
  • Import analysis report (from migration/<project-name>/import_analysis.md)

Steps

1. Identify files in the new base location importing from the original namespace

  1. Review the import analysis report to identify files in the new base location (at bases/${TARGET_TOP_NS}/${INITIAL_BASE_NAME}/) that import from the original namespace.

2. Update imports to reference the new namespace

  1. For each file in the new base location that imports from the original namespace:
    • Replace from ${ORIG_TOP_NS} import ... with from ${TARGET_TOP_NS}.${INITIAL_BASE_NAME}.<module> import ...
    • Replace import ${ORIG_TOP_NS} with import ${TARGET_TOP_NS}.${INITIAL_BASE_NAME}

Example:

# Before
from myproject.core import MyClass
import myproject.utils

# After
from mynamespace.mybase.core import MyClass
import mynamespace.mybase.utils

3. Record updated files

  1. Record all updated files in migration/${PROJECT}/import_updates.md.

Output

  • Updated files in the new base location
  • A report file: migration/<project-name>/import_updates.md listing all updated files

Verify

  1. Confirm that all files listed in migration/<project-name>/import_updates.md have been updated.
  2. Check that no files in the new base location import from the original namespace.
  3. Verify that the codebase remains functional by running the test command from migration/<project-name>/state.md.

Commit

git add bases/${TARGET_TOP_NS}/${INITIAL_BASE_NAME}/
git add migration/${PROJECT}/import_updates.md
git commit -m "migrate(${PROJECT}): phase <N> — automate-import-updates"

<N> is this phase's number from the polylith-migrate-orchestrator table (the single source of truth) — do not hardcode it.