Chris Pratt - Latest Comments in A Django Snippet to Refresh Your Database

Re: A Django Snippet to Refresh Your Database

Pach — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:47:41 -0000

http://code.google.com/p/dj...

Re: A Django Snippet to Refresh Your Database

bomboze — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:50:08 -0000

Slight correction to first comment (from Keats) - there's a typo - it should be "loaddata" (double d).

Re: A Django Snippet to Refresh Your Database

Chris Pratt — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:03:28 -0000

Well, I feel a little stupid ;). But that's why I posted this. Thanks for the tips.

Re: A Django Snippet to Refresh Your Database

Keats — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:30:07 -0000

you could have done it with a shell script
like this :
#!/bin/sh
./manage.py dumpdata >> blabla.json
./manage.py flush
./manage.py loadata blabla.json

or simply by adding a setting
FIXTURE_DIRS = (
'/home/keats/fixtures',
)

then ./manage.py dumpdata >> /home/keats/fixtures/initial_data.json

now each time you call :
./manage.py flush
it will flush the database and automatically reload the data in the initial_data.json
the name of the file is important

you can also add sql directory in application directory
the syntax is sql/model_name.json or .sql
and it will be loaded each time you flush your database