Use Django dumpdata to dump a subset of overall data?

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I'm trying to use dumpdata to generate JSON for a database that is sufficiently large for django to take a long, long time to output. Is there any way to dump only a subset of the fields; say, 100, for testing?

I'm using MySQL and Django 1.0.

possible duplicate of [Django Selective Dumpdata](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8313558/django-selective-dumpdata) — Louis, Aug 31 '15 at 20:10

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '10 at 07:09

A 3rd party django app, django-test-utils contains a makefixture command implementation which is basically a smarter dumpdata. You can specify exact model names with ID ranges to export (and it will follow related objects) Example: manage.py makefixture --format=xml --indent=4 proj.appname.modelname[1:101] > test.xml

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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See also Django Selective Dumpdata which suggests Django Fixture Magic

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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