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A fixture is a collection of data that Django knows how to import into a database, can be written as XML, YAML, or JSON documents. They can be used to provide initial data for models.

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Load Multiple Fixtures at Once

Is there anyway to load one fixture and have it load multiple fixtures? I'd ideally like to type: python manage.py loaddata all_fixtures And have that load all of the data instead of having to type everything. Is this possible?
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IntegrityError when loading fixture during django testing

I'm loading a fixture created with dumpdata, and getting the following exception: Problem installing fixture 'db_dump.json': Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py",…
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Images in Django fixtures?

I was looking at Django fixtures in the docs, there was no mention of preloading images into the database. I can't be the only who needed to do this. Is this possible? If so how? If not, are there any workarounds available? Please and thank you.
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How can I create prettier fixtures with manage.py dumpdata?

I'm trying to get my Django fixtures printed in a prettier way. I've outputting the fixtures: python manage.py dumpdata >> fixture_app.json This creates a file with 1000's of characters all on one line. When I try to view the file with my Text…
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How to add superuser in Django from fixture

How to add SUPERuser(not just user) through Django fixtures? Let's say I wanna have login:admin, password:admin.
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How can I make a fixture out of QuerySet in django?

Django dumpdata command is broken because it does not support any reasonable way to narrow down the amount of data dumped. I need to create a fixture of various querysets (and I don't need to take care about dumping objects from outer models…
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Django Sites Framework: Initial Data Migration Location

Before Django 1.7, when using the Django Sites Framework one could/should define the initial data using Initial Fixtures. myproject/fixtures/initial_data.json [ { "pk": 1, "model": "sites.site", "fields": { "domain":…
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Is DateTimeField with auto_now_add option enabled must has value in fixtures

I have model created field configurated as follows: created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) In JSON fixtures I don't want to declare value for created, but when I try to load fixtures (loadata) I am getting error: created may not be…
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Django loaddata ignore existing objects

I have a fixture with list of entries. eg: [ { "fields": { "currency": 1, "price": "99.99", "product_variant": 1 }, "model": "products.productprice", "pk": 1 }, { "fields": { "currency": 2, …
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Django 1.4: How to ignore fields, models in loaddata

We have a compressed dumpdata of 15MB upload extracting goes to 100MB. It has few models & fields that are not used in current tables. Specifically, there are few contenttypes models which can be ignored, and one field field_ that can be ignored in…
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Django Test Complaining about Fixture

Dumped data python manage.py dumpdata --format json --indent 4 --exclude auth.permission --exclude contenttypes > app/fixtures/app_test_data.json Running python manage.py test app, I get the following error: IntegrityError: Problem installing…
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Django testing and ContentType generic relatations fixtures

How do I use GenericRelations in Django unit testing? I have read and tried countless suggestions on the internets to no avail. This one was promising Problems with contenttypes when loading a fixture in Django but "reset" command is no longer…
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Migrating django admin auth.groups and users to a new database using fixtures

Here's the scenario: I'm using django's admin interface and I would like to be able to load users and groups via fixtures (if this is possible.) I'm able to dump users/groups like so: manage.py dumpdata auth auth.group > usersandgroups.json But…
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Django, generic relations, make fixtures

I'm trying to add generic relations and one-to-one relations support for django-test-utils makefixture command, here is the source http://github.com/ericholscher/django-test-utils/blob/master/test_utils/management/commands/makefixture.py Does…
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How to create per-project initial_data fixtures in Django 1.7+

Before Django 1.7 I used to define a per-project fixtures directory in the settings: FIXTURE_DIRS = ('myproject/fixtures',) and use that to place my initial_data.json fixture storing the default groups essential for the whole project. This has been…
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