Django South Migration To Access Flatpages App

Question

I am trying to access the Flatpages models in a South migration like so:

s = orm['flatpages.Site'].objects.get(id=10)
f = orm['flatpages.FlatPage'].objects.get(id=10)

I get errors saying that site and flatpage models are not available in the flatpages app. So what am I doing wrong?

did you run syncdb after including flatpages in `installed_apps`? — karthikr, Nov 02 '13 at 03:28
the flatpages app itself is working fine it is the migration where I am having the issue — Alex, Nov 02 '13 at 03:33
does `./manage.py sql flatpages` show the sql for `Site` and `FlatPage`? Can you import the models into the shell console and create them? — Henry Florence, Nov 02 '13 at 09:39
I have not tried the manage sql flatpages command but I have imported FlatPages and Site in the shell and everything works fine. — Alex, Nov 02 '13 at 13:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 26 '14 at 20:14

You can't access it via South's orm object, but you can break the recommendation and import the model directly if you're simply looking to force a data migration, e.g.,

from south.db import db
from south.v2 import DataMigration
from django.db import models

from django.contrib.flatpages.models import FlatPage
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site

class Migration(DataMigration):

    def forwards(self, orm):
        site = Site.objects.get_current()
        f = FlatPage.objects.create(
            title="Page Name",
            url="/url/",
            content="..."
        )
        f.sites.add(site)
        f.save()

This is the way I ended up doing it but it is frowned upon according to the South docs and comments that are generated in the migration. — Alex, Aug 27 '14 at 14:55

Django South Migration To Access Flatpages App

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