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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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How to make my test fixtures loaded only while testing in Django?

I have a Django project with production fixtures and testing fixtures. How to make testing fixtures loaded only while running tests?
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how to use variables in django fixtures YAML file

I am using django fixture, i want to use variable in Yaml file ,Here is an example. - model: taskmanagement.mailsettings pk: 1 fields: username: asdfgh password: %x I want to encrypt the password. and here i want to use x as a…
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Can I process Django fixture data before it is written to the database?

Let us say you have a simple model with a mandatory foreign key: class Pupil(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=40) teacher = models.ForeignKey(Teacher) I want to load Pupil instances from a fixture file but add a default…
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Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s) not reading FIXTURE_DIRS correctly

Here are my settings FIXTURE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "fixtures",) ) $ python manage.py diffsettings | grep fixtures FIXTURE_DIRS = '/home/user/project/src/fixtures' What is strange when I run syncdb I get the following. It…
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django: factory boy in south datamigrations?

In the past we used south datamigrations to update the data in tables. For fixtures we want to use factory boy in the future. Inside a south datamigration I have only the orm, and must not import the real models. Is it possible to use factory boy…
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Cannot load fixtures when testing Django

I hope not to make a fool of myself by re-asking this question, but I just can't figure out why my fixtures are not loaded when running test. I am using python 2.7.5 and Django 1.5.3. I can load my fixtures with python manage.py testserver…
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Error loading django fixtures

I have two sets of fixtures, Person.json and Movies.json. The Person fixture basically have this format: { "pk": 1, "model": "data.Person", "fields": { "full": "Anna-Varney", "num": "I", "short": "Anna-Varney" } …
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Couldn't load fixtures with South in Django project

I've Django project which is using South application to handle schema and data migration. In one of my applications I have migration (number 0004) which is responsible for loading data fixtures from json file: class Migration(DataMigration): …
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How to instantiate class by package_name.module_name.class_name "path"

I want to implement something a bit similar to django fixture system where in fixture you set model property which indicates a model class of fixture. It looks something like this my_app.models.my_model My question is what is the standard way to…
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Django Admin: Why are some fields showing up empty?

I have a Django blog with a "Post" model like so: class Post(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=1000) author = models.CharField(max_length=200) pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published') text =…
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Fixtures in raw Python?

Is there a way to have fixtures in raw Python to, for example, create initial data from external files? I have fixtures in JSON presently, and it might actually be more effective to migrate them to a kind of CSV file and have Python parse these and…
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Django, applications with fixtures

I am writing Django app, it is an admin interface based on jQuery Grid Plugin. Now i want to make demo of this app and to allow experiments with different data, and of course just to test it. Do you guys know any django applications with predefined…
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Django testing: How to get a database with ONLY fixture data and no IntegrityErrors (by diagnosing the source of errors)?

I'm trying to run tests with fixture data, and getting the infamous IntegrityError: column user_id is not unique error. Now, looking at my fixtures, I can see that the ids of my User models in my fixture are unique between each other. I infer that…
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syncdb not adding fixtures in 3rd party project

I've written a pretty simple Django application called django-locality which takes the headache out of working with countries and territories. It provides a lot of initial data for countries and territories. I just the 0.1 release up to PyPI, and…
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While testing routes of my django prodject, i got Type error: expected sting or bites like object. How i can fix this error?

The page of the published news on my blog, is available to any user. I use pytest to check if the page is accessible to an anonymous user. Url is formed by using the id of the news, which I pass in the address parameters (as a tuple). In the result…
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