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djangofixtures
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Reputation: 15831

How to write fixtures in python language and not serialized for django?

I have a python file that creates objects with this method Category.objects.create. But I don't know how to run that fixture

Upvotes: 0

Views: 499

Answers (1)

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 308899

Fixtures are serialized. Python code that populates the database is not a fixture.

If you want to populate the database with python code after the it has been created, I suggest you attach your creation function to the post_syncdb signal. Note that the signal is sent per application.

In your callback function, you can check the created_signals parameter, to see which models were created, and check whether you need to create the objects.

As a reference, have a look at the contrib apps that use the post_syncdb signal, for example django.contrib.sites.manage, which creates the default site instance only once.

Upvotes: 2

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