Django snippets: Proper fixtures loading in south data migrations

from django.db import models
from django.core.management import call_command

def load_fixture(file_name, orm):
    original_get_model = models.get_mode
    
    def get_model_southern_style(*args):
        try:
            return orm['.'.join(args)]
        except:
            return original_get_model(*args)
    
    models.get_model = get_model_southern_style
    
    call_command('loaddata', file_name)
    
    models.get_model = original_get_model

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South documentation contains a description of the way you can load fixtures inside the data-migrations.

def forwards(self, orm):
    from django.core.management import call_command
    call_command("loaddata", "my_fixture.json")

It seems pretty clear and easy, but in fact it does not work the way you expect from south migrations, because the fixture loading does not engage the orm object. So, it allows loaddata management command to use standard models loading mechanism, and it would provide the most recent version of the models, obviously, which may not correspond to the schema of the fixture`s data. To be ensured that migration will use appropriate version of the models for fixture loading you could use code like follows:

class Migration(DataMigration):

    def forwards(self, orm):
        load_fixture('my_fixture.json', orm)

Author:: JustDelight
Posted:: February 27, 2013
Language:: Python
Version:: 1.4
Tags:: fixtures migration fixture south datamigration
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