"Make fixture" command. Highly useful for making test fixtures.
Use it to pick only few items from your data to serialize, restricted by primary keys.
By default command also serializes foreign keys and m2m relations.
You can turn off related items serialization with `--skip-related` option.
How to use:
python manage.py makefixture
will display what models are installed
python manage.py makefixture User[:3]
or
python manage.py makefixture auth.User[:3]
or
python manage.py makefixture django.contrib.auth.User[:3]
will serialize users with ids 1 and 2, with assigned groups, permissions and content types.
python manage.py makefixture YourModel[3] YourModel[6:10]
will serialize YourModel with key 3 and keys 6 to 9 inclusively.
Of course, you can serialize whole tables, and also different tables at once, and use options of dumpdata:
python manage.py makefixture --format=xml --indent=4 YourModel[3] AnotherModel auth.User[:5] auth.Group
- serialize
- admin
- model
- fixtures
- tests
- test
- management
- commands
- fixture
- command
- make
This TestSettingsManager class takes some of the pain out of making temporary changes to settings for the purposes of a unittest or doctest. It will keep track of the original settings and let you easily revert them back when you're done.
It also handles re-syncing the DB if you modify INSTALLED_APPS, which is especially handy if you have some test-only models in tests/models.py. This makes it easy to dynamically get those models synced to the DB before running your tests.
Sample doctest usage, for testing an app called "app_under_test," that has a tests/ sub-module containing a urls.py for testing URLs, a models.py with some testing models, and a templates/ directory with test templates:
>>> from test_utils import TestManager; mgr = TestManager()
>>> import os
>>> mgr.set(INSTALLED_APPS=('django.contrib.contenttypes',
... 'django.contrib.sessions',
... 'django.contrib.auth',
... 'app_under_test',
... 'app_under_test.tests'),
... ROOT_URLCONF='app_under_test.tests.urls',
... TEMPLATE_DIRS=(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
... 'templates'),))
...do your doctests...
>>> mgr.revert()