Proper fixtures loading in south data migrations
South documentation [contains a description](http://south.readthedocs.org/en/0.7.6/fixtures.html#fixtures-from-migrations) 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) class Migration(DataMigration): def forwards(self, orm): with southern_models(orm): call_command("loaddata", "my_fixture.json")
- fixtures
- migration
- fixture
- south
- datamigration