Re: Data migration using RunPython

On 03/05/2015 10:01 AM, Murthy Sandeep wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> Two further questions if you don't mind:
>
> 1. I am in the Python interpreter and am working with
> one of my db models called SmallGroup.
>
> When I do SmallGroup.objects.all() I get the following message:
>
> File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
> File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 119, in __repr__
> return repr(data)
> File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 458, in __repr__
> u = six.text_type(self)
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, SmallGroup found
>
> Does this have something to do with the method `__str__` which I added
> to this model in my `models.py`? I don't think I did a 'python manage.py migrate' after
> the change though.

There's two problems yeah, you didn't run your migrations, and maybe
you have unicode encoding problem.
Please, check the documentation on migration[1] and unicode[2].

>
> 2. If I want to modify or delete entries in the db table SmallGroup are there
> methods corresponding to `bulk_create` for doing this? Something like
>
> Country.objects.using(db_alias).bulk_update( <list> )
>
> Country.objects.using(db_alias).bulk_delete( <list> )
>
> ?

You have all you need in the documentation [3].
You have the .update and .delete methods on a queryset.

> Thanks again in advance.
>
> Sandeep

[1] migrations: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/migrations/
[2] unicode with python 2: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html
[3] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/db/queries/

>> On 5 Mar 2015, at 19:34, aRkadeFR <contact@arkade.info> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In Django, you can instanciate objects from your model without
>> persist it to the database. The way you do it is Country(name=..., ...).
>>
>> In order to create multiple objects at once, you can
>> call the bulk_create method on the manager with a list
>> of object to persist.
>>
>> The using(db_alias) is instanciating the manager.
>> I won't explain further cause my knowledge of this area
>> is reduced.
>>
>> Have a good one
>>
>> On 03/05/2015 01:20 AM, Murthy Sandeep wrote:
>>> I am working on a data migration for my Django app to populate
>>> the main table in the db with data that will form the mainstay of
>>> the app - this is persistent/permanent data that may added to but
>>> never deleted.
>>>
>>> My reference is the Django 1.7 documentation and in particular an
>>> example on page
>>>
>>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/migration-operations/#django.db.migrations.operations.RunPython
>>>
>>> with a custom method called forward_funcs:
>>>
>>> def forwards_func(apps, schema_editor):
>>>
>>> # We get the model from the versioned app registry;
>>> # if we directly import it, it'll be the wrong version
>>>
>>>
>>> Country = apps.get_model("myapp", "Country")
>>> db_alias = schema_editor.connection.alias
>>> Country.objects.using(db_alias).bulk_create([
>>> Country(name="USA", code="us"),
>>> Country(name="France", code="fr"),])
>>>
>>> I was wondering if someone could please explain what is happening
>>> here and how this method works - is the argument to bulk_create a
>>> list of namedtuple objects called Country or are these Country model
>>> objects?
>>>
>>> Also could someone please explain what db_alias is?
>>>
>>> Sandeep
>>>
>>>
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