Loading docs/howto/initial-data.txt +6 −4 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ Providing initial data with fixtures A fixture is a collection of data that Django knows how to import into a database. The most straightforward way of creating a fixture if you've already got some data is to use the :djadmin:`manage.py dumpdata <dumpdata>` command. Or, you can write fixtures by hand; fixtures can be written as XML, YAML, or JSON documents. The :doc:`serialization documentation </topics/serialization>` has more details about each of these supported :ref:`serialization formats <serialization-formats>`. Or, you can write fixtures by hand; fixtures can be written as JSON, XML or YAML (with PyYAML_ installed) documents. The :doc:`serialization documentation </topics/serialization>` has more details about each of these supported :ref:`serialization formats <serialization-formats>`. .. _PyYAML: http://www.pyyaml.org/ As an example, though, here's what a fixture for a simple ``Person`` model might look like in JSON: Loading Loading
docs/howto/initial-data.txt +6 −4 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ Providing initial data with fixtures A fixture is a collection of data that Django knows how to import into a database. The most straightforward way of creating a fixture if you've already got some data is to use the :djadmin:`manage.py dumpdata <dumpdata>` command. Or, you can write fixtures by hand; fixtures can be written as XML, YAML, or JSON documents. The :doc:`serialization documentation </topics/serialization>` has more details about each of these supported :ref:`serialization formats <serialization-formats>`. Or, you can write fixtures by hand; fixtures can be written as JSON, XML or YAML (with PyYAML_ installed) documents. The :doc:`serialization documentation </topics/serialization>` has more details about each of these supported :ref:`serialization formats <serialization-formats>`. .. _PyYAML: http://www.pyyaml.org/ As an example, though, here's what a fixture for a simple ``Person`` model might look like in JSON: Loading