如何为模型提供初始数据
- 使用迁移提供初始数据
- 使用固定数据提供数据
  - 告诉 Django 在哪里查找固定数据文件

如何为模型提供初始数据

在初次设置应用程序时，使用硬编码数据预填充数据库有时是很有用的。您可以使用迁移或固定数据来提供初始数据。

使用迁移提供初始数据

To automatically load initial data for an app, create a data migration. Migrations are run when setting up the test database, so the data will be available there, subject to some limitations.

使用固定数据提供数据

You can also provide data using fixtures, however, this data isn’t loaded automatically, except if you use TransactionTestCase.fixtures.

固定内容是一个 Django 知道如何导入数据库的集合。若你已有一些可用数据，最直接的创建固定内容的方式是使用 manage.py dumpdata 命令。或者，你可以手写固定内容；固定数据能被写作 JSON，XML 或 YAML （要求已安装 PyYAML）文档。序列化文档拥有更多这些支持的序列化格式的细节信息。

举个例子，这有一个固定内容，描述了一个 Person 模型写成 JSON 后的样子：

[
  {
    "model": "myapp.person",
    "pk": 1,
    "fields": {
      "first_name": "John",
      "last_name": "Lennon"
    }
  },
  {
    "model": "myapp.person",
    "pk": 2,
    "fields": {
      "first_name": "Paul",
      "last_name": "McCartney"
    }
  }
]

以下是一样的固定内容，YAML 格式：

- model: myapp.person
  pk: 1
  fields:
    first_name: John
    last_name: Lennon
- model: myapp.person
  pk: 2
  fields:
    first_name: Paul
    last_name: McCartney

你会将该数据存入应用中的 fixtures 字典。

You can load data by calling manage.py loaddata <fixturename>, where <fixturename> is the name of the fixture file you’ve created. Each time you run loaddata, the data will be read from the fixture and reloaded into the database. Note this means that if you change one of the rows created by a fixture and then run loaddata again, you’ll wipe out any changes you’ve made.

告诉 Django 在哪里查找固定数据文件

By default, Django looks for fixtures in the fixtures directory inside each app for, so the command loaddata sample will find the file my_app/fixtures/sample.json. This works with relative paths as well, so loaddata my_app/sample will find the file my_app/fixtures/my_app/sample.json.

Django also looks for fixtures in the list of directories provided in the FIXTURE_DIRS setting.

To completely prevent default search form happening, use an absolute path to specify the location of your fixture file, e.g. loaddata /path/to/sample.

为你的固定数据文件设置命名空间

Django will use the first fixture file it finds whose name matches, so if you have fixture files with the same name in different applications, you will be unable to distinguish between them in your loaddata commands. The easiest way to avoid this problem is by namespacing your fixture files. That is, by putting them inside a directory named for their application, as in the relative path example above.

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