django-fixture-media

Renamed 11/21/2013

Simple tool to manage media files for fixtures. Contributions welcome.

Put relative paths in your fixtures, put your media files in a media directory in you fixtures directory.

Run collectmedia and your fixture media will be copied to MEDIA_ROOT.

YMMV

Only supports JSON fixtures.

Installation

Using pip:

pip install django-fixture-media

Add 'fixture_media' to your installed apps.

Manual install:

Download the source code and run python setup.py install within the directory

Add 'fixture_media' to your installed apps.

Usage

1. Add relative paths to your fixtures for file / image fields.

    [
        {
            "pk": 1,
            "model": "myapp.mymodel",
            "fields": {
                "name": "Awesome Sauce",
                "image": "images/awesome-sauce.jpg"
            }
        }
    ]
   

2. Add a media directory in your fixtures directory. Add the matching child directories to match the path in the fixture and place your media file in the appropriate location.

    myapp/
        models.py
        fixtures/
            initial_data.json
            media/
                images/
                    awesome-sauce.jpg
   

3. Run django-admin.py collectmedia or manage.py collectmedia

    ./manage.py collectmedia
    This will overwrite any existing files. Proceed? yes
    Copied images/awesome-sauce.jpg to /tmp/django_media/images/awesome-sauce.jpg
   

CONFIGURATION

• FIXTURE_MEDIA_REQUIRE_PREFIX (default: False)

  By default, the management command will try to copy everything that resembles a file path; if you have a lot of entries in your fixtures that looks like file paths but is not actually one, you can specify FIXTURE_MEDIA_REQUIRE_PREFIX = True in settings.py to make ./manage.py collectmedia copy only files that are prefixed with media://.

  Example:

    [
        {
            "pk": 1,
            "model": "myapp.mymodel",
            "fields": {
                "name": "Awesome Sauce",
                "image": "media://images/awesome-sauce.jpg"
                "path": "this/is/ignored/awesome-sauce.jpg"
            }
        }
    ]
  

Thanks

lieryan swiharta

TODO

• Add tests.
• Convert to better command modeled after the excellent staticfiles app.