django-staging allows you to easily manage your fixtures for testing or staging server

Installation

Add 'staging' to your INSTALLED_APPS and this to settings.py:

import os

def rel(*x):
    return os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), *x)

FIXTURE_DIRS = (
    rel('fixtures'),
)

In order to use visual fixtures generation feature in Django1.7+, 'staging' app should be placed before 'django.contrib.admin' in INSTALLED_APPS.

Usage

save_staging command saves data from your database to fixtures:

$ ./manage.py save_staging auth main
$ ./manage.py save_staging auth.User main

Fixtures are saved in fixtures folder of your project's application or in 'fixtures' folder in your project, with prefix 'staging_'. All files from FileField or ImageField are saved in MEDIA_ROOT+'staging' folder, so you should not worry that files' urls are broken.

load_staging load all saved fixtures to your database:

$ ./manage.py load_staging

'reset_staging' command recreate your database and load all saved fixtures:

$ ./manage.py reset_staging

Fixtures prefix

You can use option --env to save and load fixtures for some enviroment. load_staging load at first all staging fixtures, then fixtures saved with same --env option.

Configuration

STAGING_MEDIA_PATH - folder in MEDIA_ROOT where files are saved. Default value is 'staging'.

Visual fixtures generation

staging_generator command runs development server on 8000 port for localhost. If you access Django admin application using server started this way, you will see extra "Bulk data generation" button next to "Add object". It links to the page where you can define rules for bulk objects generation. Objects created in admin then can be saved to fixtures using save_staging command.

Examples are below:

$ ./manage.py staging_generator

You can add your own generators. More details on generator attributes/methods in staging/generators/example.py. Generators are automatically loaded on start from this locations:

• generators directory in staging application
• path specified in GENERATORS_DIR environmental variable
• path specified with --generators-dir option for staging_generator command