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| author | Pavel Kulikov <kulikovpavel@gmail.com> | 2017-03-26 22:29:05 +0300 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2017-05-26 19:54:21 -0400 |
| commit | af1fa5e7da21c57a4037e67f93493af4e78d454a (patch) | |
| tree | 459e2342f0431a83f9915dffee09cf89fa54bc16 /docs | |
| parent | c930c241f8f1ccf3a7848b843628eacdb983d70a (diff) | |
Fixed #27978 -- Allowed loaddata to read data from stdin.
Thanks Squareweave for the django-loaddata-stdin project from which this
is adapted.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/django-admin.txt | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/2.0.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt index 2de0ab6a8b..68fb762623 100644 --- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt +++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt @@ -416,6 +416,14 @@ originally generated. Specifies a single app to look for fixtures in rather than looking in all apps. +.. django-admin-option:: --format FORMAT + +.. versionadded:: 2.0 + +Specifies the :ref:`serialization format <serialization-formats>` (e.g., +``json`` or ``xml``) for fixtures :ref:`read from stdin +<loading-fixtures-stdin>`. + .. django-admin-option:: --exclude EXCLUDE, -e EXCLUDE .. versionadded:: 1.11 @@ -552,6 +560,27 @@ defined, name the fixture ``mydata.master.json`` or ``mydata.master.json.gz`` and the fixture will only be loaded when you specify you want to load data into the ``master`` database. +.. _loading-fixtures-stdin: + +Loading fixtures from ``stdin`` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. versionadded:: 2.0 + +You can use a dash as the fixture name to load input from ``sys.stdin``. For +example:: + + django-admin loaddata --format=json - + +When reading from ``stdin``, the :option:`--format <loaddata --format>` option +is required to specify the :ref:`serialization format <serialization-formats>` +of the input (e.g., ``json`` or ``xml``). + +Loading from ``stdin`` is useful with standard input and output redirections. +For example:: + + django-admin dumpdata --format=json --database=test app_label.ModelName | django-admin loaddata --format=json --database=prod - + ``makemessages`` ---------------- diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.txt b/docs/releases/2.0.txt index 186f64319d..de5b38a098 100644 --- a/docs/releases/2.0.txt +++ b/docs/releases/2.0.txt @@ -185,6 +185,8 @@ Management Commands * The new :option:`makemessages --add-location` option controls the comment format in PO files. +* :djadmin:`loaddata` can now :ref:`read from stdin <loading-fixtures-stdin>`. + Migrations ~~~~~~~~~~ |