A fixture is intended to be a full and complete copy of what you want in the database, including *all* date/timestamps. If you want data to be created with creation/update times that reflect the time at which the test was executed, then you need to create that data in the setUp() method of your test, or use the setUp() method to modify the object loaded by the fixture.
Yours, Russ Magee %-) On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Reikje <reik.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok so bottomline is, you have to add values for this kind of fields if > you want to use the fixture from both, tests and loaddata? > > On Oct 3, 10:53 am, Phang Mulianto <braveh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> i think bcoz load data does not use the orm api..while your test use orm to >> insert data.. >> On Oct 3, 2011 3:43 PM, "Reikje" <reik.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, I have >> a test fixture file which I use in unit tests. In some >> > Models I have date fields defined like this: >> > models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) for which I don't specify >> > values in the fixture file (users.json). This works well as part of >> > testing but when I want to load the fixture into the real database >> > using the loaddata command, it will complain about these fields being >> > null, i.e. Warning: Column 'last_seen_at' cannot be null >> >> > Whats the difference between running the fixture file as part of the >> > test suite and loading it using loaddata. I guess I can work around >> > this by adding values for these fields but I am lazy :) >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> >> "Django users" group.> To post to this group, send email to >> django-users@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.> For more options, visit this >> group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
