Thank you for the replies. *members* and *posts* are the names of my apps.
The first line of the XML file when I open it in Notepad says:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
The JSON file has no distinguishable first line, it just starts right away
with the data.
On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 1:45:44 AM UTC+2, jorr...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I want to dump and load data for two apps that I have. Using dumpdata
> works fine:
>
> python manage.py dumpdata members posts > data.json
>
> or
>
> python manage.py dumpdata members posts --format=xml > data.xml
>
> However, when I try to load the same data back with loaddata I get the
> following errors:
>
> With JSON:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py",
> line 353, in ex
> utility.execute()
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py",
> line 345, in ex
> self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
> line 348, in run_fr
> self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
> line 399, in execut
> output = self.handle(*args, **options)
> File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py"
> , line 6
> self.loaddata(fixture_labels)
> File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py"
> , line 1
> self.load_label(fixture_label)
> File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py"
> , line 1
> for obj in objects:
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\json.py",
> line 76, in Deseri
> stream_or_string = stream_or_string.decode('utf-8')
> File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
> return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0:
> invalid start byte
>
>
>
> With XML:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py",
> line 353, in execute_from_comman
> utility.execute()
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py",
> line 345, in execute
> self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
> line 348, in run_from_argv
> self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
> line 399, in execute
> output = self.handle(*args, **options)
> File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py"
> , line 60, in handle
> self.loaddata(fixture_labels)
> File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py"
> , line 100, in loaddata
> self.load_label(fixture_label)
> File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py"
> , line 152, in load_label
> for obj in objects:
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\six.py", line 558, in
> next
> return type(self).__next__(self)
> File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\xml_serializer.py",
> line 174, in __next__
> for event, node in self.event_stream:
> File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\dom\pulldom.py", line 232, in next
> rc = self.getEvent()
> File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\dom\pulldom.py", line 265, in getEvent
> self.parser.feed(buf)
> File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 217, in feed
> self._err_handler.fatalError(exc)
> File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\sax\handler.py", line 38, in fatalError
> raise exception
> xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException: <unknown>:1:31: encoding specified
> in XML declaration is incorrect
>
> What gives?
>
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