Sorry folks, something weird is going on with my email - I'm able to
send emails but I don't receive them from the list, so I never got
your replied (and it would have saved me a long time searching!!!!)
Thanks for your replies
On Dec 14, 8:56 am, "Tane Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Managed to fix it. Had a hunt in the django code for what the admin
> modules does and discovered the Model.objects.get_or_create function.
> Now works perfectly!
>
> On 13/12/2007, Tane Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Ok, I've modified this slightly, however still cannot get this to
> > work. To test it, I put a print statement at the top of the function
> > and called syncdb, and sure enough the function was being called 8
> > times!
>
> > So, I modified it so each import is a function, and each has it's own
> > dispatcher with a sender (being IssueType, IssueSeverity and
> > IssueStatus) - however when the models are created they don't get
> > called. Take the sender away and each function gets called 8 times -
> > very strange.
>
> > Can anyone help?????
>
> > On 13/12/2007, Tane Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
>
> > > In our app, we're building a simple Issue list app, and within the app
> > > we want to add some basic entries for issue type, issue status and
> > > issue severity. Within our /issue directory, I have created a
> > > management.py file and added this:
>
> > > from django.dispatch import dispatcher
> > > from django.db.models import signals
>
> > > from hgfront.issue.models import *
>
> > > def init_issues_database():
> > > """This injects the database with default values for issues"""
> > > issue_types = (
> > > ('Bug', 0),
> > > ('Enhancment', 1),
> > > ('Feature Request', 2),
> > > ('Typo', 3)
> > > )
> > > for issue in issue_types:
> > > p = IssueType(title = issue[0], order=issue[1])
> > > p.save()
>
> > > sev_types = (
> > > ('Minor', 0),
> > > ('Medium', 1),
> > > ('Major', 2),
> > > ('Critical', 3),
> > > ('Blocker', 4)
> > > )
> > > for sev in sev_types:
> > > s = IssueSeverity(title = sev[0], order=sev[1])
> > > s.save()
>
> > > status_types = (
> > > ('Raised', 0),
> > > ('Accepted', 1),
> > > ('Not Accepted', 2),
> > > ('Fixed', 3),
> > > ('Works For Me', 4)
> > > )
> > > for status in status_types:
> > > t = IssueStatus(title = status[0], order=status[1])
> > > t.save()
>
> > > dispatcher.connect(init_issues_database, signal=signals.post_syncdb)
>
> > > The problem is, when I do syncdb, the items do get added to the
> > > database, but for issue_types instead of just 4 entries, 36 entries go
> > > in. For sev_types and status_types 40 entries go in each instead of
> > > 5. From what I can work out, it seems to be looping and adding a full
> > > entry for each item within the tuples.
>
> > > Cannot work this one out at all so either - a) it's a bug or b) we're
> > > using management.py wrong, and if so can anyone please point us in the
> > > right direction and I can't find any docs on it.
>
> > > --
> > > Tane Piper
> > > Blog -http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk
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>
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> > --
> > Tane Piper
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>
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>
> --
> Tane Piper
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>
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