On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:06:38PM -0700, Kegan wrote: >> 1. Use Django's management command "dumpdata" to get the JSON >> representative of an app. Save the JSON into a file (oldmodel.json). >> 2. Git pull the latest code. And do a reset to the app. So the >> database will have the new model schema now. >> 3. Use the python shell to migrate the JSON file to match the new >> model representation. Save the new JSON into a file (newmodel.json). >> 4. Use management command "loaddata" to populate the new model with >> the newmodel.json. > > I tried this at one stage, and it seemed fine, until I realized non-ascii > (UTF8 > I think) characters were being siliently currupted.
This is exactly the kind of comment I referred to in my original reply. It's not fair on the Django developers or the Django community to start spreading rumours that Django corrupts data if you're not willing to follow up and actually document the problem you are having. I am not aware of any corruption that happens to non-ascii characters as a result of using loaddata/dumpdata. There are test cases that specifically validate the serialization of non-ascii characters across all the serializers. I don't doubt that you experienced a problem. I would be the last person to claim that loaddata/dumpdata is infallible. However, we can't fix problems we don't know about. If you're going to start throwing around claims that loaddata/dumpdata doesn't work, you _really_ need to back them up with a demonstrated example that proves your claim. We provide Trac for precisely this reason, and you will find that claims of data corruption are taken very seriously by the core developers. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
