How do I populate the test database created while testing the Django test cases with the values from some other database(for ex: the Production database.)
In detail:
when I run the below command,
$ python manage.py test a test data base is created for the testing purpose, but it doesn't have any data in it. I want the test database created to be populated with some initial values.
Thanks..
You can use dumpdata to get a file with data from your live db.
Then you can load data from a file automatically for a test (see Django tests):
from django.test import TestCase from django.core.management import call_command class Tests(TestCase): @classmethod def setUpTestData(cls): call_command('loaddata', 'myfile', verbosity=0) You may use django fixtures to populate your test database.
Create a fixture of your production db and write it to some file
python manage.py dumpdata > backup.json You can populate your test database using this command
python manage.py loaddata backup.json if you want to do this by running python manage.py test then you should write custom django-admin commands
You want to check out fixtures. Here's a link to docs page: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/initial-data/
Basically you might want to dump your current database for testing purposes, so you'd do something like:
python manage.py dumpdata Then you want to place your file in a directory that Django will look for fixtures. You can either specify it in settings with FIXTURE_DIRS variable or use default. The default is simply inside a fixtures directory in your Django app.
