django-import-export: cannot exclude id field during import : KeyError: u'id'

Question

On Django-1.9.6, django-import-export-0.5

When I try to upload CSV without \"id\" field throws this error.

Line number: 1 - u\'id\'
13173474, Harry          


        

Answer 1

The id field is an auto increment field, so if you're adding new records (I believe its the most case) the id field should be there in the header (first line of csv file) and the rest of the rows should contain empty id like : ,

Example:

CSV File:
id, username,email,password
,ahmad,ahmad@all.com,secretum
,salafi,salafi@gmail.com,Passhdjdj

In the Resource file (py):
class JasResult(ImportExportModelAdmin):
    resource_class = JasResource
    skip_unchanged = True
    report_skipped = True
    exclude = ('id',)
    import_id_fields = ('username','email','password')

This should fine for most cases.