Django Natural Key for Fixtures Give Deserialization Error

Question

I\'ve seen a few similar questions to this on SO, but none seem to answer my particular problem. I\'m new to Django and was guiding myself by the instructions at this page t

Answer 1

You need to

• define natural_key method in your models
• have a manager with get_by_natural_key method
• actually attach the managers (objects=GraphManager())

After playing with your code, I made it work:

class GraphTypeManager(models.Manager):
    def get_by_natural_key(self, type):
        return self.get(type=type)

class GraphType(models.Model):
    type = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True)
    objects = GraphTypeManager()

    def natural_key(self):
        return (self.type,)  # must return a tuple

class GraphManager(models.Manager):
    def get_by_natural_key(self, name):
        return self.get(name=name)

class Graph(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True)
    type = models.ForeignKey(GraphType)
    objects = GraphManager()

Dumping the data:

$ bin/django dumpdata index --indent=4 --natural > project/apps/fixtures_dev/initial_data.json
[
    {
        "pk": 1,
        "model": "index.graphtype",
        "fields": {
            "type": "asotuh"
        }
    },
    {
        "pk": 1,
        "model": "index.graph",
        "fields": {
            "type": [
                "asotuh"
            ],
            "name": "saoneuht"
        }
    }
]

bin/django loaddata project/apps/fixtures_dev/initial_data.json 
Installed 2 object(s) from 1 fixture(s)