Django dump data for a single model?

Can I perform a dumpdata in Django on just a single model, rather than the whole app, and if so, how?

For an app it would be:

python manage.py dumpdata myapp

However, I want some specific model, such as "myapp.mymodel" to be dumped. The reason being, I have some huge, 3 million records plus, datasets in the same app that I would not like dumped.

As of version 1.1 and greater, the Django dumpdata management command allows you to dump data from individual tables:

./manage.py dumpdata myapp1 myapp2.my_model

You can also separate multiple apps and models on the command line. Here's the canonical definition:

django-admin dumpdata [app_label[.ModelName] [app_label[.ModelName] ...]]

As noted, you can't do this through a manage.py command in Django 1.0. However you could use a script to export the JSON file, and load it using loaddata:

from django.core import serializers
from myproject.myapp import models
data = serializers.serialize("json", models.MyModel.objects.all())
out = open("mymodel.json", "w")
out.write(data)
out.close()

A specific model to a specific file:

python manage.py dumpdata app_label.ModelName > specific_file.json

and to load it to another app: first move or copy the file to the app where you want process it, then:

python manage.py loaddata specific_file.json

Take all data into json format from django model.

Syntax:

python manage.py dumpdata app_name.model_name

For example dumping data from group_permission model which reside in default auth app in django.

python manage.py dumpdata auth.group_permission

For output take a look on console.

I think you had the solution in your question. You can dump an individual model like this:

./manage.py dumpdata myapp.my_model

For success I had to say it twice, and specify the model two times, like:

./manage.py dumpdata myapp2.my_model myapp2.my_model

If I only said

./manage.py dumpdata myapp2 myapp2.my_model

I got flooded with all the models in myapp2, despite the fact that I specified my_model.

As a workaround you could make another app and copy the model but point it to the existing table with the db_table meta option. Then you could just dump the models you copied into the new app. You existing app wouldn't be affected.

I've created a management command the generate a fixture on a per model basis. Fixtures can be generated by running:

./manage generate_fixtures app.model.MyModel --file=dump/MyModel.json

code at: https://gist.github.com/2394883

To write it on specific file:

python manage.py dumpdata app_label.ModelName app_label.ModelName2 > fixtures/specic.json

If you want to dump only the specified objects of a model, you can use the --pks optional argument for the dumpdata command.

> --pks PRIMARY_KEYS Outputs only the objects specified by a comma separated list of primary keys. This is only available when dumping > one model. By default, all the records of the model are output.

For newbies in Django and Python like me, this might be useful:

if you want to only dump a single row (of, obviously, a single table) and you have for example the app "merchant" and the model is also named "Merchant", and you usually import it using a fully qualified name like this: merchant.models.Merchant; do not even try to use this name. The syntax is as follows:

# only dumps the merchant with id = 123, pretty printed
python manage.py dumpdata merchant.Merchant --pks 123 --indent 2

For DUMPING data out of the specific model for specific APP.

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If we take EXAMPLE where we have in a MAIN PROJECT (We go call it project) and in this MAIN PROJECT we have two (02) others applications (We go call each app like this APP1 and APP2) we can do like that

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1. python manage.py dumpdata APP1.name_of_model >APP1/fixtures/name_of_model .json
2. python manage.py dumpdata APP2.name_of_model >APP2/fixtures/name_of_model .json