Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#20979 closed New feature (wontfix)
Serialize payload of model.FileField when using manage.py dumpdata
| Reported by: | Jacob Rief | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | File uploads/storage | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
I added a useful feature to django-filer, which allows to dump the payload of files together with their meta-data, when running
manage.py dumpdata > dumpfile.json
a dumpfile which later is reimported using
manage.py loaddata dumpfile.json
then also restores the payload of the file on disk, not just the meta-data. This simplifies backups and migrations of projects, since an administrator does not require additional tools such as zip or tar. It also makes backups less error prone, since everything is contained in one single file. In my opinion, such a feature would also be useful for models.FileField and models.ImageField.
If this feature is considered useful enough, I would be pleased to implement it into the Django's main code.
More details here: https://github.com/jrief/django-filer/blob/serialize-payload/docs/dump_payload.rst and here: https://github.com/stefanfoulis/django-filer/pull/335
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think we should be promoting fixtures as a backup strategy though. Having this in a 3rd party package seems like a good fit though.