docs: Add comprehensive fixture support documentation #791
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Add Comprehensive Fixture Support Documentation
Users reported difficulty using Django's loaddata command with polymorphic models. While the documentation mentioned using --natural-primary and --natural-foreign flags with dumpdata , there was no guidance on:
How to properly create fixtures for polymorphic models
How to load fixtures with loaddata
What to do if polymorphic_ctype
references are incorrect after loading
Solution
This PR adds comprehensive documentationfor fixture support with polymorphic models.
advanced.rst
Added new section "Working with Fixtures" with:
Creating fixtures with dumpdata --natural-primary --natural-foreign
Loading fixtures with loaddata
Using reset_polymorphic_ctype() utility to fix incorrect references
Example fixture JSON format with natural keys
Data migration example for fixing imported data
quickstart.rst
Enhanced the existing note about fixtures with:
Closes #513