Django: Getting Started Transcripts
Chapter: DB Migrations
Lecture: An initial migration script
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To demonstrate how migration files work. I've created a new app to store music in our library.
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You know the deal here, management command to create the app and add it to settings. This is the models.py file.
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It's pretty basic, a model called song with one character field for the title. With the model ready, all run make migrations.
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Notice how that created the migrations directory here Let me open it up. This is a Python module directory, so it has a dunder init file.
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It also has the 0001 initial script. This is created by make migrations and has data in it that dictates the structure of the table.
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Let's take a look at it. You can see a couple of different data structures here, all of which are inside of the migration class.
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First, it has an attribute that indicates that this is the initial migration. Seond is a list of dependencies. If there was anything in here,
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these scripts would be run before this one in the migration process. Third is a list of operations.
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The operation here represents the creating of the table in the database. The fields list has all the information
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the migration command needs to create a table that maps to the current version of the song model. Although I only defined a title column.
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Every Django model has a big integer primary key for its ID. So there are two fields here. Ok, let's migrate this.