How to generate data model from sql schema in Django?
Question:
Our website uses a PHP front-end and a PostgreSQL database. We don’t have a back-end at the moment except phpPgAdmin. The database admin has to type data into phpPgAmin manually, which is error-prone and tedious. We want to use Django to build a back-end.
The database has a few dozen of tables already there. Is it possible to import the database schema into Django and create models automatically?
Answers:
If each table has an autoincrement integer PK then you can use the legacy database instructions.
Yes it is possible, using the inspectdb command:
python manage.py inspectdb
or
python manage.py inspectdb > models.py
to get them in into the file
This will look at the database configured in your settings.py and outputs model classes to standard output.
As Ignacio pointed out, there is a guide for your situation in the documentation.
Our website uses a PHP front-end and a PostgreSQL database. We don’t have a back-end at the moment except phpPgAdmin. The database admin has to type data into phpPgAmin manually, which is error-prone and tedious. We want to use Django to build a back-end.
The database has a few dozen of tables already there. Is it possible to import the database schema into Django and create models automatically?
If each table has an autoincrement integer PK then you can use the legacy database instructions.
Yes it is possible, using the inspectdb command:
python manage.py inspectdb
or
python manage.py inspectdb > models.py
to get them in into the file
This will look at the database configured in your settings.py and outputs model classes to standard output.
As Ignacio pointed out, there is a guide for your situation in the documentation.