This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Adding Data Using the API
This section briefly describes how to use the Django shell interface and database API to quickly add a single Person object to the People table. The Django shell is a Python shell that gives you access to the database API included with Django. The database API is a set of Python methods that allow you to access the project database from the data model.
Try It Yourself: Add a Person Object to the iFriends Database
Open the Django shell, and follow these steps to add yourself as a Person object in the People model of the iFriends database.
- From a console prompt, change to the root directory of the iFriends project.
- Enter the following command to invoke the Django shell:
python manage.py shell
- From the shell prompt, enter the following to import the Person class from the People package:
from iFriends.People.models import Person
- Enter the following command to create a Person object named p:
p = Person(name="<your name>", email="<your eMail>")
- Save the Person object you just created using the following command:
p.save()
- Verify that the object was created by using the Person.objects.all() function, which returns a list of all Person objects, and then print the list:
lst = Person.objects.all() print lst
Figure 2.5 shows these commands.
Figure 2.5 Using the Python shell to add an object to the database.
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A Person object has now been created in the iFriends database. We will discuss accessing the database and using the database API in more depth later.