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Django South - Migrate From Python Code

Is it possible to run a migration from Python code? I don't want to (actually I cannot) use the terminal command:

venv/bin/python src/manage.py migrate myapp

I need to run it from Python code as part of my business logic on a dynamically created database.

This is what I have so far:

db_name = uuid.uuid4()
from settings.local import DATABASES
new_database = {}
new_database['ENGINE'] = 'django.db.backends.mysql'
new_database['NAME'] = db_name
new_database['USER'] = DATABASES["default"]["USER"]
new_database['PASSWORD'] = DATABASES["default"]["PASSWORD"]
new_database['HOST'] = DATABASES["default"]["HOST"]
new_database['PORT'] = DATABASES["default"]["PORT"]
import settings
database_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
settings.DATABASES[database_id] = new_database
from django.core.management import call_command
call_command('migrate', 'catalogue', database=database_id)

But I get:

KeyError: '28a4eb10-91e4-4de8-8a74-15d72f8245ef'
Solution

  • Yes, you can. Assuming it is called from within Django app:

    from django.core.management import call_command

call_command('migrate', 'myapp')