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GeoDjango and Mixer. 'PointField' has no attribute '_meta'

I have a Location model that defined (roughly) like this:

from django.contrib.gis.db import models


class Location(models.Model):
    address = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    gis = models.PointField(null=True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

Whenever I try to mixer.blend('app.Location') I get:

AttributeError: Mixer (app.Location): type object 'PointField' has no attribute '_meta'

It works when I blend it with the field set to None or Point, but I wonder if there is a way to set it up so it can do it on its own, especially since faker can generate this data.

Solution

  • mixer.register allows you to customize the way you want your data generated. In this case

    from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point


mixer.register(
    'app.Location',
    gis=lambda: Point(
        float(mixer.faker.latitude()),
        float(mixer.faker.longitude()),
    ),
)

    does the job.