Sub classing a self referring class with natural keys from a Base class generates an error on dumpdata.
c:\dev\chris\bugdemo>manage.py syncdb Creating tables ... Creating table auth_permission Creating table auth_group_permissions Creating table auth_group Creating table auth_user_user_permissions Creating table auth_user_groups Creating table auth_user Creating table django_content_type Creating table django_session Creating table django_site Creating table bug_template_extends Creating table bug_template_includes Creating table bug_template You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any superusers defined. Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): no Installing custom SQL ... Installing indexes ... Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s) c:\dev\chris\bugdemo>manage.py dumpdata Error: Can't resolve dependencies for bug.Template in serialized app list. Here's the model. from django.db import models class BaseManager(models.Manager): def get_by_natural_key(self, name, date_created): return self.get( name=name, date_created=date_created,) class Base(models.Model): objects = BaseManager() date_created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True ) date_modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now = True ) name = models.CharField(max_length = 100, default = '.') description = models.TextField(default = '.') class Meta: abstract = True unique_together = (('name','date_created'),) ordering = ['name','date_created'] def natural_key(self): return (self.name, self.date_created) def __unicode__(self): return self.name TEMPLATE_TYPES = ( ('HTML', 'HTML Text Template'), ('XML', 'XML Template'), ('TXT', 'Text Template'), ) class Template(Base): extends = models.ManyToManyField('self', blank = True, null =True, related_name = 'extends_template', symmetrical = False) includes = models.ManyToManyField('self', blank = True, null =True, related_name = 'includes_template', symmetrical = False) type = models.CharField(max_length = 6, choices=TEMPLATE_TYPES) Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/Yck43Fc-zpoJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.