Django-Truncate

Django-Truncate is a simple library that will add the ability to empty any given model in any app within your django project, in a more SQL related words it will TRUNCATE the TABLE with a simple command:

python manage.py truncate --apps myapp --models model1 model2

Installation

After you move to your django project main directory follow these simple steps

1. In your terminal/command line run the following command:

   pip install django-truncate
   

2. Add "django_truncate" to your INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
     ...
     'django_truncate',
   ]
   

3. And that's it! you're now ready to use it.

Usage & Options

There is two simple options that will make it easier for you to truncate your tables:

1. --apps: This command will take the name of the apps you want truncate it's data, by default it will truncate all the tables:

   python manage.py truncate --apps appone apptwo
   

2. --models: After you enter the app name enter the Model(s) name(s) If you don't want to truncate all of the tables:

   python manage.py truncate --apps appone --models Model3
   

   Note: if you don't write the name of the app the truncate will stop and you'll see an error message in the terminal

Remember you can always see the instructions by running:

python manage.py truncate -h

Compatibility

This project works with Django 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 using Python 2 (2.7) or Python 3 (3.4 and 3.5).

For the moment this project is using the Django ORM so django-truncate will work with all of the supported Databases by the Django ORM

License

This project is under the BSD License.