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Tobias Kunze 4a954cfd11 Fixed #30573 -- Rephrased documentation to avoid words that minimise the involved difficulty.
This patch does not remove all occurrences of the words in question.
Rather, I went through all of the occurrences of the words listed
below, and judged if they a) suggested the reader had some kind of
knowledge/experience, and b) if they added anything of value (including
tone of voice, etc). I left most of the words alone. I looked at the
following words:

- simply/simple
- easy/easier/easiest
- obvious
- just
- merely
- straightforward
- ridiculous

Thanks to Carlton Gibson for guidance on how to approach this issue, and
to Tim Bell for providing the idea. But the enormous lion's share of
thanks go to Adam Johnson for his patient and helpful review.
2019-09-06 13:27:46 +02:00

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Integrating Django with a legacy database
=========================================
While Django is best suited for developing new applications, it's quite
possible to integrate it into legacy databases. Django includes a couple of
utilities to automate as much of this process as possible.
This document assumes you know the Django basics, as covered in the
:doc:`tutorial </intro/tutorial01>`.
Once you've got Django set up, you'll follow this general process to integrate
with an existing database.
Give Django your database parameters
====================================
You'll need to tell Django what your database connection parameters are, and
what the name of the database is. Do that by editing the :setting:`DATABASES`
setting and assigning values to the following keys for the ``'default'``
connection:
* :setting:`NAME`
* :setting:`ENGINE <DATABASE-ENGINE>`
* :setting:`USER`
* :setting:`PASSWORD`
* :setting:`HOST`
* :setting:`PORT`
Auto-generate the models
========================
.. highlight:: bash
Django comes with a utility called :djadmin:`inspectdb` that can create models
by introspecting an existing database. You can view the output by running this
command::
$ python manage.py inspectdb
Save this as a file by using standard Unix output redirection::
$ python manage.py inspectdb > models.py
This feature is meant as a shortcut, not as definitive model generation. See the
:djadmin:`documentation of inspectdb <inspectdb>` for more information.
Once you've cleaned up your models, name the file ``models.py`` and put it in
the Python package that holds your app. Then add the app to your
:setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` setting.
By default, :djadmin:`inspectdb` creates unmanaged models. That is,
``managed = False`` in the model's ``Meta`` class tells Django not to manage
each table's creation, modification, and deletion::
class Person(models.Model):
id = models.IntegerField(primary_key=True)
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=70)
class Meta:
managed = False
db_table = 'CENSUS_PERSONS'
If you do want to allow Django to manage the table's lifecycle, you'll need to
change the :attr:`~django.db.models.Options.managed` option above to ``True``
(or remove it because ``True`` is its default value).
Install the core Django tables
==============================
Next, run the :djadmin:`migrate` command to install any extra needed database
records such as admin permissions and content types::
$ python manage.py migrate
Test and tweak
==============
Those are the basic steps -- from here you'll want to tweak the models Django
generated until they work the way you'd like. Try accessing your data via the
Django database API, and try editing objects via Django's admin site, and edit
the models file accordingly.