In fact, I think dumpdata takes an app name, not a table or model name.

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that you have to dumdata one or both of the models at the ends
> of the many to many,
> and the join table will come along for free.
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:21 PM, natasha.ba...@utoronto.ca
> <natasha.ba...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm trying to dump the contents of a table which is the mapping for a
>> many-to-many field.
>>
>> The table is called Part and it has a ManytoManyField called
>> category_id.
>>
>> When I run python manage.py dumpdata store.part_category_id >
>> file.json
>>
>> I get the error Error: Unable to serialize database: Category matching
>> query does not exist.
>>
>> I have validated that all values in the table are valid.
>>
>> The table is defined as follows --> id: integer PRIMARY KEY
>> unipart_id: integer category_id: integer
>>
>> Also, when I run dumpdata on the table (python manage.py dumpdata
>> store.part > file.json), the data is dumped without an error message
>> but the category_id field is consistently empty in the output.
>>
>> Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Natasha
>>
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