Question on Fixtures

[nathan_dole]

Hi, I have 2 questions about fixtures.

1. If we have Child Doctype, should we export both the Parent and Child Doctype’s fixtures ?
   Let’s say I have Parent Doctype A contains a bunch of Children Doctype B.
   If I export both fixtures, it will return errors ‘Duplicate entry’ when imported.
   If I don’t include Children Doctype, some can be lost because not all Children Record has a parent

2. Fixtures got imported every time we run frappe --latest. Does it know how to merge and update ? Or everytime it flush the data and reapply what’s inside the fixtures ?

[rmehta]

If your fixtures are re-imported, all children will be deleted and re-applied (i think!)

@nathan_dole

Fixtures got imported every time we run frappe --latest. Does it know how to merge and update ? Or everytime it flush the data and reapply what’s inside the fixtures ?

Re-importing will be done based on timestamp.