Enhanced loaddata error message printed when no DB fixture is provided.

Fixes #7043 by fixing the last code path where a misleading 'No fixtures found.' error message was being shown.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17051 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py

@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         connection = connections[using]
         self.style = no_style()
 
+        if not len(fixture_labels):
+            self.stderr.write(
+                self.style.ERROR("No database fixture specified. Please provide the path of at least one fixture in the command line.\n")
+            )
+            return
+
         verbosity = int(options.get('verbosity'))
         show_traceback = options.get('traceback')
 
@@ -245,10 +251,6 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
             transaction.commit(using=using)
             transaction.leave_transaction_management(using=using)
 
-        if fixture_object_count == 0:
-            if verbosity >= 1:
-                self.stdout.write("No fixtures found.\n")
-        else:
         if verbosity >= 1:
             if fixture_object_count == loaded_object_count:
                 self.stdout.write("Installed %d object(s) from %d fixture(s)\n" % (

tests/regressiontests/fixtures_regress/tests.py

@@ -390,6 +390,21 @@ class TestFixtures(TestCase):
             stderr.getvalue().startswith('Problem installing fixture')
         )
 
+    def test_loaddata_no_fixture_specified(self):
+        """
+        Regression for #7043 - Error is quickly reported when no fixtures is provided in the command line.
+        """
+        stderr = StringIO()
+        management.call_command(
+            'loaddata',
+            verbosity=0,
+            commit=False,
+            stderr=stderr,
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            stderr.getvalue(), 'No database fixture specified. Please provide the path of at least one fixture in the command line.\n'
+        )
+
 
 class NaturalKeyFixtureTests(TestCase):