tag_model uninitialized in migrations

I’m trying to migrate django-tagging to django-taggit. After having run a migration to add it side-by-side such that it looks like this:

 class Flow(models.Model):
      tags = TagField()
     new_tags = TaggableManager()

I was trying to copy over the tags:

def transfer_tags(apps, schema_editor):
    Flow = apps.get_model("flow", "Flow")
    for f in Flow.objects.all():
        if f.tags:
            f.new_tags.add(*f.tags.split(" "))
            f.save()


class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('flow', '0003_flow_new_tags'),                                                                                                                                                                                                      
    ]

    operations = [
            migrations.RunPython(transfer_tags),
    ]

But this ran into an AttributeError when running ‘migrate’:

> ~/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/taggit/managers.py(192)_to_tag_model_instances()
    190         for t in tags:
    191             import ipdb;ipdb.set_trace()
--> 192             if isinstance(t, self.through.tag_model()):
    193                 tag_objs.add(t)
    194             elif isinstance(t, six.string_types):

ipdb> self.through
<class 'TaggedItem'>

And when I continue, I am getting this error:

AttributeError: type object 'TaggedItem' has no attribute 'tag_model'

[steverecio]

I added this snipped to my data migration and it seemed to work well. Might be nice to generalize it and add a helper utility somewhere.

tags = ['tag1', 'tag2']
Tag = apps.get_model('taggit', 'Tag')
TaggedItem = apps.get_model('taggit', 'TaggedItem')
ContentType = apps.get_model('contenttypes', 'ContentType')
ct = ContentType.objects.get(app_label="myapp", model="mymodel")
for tg in tags:
    t, created = Tag.objects.get_or_create(name=tg)
    tagged_items, created = TaggedItem.objects.get_or_create(
            content_type_id=ct.id,
            object_id=my_model_instance.id,
            tag=t
    )

[bmoe872]

I added this snipped to my data migration and it seemed to work well. Might be nice to generalize it and add a helper utility somewhere.

tags = ['tag1', 'tag2']
Tag = apps.get_model('taggit', 'Tag')
TaggedItem = apps.get_model('taggit', 'TaggedItem')
ContentType = apps.get_model('contenttypes', 'ContentType')
ct = ContentType.objects.get(app_label="myapp", model="mymodel")
for tg in tags:
    t, created = Tag.objects.get_or_create(name=tg)
    tagged_items, created = TaggedItem.objects.get_or_create(
            content_type_id=ct.id,
            object_id=my_model_instance.id,
            tag=t
    )

@steverecio What do you do with the tagged_items after this though? I’m trying to get this to work with a data migration as well, and trying to save the TaggedItem back to mymodel is not working, and still giving me the same error.