Fixed #21549 -- Made loaddata's 'fixture not found' warning an exception.

Thanks to mpasternak for the report and Tim Graham for the review.

django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py

@@ -239,8 +239,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
             fixture_files.extend(fixture_files_in_dir)
 
         if not fixture_files:
-            # Warning kept for backwards-compatibility; why not an exception?
-            warnings.warn("No fixture named '%s' found." % fixture_name)
+            raise CommandError("No fixture named '%s' found." % fixture_name)
 
         return fixture_files
 

docs/releases/1.10.txt

@@ -408,6 +408,9 @@ Miscellaneous
 * Support for ``skip_validation`` in ``BaseCommand.execute(**options)`` is
   removed. Use ``skip_checks`` (added in Django 1.7) instead.
 
+* :djadmin:`loaddata` now raises a ``CommandError`` instead of showing a
+  warning when the specified fixture file is not found.
+
 .. _deprecated-features-1.10:
 
 Features deprecated in 1.10

tests/fixtures/tests.py

@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@ import os
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import unittest
-import warnings
 
 from django.apps import apps
 from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
 from django.core import management
 from django.core.files.temp import NamedTemporaryFile
+from django.core.management import CommandError
 from django.core.serializers.base import ProgressBar
 from django.db import IntegrityError, connection
 from django.test import (
-    TestCase, TransactionTestCase, ignore_warnings, mock, skipUnlessDBFeature,
+    TestCase, TransactionTestCase, mock, skipUnlessDBFeature,
 )
 from django.utils import six
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
@@ -532,12 +532,12 @@ class FixtureLoadingTests(DumpDataAssertMixin, TestCase):
             management.call_command('loaddata', 'invalid.json', verbosity=0)
             self.assertIn("Could not load fixtures.Article(pk=1):", cm.exception.args[0])
 
-    @ignore_warnings(category=UserWarning, message="No fixture named")
     def test_loaddata_app_option(self):
         """
         Verifies that the --app option works.
         """
-        management.call_command('loaddata', 'db_fixture_1', verbosity=0, app_label="someotherapp")
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(CommandError, "No fixture named 'db_fixture_1' found."):
+            management.call_command('loaddata', 'db_fixture_1', verbosity=0, app_label="someotherapp")
         self.assertQuerysetEqual(Article.objects.all(), [])
         management.call_command('loaddata', 'db_fixture_1', verbosity=0, app_label="fixtures")
         self.assertQuerysetEqual(Article.objects.all(), [
@@ -563,11 +563,12 @@ class FixtureLoadingTests(DumpDataAssertMixin, TestCase):
             '<Article: Who needs to use compressed data?>',
         ])
 
-    @ignore_warnings(category=UserWarning, message="No fixture named")
     def test_unmatched_identifier_loading(self):
         # Try to load db fixture 3. This won't load because the database identifier doesn't match
-        management.call_command('loaddata', 'db_fixture_3', verbosity=0)
-        management.call_command('loaddata', 'db_fixture_3', verbosity=0, using='default')
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(CommandError, "No fixture named 'db_fixture_3' found."):
+            management.call_command('loaddata', 'db_fixture_3', verbosity=0)
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(CommandError, "No fixture named 'db_fixture_3' found."):
+            management.call_command('loaddata', 'db_fixture_3', verbosity=0, using='default')
         self.assertQuerysetEqual(Article.objects.all(), [])
 
     def test_output_formats(self):
@@ -628,20 +629,8 @@ class NonExistentFixtureTests(TestCase):
 
     def test_loaddata_not_existent_fixture_file(self):
         stdout_output = six.StringIO()
-        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
-            warnings.simplefilter("always")
-            # With verbosity=2, we get both stdout output and a warning
-            management.call_command(
-                'loaddata',
-                'this_fixture_doesnt_exist',
-                verbosity=2,
-                stdout=stdout_output,
-            )
-        self.assertIn("No fixture 'this_fixture_doesnt_exist' in",
-            force_text(stdout_output.getvalue()))
-        self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
-        self.assertEqual(force_text(w[0].message),
-            "No fixture named 'this_fixture_doesnt_exist' found.")
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(CommandError, "No fixture named 'this_fixture_doesnt_exist' found."):
+            management.call_command('loaddata', 'this_fixture_doesnt_exist', stdout=stdout_output)
 
     @mock.patch('django.db.connection.enable_constraint_checking')
     @mock.patch('django.db.connection.disable_constraint_checking')
@@ -651,7 +640,8 @@ class NonExistentFixtureTests(TestCase):
         If no fixtures match the loaddata command, constraints checks on the
         database shouldn't be disabled. This is performance critical on MSSQL.
         """
-        management.call_command('loaddata', 'this_fixture_doesnt_exist', verbosity=0)
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(CommandError, "No fixture named 'this_fixture_doesnt_exist' found."):
+            management.call_command('loaddata', 'this_fixture_doesnt_exist', verbosity=0)
         disable_constraint_checking.assert_not_called()
         enable_constraint_checking.assert_not_called()
 

tests/fixtures_model_package/tests.py

 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-import warnings
-
 from django.core import management
+from django.core.management import CommandError
 from django.test import TestCase
 
 from .models import Article
@@ -51,11 +50,8 @@ class FixtureTestCase(TestCase):
         )
 
         # Load a fixture that doesn't exist
-        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
-            warnings.simplefilter("always")
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(CommandError, "No fixture named 'unknown' found."):
             management.call_command("loaddata", "unknown.json", verbosity=0)
-        self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
-        self.assertTrue(w[0].message, "No fixture named 'unknown' found.")
 
         self.assertQuerysetEqual(
             Article.objects.all(), [