Migrating to QuillField

To convert a field used as a TextField or CharField to a QuillField, the following operations are required.

Suppose you had a model that looked like this.

# Assuming this is the model you created in the posts app
class NonQuillPost(models.Model):
    content = models.TextField()

1. Convert existing data into a format suitable for QuillField using django command.

   ❗️USE WITH CAUTION❗️This command permanently transforms the contents of that field in the DB.

   # Usage: python manage.py convert_to_quill {app_name} {model_name} {field_name}
   > python manage.py convert_to_quill posts NonQuillPost content
   

2. Change existing field to QuillField.

   from django_quill.fields import QuillField
   
   class NonQuillPost(models.Model):
       content = QuillField()
   

3. Create a migration.

   > python manage.py makemigrations
   Migrations for 'posts':
     posts/migrations/0002_alter_nonquillpost_content.py
       - Alter field content on nonquillpost
   

4. Apply the migration.

   > python manage.py migrate
   Operations to perform:
     Apply all migrations: admin, auth, contenttypes, posts, sessions
   Running migrations:
     Applying posts.0002_alter_nonquillpost_content... OK