Django call 'id' expected a number but got string

Question

Django errors with django-import-export libraries.

I want to import data from excel to db via django admin. I use for it django-import-export, but i got Field 'id' expected a number but got 'HPI'.

Excel file contains

I found answer, that I have to add exclude = ('id',), but it didn't help. Also i did migrations, it didn't help too. How to fix it and have ability to import 6 columns data from excel to db via django admin?

models.py

    from django_mysql.models import JSONField, Model
    from django.db import models



    class Category(Model):
        title = models.CharField(max_length=100)

        class Meta:
            ordering = ('-id',)
            verbose_name = 'Category'
            verbose_name_plural = 'Categories'

        def __str__(self):
            return self.title


    class Tag(Model):
        title = models.CharField(max_length=100)

        class Meta:
            ordering = ('-id',)

        def __str__(self):
            return self.title


    class Type(Model):
        title = models.CharField(max_length=100)

        class Meta:
            ordering = ('-id',)
            verbose_name = 'Type'
            verbose_name_plural = 'Types'

        def __str__(self):
            return self.title


    class Macro(Model):
        type = models.ForeignKey(
            Type,
            max_length=100,
            null=True,
            blank=True,
            on_delete=models.SET_NULL)
        tags = models.ManyToManyField(Tag, blank=True)
        category = models.ForeignKey(
            Category, null=True, blank=True, on_delete=models.SET_NULL)
        abbreviation = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True)
        title = models.CharField(max_length=100, verbose_name='Title')
        content = models.TextField(max_length=1000, null=True, blank=True)

        class Meta:
            ordering = ('-id',)

        def __str__(self):
            return self.title

admin.py

    from django.contrib import admin

    from import_export import resources
    from import_export.admin import ImportExportModelAdmin

    from .models import Category, Tag, Type, Macro


    class MacroResource(resources.ModelResource):

        class Meta:
            model = Macro
            skip_unchanged = True
            report_skipped = True
            exclude = ('id', )
            export_order = ('type', 'tags', 'category', 'abbreviation', 'title', 'content')


    @admin.register(Macro)
    class MacroAdmin(ImportExportModelAdmin):
        resource_class = MacroResource
        list_display = ('id', 'type', 'tags_list', 'category', 'abbreviation', 'title', 'content')
        search_fields = ('title', 'category__title', 'type__title', 'abbreviation', 'content', )

        def tags_list(self, obj):
            tags = [t for t in obj.tags.all()]
            return ' '.join(str(tags)) if tags else '-'


    @admin.register(Category)
    class CategoryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
        list_display = ('id', 'title')


    @admin.register(Tag)
    class TagAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
        list_display = ('id', 'title')

        def __str__(self):
            return self.title


    @admin.register(Type)
    class TypeAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
        list_display = ('id', 'title')

Answer 1

The problem was with ForeignKey and ManyToMany fields of a database model. So django-import-export library need to get widgets for this fields.

More about it here: https://django-import-export.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api_widgets.html#import_export.widgets.ForeignKeyWidget

Solution: admin.py

        class MacroResource(resources.ModelResource):

            type = fields.Field(
                column_name='type',
                attribute='type',
                widget=ForeignKeyWidget(Type, 'title'))

            category = fields.Field(
                column_name='category',
                attribute='category',
                widget=ForeignKeyWidget(Category, 'title'))

            tags = fields.Field(
                column_name='tags',
                attribute='tags',
                widget=ManyToManyWidget(Tag, field='title'))

            class Meta:
                model = Macro
                skip_unchanged = True
                report_skipped = True
                exclude = ('id', )
                import_id_fields = ('title',)

                fields = ('type', 'tags', 'category', 'abbreviation', 'title', 'content')

instead of

        class MacroResource(resources.ModelResource):

            class Meta:
                model = Macro
                skip_unchanged = True
                report_skipped = True
                exclude = ('id', )
                export_order = ('type', 'tags', 'category', 'abbreviation', 'title', 'content')