from django.db import connections, router, DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS

        make_option('--database', action='store', dest='database',

            default=DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS, help='Nominates a specific database to load '

                'fixtures into. Defaults to the "default" database.'),

        make_option('-n', '--natural', action='store_true', dest='use_natural_keys', default=False,

            help='Use natural keys if they are available.'),

    args = '[appname appname.ModelName ...]'

        using = options.get('database', DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS)

        connection = connections[using]

        use_natural_keys = options.get('use_natural_keys', False)

        excluded_apps = set(get_app(app_label) for app_label in exclude)

            app_list = SortedDict((app, None) for app in get_apps() if app not in excluded_apps)

        # Now collate the objects to be serialized.

        for model in sort_dependencies(app_list.items()):

            if not model._meta.proxy and router.allow_syncdb(using, model):

                objects.extend(model._default_manager.using(using).all())

            return serializers.serialize(format, objects, indent=indent,

                        use_natural_keys=use_natural_keys)

def sort_dependencies(app_list):

    """Sort a list of app,modellist pairs into a single list of models.

    The single list of models is sorted so that any model with a natural key

    is serialized before a normal model, and any model with a natural key

    dependency has it's dependencies serialized first.

    """

    from django.db.models import get_model, get_models

    # Process the list of models, and get the list of dependencies

    model_dependencies = []

    models = set()

    for app, model_list in app_list:

        if model_list is None:

            model_list = get_models(app)

        for model in model_list:

            models.add(model)

            # Add any explicitly defined dependencies

            if hasattr(model, 'natural_key'):

                deps = getattr(model.natural_key, 'dependencies', [])

                if deps:

                    deps = [get_model(*d.split('.')) for d in deps]

            else:

                deps = []

            # Now add a dependency for any FK or M2M relation with

            # a model that defines a natural key

            for field in model._meta.fields:

                if hasattr(field.rel, 'to'):

                    rel_model = field.rel.to

                    if hasattr(rel_model, 'natural_key'):

                        deps.append(rel_model)

            for field in model._meta.many_to_many:

                rel_model = field.rel.to

                if hasattr(rel_model, 'natural_key'):

                    deps.append(rel_model)

            model_dependencies.append((model, deps))

    model_dependencies.reverse()

    # Now sort the models to ensure that dependencies are met. This

    # is done by repeatedly iterating over the input list of models.

    # If all the dependencies of a given model are in the final list,

    # that model is promoted to the end of the final list. This process

    # continues until the input list is empty, or we do a full iteration

    # over the input models without promoting a model to the final list.

    # If we do a full iteration without a promotion, that means there are

    # circular dependencies in the list.

    model_list = []

    while model_dependencies:

        skipped = []

        changed = False

        while model_dependencies:

            model, deps = model_dependencies.pop()

            # If all of the models in the dependency list are either already

            # on the final model list, or not on the original serialization list,

            # then we've found another model with all it's dependencies satisfied.

            found = True

            for candidate in ((d not in models or d in model_list) for d in deps):

                if not candidate:

                    found = False

            if found:

                model_list.append(model)

                changed = True

            else:

                skipped.append((model, deps))

        if not changed:

            raise CommandError("Can't resolve dependencies for %s in serialized app list." %

                ', '.join('%s.%s' % (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.object_name)

                for model, deps in sorted(skipped, key=lambda obj: obj[0].__name__))

            )

        model_dependencies = skipped

    return model_list