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Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Richard Davies — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:18:00 -0000

I've been using this technique since you posted it - thanks! Unfortunately, I now want to have initial SQL data loaded into some of my other tables which is keyed off the user - and the initial_data.json fixture is loaded right at the end, after the initial SQL data for the other tables. Can you think of a solution that will still continue to work in this situation?

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Kevin Gann — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:47:00 -0000

Thanks for this!

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Jiri Barton — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:24:00 -0000

My answer is a mess. I have posted it on my blog with better formatting:

http://lurkingideas.net/blo...

Sorry for littering your blog.

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Jiri Barton — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:39:00 -0000

A brilliant idea it is. Let me extend it a bit further. Create an empty application "superuser" and put your dump there. Include this application in your settings:

mkdir -p superuser/fixtures
touch superuser/__init__.py superuser/models.py
./manage dumpdata auth >superuser/fixtures/initial_data.json



Add 'superuser' to the list of your INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py. syncdb --noinput will install the fixture automatically.

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

D3f0 — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:20:00 -0000

I've made a script that instead of syncdb. Basically it does the same thing.

import os
import sys
sys.path.append('..')

SUPERUSER_DATA = {
'username':'admin',
'email':'admin@admin.com',
'password': 'admin'
}

os.system('rm -rf db/*') # remove Sqlite files, we store SQlite dbs in ./db
os.system('python manage.py syncdb --noinput')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'settings'
from django.contrib.auth.create_superuser import createsuperuser
createsuperuser(**SUPERUSER_DATA)

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Martin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:31:00 -0000

Really nice. Until now I always used "raw sql" fixtures, without the session thing. Will use this from now on. :)

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Jean-Philippe Bougie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:32:00 -0000

I think a better technique would be to use the ./manage.py reset [app] command, which will only destroy the data of the apps you're developing, and not of the contrib stuff. As long as you don't touch the user data model, it should be a simpler solution. ./manage sqlreset [app] can be used to check what will be executed prior to doing it

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Metin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:06:00 -0000

Incredible! Thanks for sharing. Until there's some sort of "usable" migrations for Django, I'm gonna stick with this method of local development.

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Aidas Bendoraitis — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:08:00 -0000

I am also using the same technique for developing and testing one of my projects. But rather I dump all data from all tables into a fixture.