In Django create a dummyuser (on startup?)

Question

My goal is to have one dummyuser in the database. I already wrote the following function

def get_test_user():
    user, created = get_user_model.objects.get_or_create(username=TESTUSER_USERNAME)
    user.set_password(TESTUSER_PASSWORD)
    user.save

But where and how should I call it to achieve my goal. I am aware that testing django will create its own database and that there are functions for creating test users. But this should actually run in the production database as well.

Answer 1

You can create data migration, for example:

from django.contrib.auth.hashers import make_password
from django.db import migrations


def create_user(apps, schema_editor):
    User = apps.get_registered_model('auth', 'User')
    user = User(
        username='user',
        email='user@mail.com',
        password=make_password('pass'),
        is_superuser=False,
        is_staff=False
    )
    user.save()


class Migration(migrations.Migration):
    dependencies = [
        ('auth', '0001_initial')
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RunPython(create_user),
    ]