How to create base data in tables of new tenant?

[bernardopires]

How to create base data in tables of new tenant?

[bernardopires]

Hi humbled,

I have a project that does exactly the same thing you want. When a tenant is created, I load some basic data like groups and permissions. loaddata itself doesn't have any direct relation with south, so it shouldn't be a problem to use it on tables that don't have migrations. When are you calling call_command("loaddata", "default_cities.json")? In my case I overrode the save method on my tenant model and called it at the end of the method. This ensures it will always get called. Hope this helps!

When I get home I'll take a look to see exactly how I've done it and I'll post the code here.

Cheers,
Bernardo

[bernardopires]

Alright, here's how my save method looks like

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    is_new = self.pk is None
    super(LawFirm, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

    if is_new:
        call_command('load_schema_data', 'groups.json', schema_name=self.schema_name, verbosity=0,)

You will probably need a loaddata command that actually accepts a schema name (else it might sync it to public), so I created a new command called load_schema_data (as seen above). Here's how this file looks like:

from tenant_schemas.management.commands import BaseTenantCommand


class Command(BaseTenantCommand):
    COMMAND_NAME = 'loaddata'

Hope this helps! Feel free to write here any problems you have.

Cheers

[humbled]

That's great, thanks @bernardopires! For those following at home, the second snippet above is saved as load_schema_data.py in myapp.management.commands. The latter took me a little figuring out as haven't made any custom django commands before. Your comment on #24 was helpful too.

Thanks again
Brad