django-helpdesk/helpdesk/migrations/0002_populate_usersettings.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.db import models, migrations

from helpdesk.settings import DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS


def picke_settings(data):
    """Pickling as defined at migration's creation time"""
    try:
        import pickle
    except ImportError:
        import cPickle as pickle
    from helpdesk.lib import b64encode
    return b64encode(pickle.dumps(data))


# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/migrations/#data-migrations
def populate_usersettings(apps, schema_editor):
    """Create a UserSettings entry for each existing user.
    This will only happen once (at install time, or at upgrade)
    when the UserSettings model doesn't already exist."""

    _User = get_user_model()
    User = apps.get_model(_User._meta.app_label, _User._meta.model_name)

    # Import historical version of models
    UserSettings = apps.get_model("helpdesk", "UserSettings")

    settings_pickled = picke_settings(DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS)

    for u in User.objects.all():
        try:
            UserSettings.objects.get(user=u)
        except UserSettings.DoesNotExist:
            UserSettings.objects.create(user=u, settings_pickled=settings_pickled)


noop = lambda *args, **kwargs: None

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('helpdesk', '0001_initial'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RunPython(populate_usersettings, reverse_code=noop),
    ]