from forum.modules import get_modules_script
+
+get_modules_script('management')
+
from django.db.models.signals import post_syncdb
import forum.models
-def setup_badges(sender, **kwargs):
- from forum.badges import ALL_BADGES
+def post_syncdb_callback(sender, **kwargs):
+ # Import the needed libraries to use the database and detect the
+ # DB engine/sever type being currently employed.
+ from django.db import connection, connections
+
+ verbosity = int(kwargs["verbosity"])
+
+ # Get the DB engine being used for persistence for this app.
+ current_db_engine = connections.databases[connection.alias]['ENGINE']
+
+ # Make sure the updates are only executed for a MySQL DB.
+ if current_db_engine.find("mysql") > 0:
+ # Ok, mysql was found in the engine description. Go ahead
+ # and attempt to execute the alter table statements.
+ cursor = connection.cursor()
+
+ # Pair the table names with the columns that need to be updated.
+ updatable_table_columns = {
+ "forum_tag": "name",
+ "auth_user": "username"
+ }
- for badge in ALL_BADGES:
- badge.install()
+ # Update each column in turn.
+ for table_name, column_name in updatable_table_columns.iteritems():
+ alter_table_statement = "ALTER TABLE %(table_name)s MODIFY %(column_name)s varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL;" % {
+ "table_name": table_name, "column_name": column_name}
+ log_status(verbosity,"Updating MySQL column with this statement: " + alter_table_statement)
+ cursor.execute(alter_table_statement)
-post_syncdb.connect(setup_badges, sender=forum.models)
+def log_status(verbosity, message):
+ if verbosity == 2:
+ print "[DEBUG] " + str(message)
-get_modules_script('management')
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+# Link the callback to the post_syncdb signal.
+post_syncdb.connect(post_syncdb_callback, sender=forum.models)