How model field will be field automatically with the user ids - django

Question

I am creating a payment/paid-subscription for my django project. I decided to create a separate payment app and connect it to my django project. In below, you see the model for payment which I expect to have user ids with their payment status(for now just want to start with default=False):
from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Payment(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
paid = models.BooleanField(default=False)
class Meta:
db_table = 'payment'
I created this, but in the database table, I see the user_id and
paid are empty, while I have already a lot of users signed up. How
to bring those ids here, with a default false paid?
And what should I do to say django that after each new sign up fill
this model as well?

Answer 1

Part 1 - Updating existing users to have a Payment
Django won't automatically do this for you, you can go into the shell, and create Payment instances for each user:
Enter the shell (python manage.py shell)
from myapp.models import Payment
users = User.objects.all()
for user in users:
Payment.objects.create(user=user, paid=False)
If you want to be more effecient you could do something like this:
payments = [Payment(user=user, paid=False) for user in User.objects.all()]
Payment.objects.bulk_create(payments)
If this is an app that you have already deployed somewhere else you should create a data-migration to do this for you:
from django.db import migrations
def create_payments(apps, schema_editor):
Payment = apps.get_model('yourappname', 'Payment')
User = apps.get_model('yourappname', 'User')
payments = [Payment(user=user, paid=False) for user in User.objects.all()]
Payment.objects.bulk_create(payments)
class Migration(migrations.Migration):
dependencies = [
('yourappname', '0001_initial'),
]
operations = [
migrations.RunPython(create_payments),
]
Part 2 - Creating Payments on every new sign-up
This will depend alot on how you are doing your sign-ups, so its difficult to give an exact answer. But wherever your new user object is created you just want to add something like:
Payment.objects.create(user=user, paid=False)
If you have a form that is handling user sign-ups maybe do it in the save method of that form. If you're using something like django rest framework, it would go in whatever view creates the User.