djangoappengine User Creation and Data Persistence is Broken

Question

I recently updated to appengine SDK 1.6 and I'm having trouble with persisting data on my dev environment. I have everything setup according to the official installation guide.

Even though I had a super user account setup for my app previously, it no longer works. I created the account again with

manage.py createsuperuser

and it seems to do what it's supposed to but the admin login doesn't work. Also, every time I run

manage.py syncdb

The script keeps informing me that I just install the auth system and don't have any users yet. Then it prompts me to create a super user.

Because nothing is persisting, I can't login to the admin page and any data I attempt to save using the built in shell doesn't keep either.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '11 at 04:39

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is it possible that you fire up a new issue at the issue tracker https://github.com/django-nonrel/djangoappengine/issues or at the mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/django-non-relational ? I think there might be a bug somewhere.

answered Dec 07 '11 at 04:39

adieu

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I could also do that, yes. But this really isn't an answer. You should comment on the question instead. – Jeff LaFay Dec 07 '11 at 13:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '11 at 08:04

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Depending on what you upgraded from, it's possible that you previously had no 'default partition' value - earlier versions didn't set one by default, but recent ones use 'dev:'. Try giving a --default_partition argument to manage.py.

answered Dec 07 '11 at 08:04

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The manage.py that's provided with djangoappengine doesn't have a default_partition subcommand. – Jeff LaFay Dec 07 '11 at 13:52
Sorry, that's true. Are you using the latest checkout of djangoappengine? It looks like Waledmar made a commit a month ago that addresses this very issue: https://bitbucket.org/wkornewald/djangoappengine/changeset/60c2b3339a9f – Daniel Roseman Dec 07 '11 at 13:59
I got the latest last night and it does include that commit. – Jeff LaFay Dec 07 '11 at 14:05
An issue needs to be reported since the problem isn't trivial. The machine I was trying last night was a Win 7 64-bit machine and I tried the same code on my Debian machine and the data persists. – Jeff LaFay Dec 07 '11 at 17:00

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '11 at 13:40

I didn't end up changing anything but after trying it again on my Win 7 machine the next day, the issue wasn't there so it unfortunately isn't reproducible right now. Maybe logging out and logging back in changed some type of state after the install, that's my best guess. Sorry that I don't have any further information.

djangoappengine User Creation and Data Persistence is Broken

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