from YOUR_PROJECT_NAME import settings
database_id = user.username #just something unique
newDatabase = {}
newDatabase["id"] = database_id
newDatabase['ENGINE'] = 'django.db.backends.sqlite3'
newDatabase['NAME'] = '/path/to/db_%s.sql' % database_id
newDatabase['USER'] = ''
newDatabase['PASSWORD'] = ''
newDatabase['HOST'] = ''
newDatabase['PORT'] = ''
settings.DATABASES[database_id] = newDatabase
save_db_settings_to_file(newDatabase) #this is for step 2)
def save_db_settings_to_file(db_settings):
path_to_store_settings = "/path/to/your/project/YOUR_PROJECT_NAME/database_settings/"
newDbString = """
DATABASES['%(id)s'] = {
'ENGINE': '%(ENGINE)s', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'MysqL', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
'NAME': '%(NAME)s', # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
'USER': '', # Not used with sqlite3.
'PASSWORD': '', # Not used with sqlite3.
'HOST': '', # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
'PORT': '', # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
}
""" % db_settings
file_to_store_settings = os.path.join(path_to_store_settings, db_settings['id'] + ".py")
write_file(file_to_store_settings, newDbString) #psuedocode for compactness
import settings_manager
from settings import DATABASES
import os
path_to_store_settings = "/path/to/your/project/YOUR_PROJECT_NAME/database_settings/"
for fname in os.listdir(path_to_settings):
full_path = os.path.join(path_to_settings, fname)
f = open(full_path)
content = f.read()
f.close()
exec(content) #you'd better be sure that the file doesn't contain anything malicIoUs