added rename_tags, rename_tags_id and delete_unused_tags management commands

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/askbot/api.py b/askbot/api.py
index c79f29dd..8b788016 100644
--- a/askbot/api.py
+++ b/askbot/api.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ in the askbot.models module, but
 api must become a place to manupulate the data in the askbot application
 so that other implementations of the data storage could be possible
 """
+from django.db.models import Q
 from askbot import models
 from askbot import const
 
@@ -32,3 +33,31 @@ def get_info_on_moderation_items(user):
         'seen_count': seen_count,
         'new_count': new_count
     }
+
+def get_admin(seed_user_id = None):
+    """returns user objects with id == seed_user_id
+    if the user with that id is not an administrator,
+    the function will try to find another admin or moderator
+    who has the smallest user id
+
+    if the user is not found, or there are no moderators/admins
+    User.DoesNotExist will be raised
+    
+    The reason this function is here and not on a manager of
+    the user object is because we still patch the django-auth User table
+    and it's probably better not to patch the manager
+    """
+
+    if seed_user_id:
+        user = models.User.objects.get(id = seed_user_id)#let it raise error here
+        if user.is_administrator() or user.is_moderator():
+            return user
+    try:
+        return models.User.objects.filter(
+                        Q(is_superuser=True) | Q(status='m')
+                    ).order_by('id')[0]
+    except IndexError:
+        raise models.User.DoesNotExist(
+                """Please add a moderator or an administrator to the forum first
+                there don't seem to be any"""
+            )