Update Candidate Account Provision to Use Bulk Creation

hknweb/events/migrations/0013_alter_icalview_options.py

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Generated by Django 4.2.5 on 2023-11-29 07:09
+
+from django.db import migrations
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+    dependencies = [
+        ("events", "0012_icalview"),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterModelOptions(
+            name="icalview",
+            options={"verbose_name": "iCal view"},
+        ),
+    ]

hknweb/forms.py

@@ -236,30 +236,26 @@ def generate_password() -> str:
 
             return password
 
-        email_information = []
+        # Process user data into useable structs
+        user_data = []
         for row in rows:
-            # If username is None or already exists, skip provisioning
-            if (row["username"] is None) or (row["username"] in existing_usernames):
+            if row["username"] is None or row["username"] in existing_usernames:
                 continue
-
-            # Generate a password
-            password = generate_password()
-
-            # Construct user object
-            user = User.objects.create_user(
+            user_data.append(User(
                 username=row["username"],
                 first_name=row["First name"],
                 last_name=row["Last name"],
                 email=row["Berkeley email"],
-                password=password,
-            )
-            user.save()
-
-            # Add user to the candidates group
+                password=generate_password(),
+            ))
+
+        users = User.objects.bulk_create(user_data) # Bulk process accounts into database
+
+        # Save each user, add to candidate group set, and add information for emails
+        email_information = []
+        for user in users:
             group.user_set.add(user)
-
-            # Add information for sending emails
-            email_information.append((user, password))
+            email_information.append((user, user.password))
 
         self.email_information = email_information