Django Custom Management Commands

In Django project, We could manage by executing some commands which could be invoked through the manage.py.

For example:

# Start the webserver
python manage.py runserver

Management Command is used to create our own actions with manage.py.

If your app is in projectdirectory then create the directories projectdirectory/app/management/commands.

Create an empty file called __init__.py in both the management and commands directories. This will make that every other python file in the commands directory can be executed via manage.py command.

If you create the file project/app/management/commands/management_command.py. Django will register a manage.py command for each Python module in that directory whose name doesn’t begin with an underscore, then it can be run as manage.py management_command.

Example: Management command to create elasticsearch index.

In the app which the command is used for make the following directory structure:

management/

    __init__.py

    commands/

        __init__.py

        create_index.py

In the above example, I'm using management command to create a my_index with title, description and content. Now run the following command to create index.

python manage.py create_index

Above command should return the response '{"acknowledged":true}' after successful index creation.