Signal function to auto-create ApiKey objects when using tastypie ApiKeyAuthentication.

create_api_key.py

# models.py
# Work around the ImportError: cannot import name create_api_key 
# Issue https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie/issues/937
class User(AbstractUser):
    field1
    ...
 
 
@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def create_user_api_key(sender, **kwargs):
    """
    Auto-create ApiKey objects using Tastypie's create_api_key    
    """
    from tastypie.models import create_api_key
    create_api_key(User, **kwargs)

To anybody who got here from Google, here's an example for custom user models:

@receiver(post_save, sender=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
def create_user_api_key(sender, **kwargs):
    """Auto-create ApiKey objects using Tastypie's create_api_key."""
    from tastypie.models import create_api_key
    create_api_key(sender, **kwargs)