Create lots of users in nodebb

create_users.js

'use strict';
/*globals require, console, process */

var nconf = require('nconf');
var async = require('async');


nconf.file({
	file: 'config.json'
});


var db = require('./src/database');

db.init(function(err) {
	if (err) {
		console.log('NodeBB could not connect to your redis database. Redis returned the following error: ' + err.message);
		process.exit();
	}

	createUsers(function(err) {
		if (err) {
			console.log(err.message);
			process.exit();
		}

		console.log('users created');
		process.exit();
	});
});

function createUsers(callback) {
	var user = require('./src/user');

	var count = 100000;

	var users = [];
	for (var i=0; i<count; ++i) {
		var username = makeid();
		users.push({username: username, email: username + '@nodebb.org'});
	}

	var index = 0;
	async.eachSeries(users, function(userData, next) {
		user.create({username: userData.username, email: userData.email}, function(err) {
			if (err) {
				return next(err);
			}
			console.log('created ' + userData.username + ' - ' + index + ' / ' + count);
			++index;
			next();
		});
	}, callback);
}


function makeid()
{
    var text = '';
    var possible = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789';

    for( var i=0; i < 8; i++ )
        text += possible.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * possible.length));

    return text;
}