MVC 5 Seed Users and Roles

Solution 1:

Here is example of usual Seed approach:

protected override void Seed(SecurityModule.DataContexts.IdentityDb context)
{
    if (!context.Roles.Any(r => r.Name == "AppAdmin"))
    {
        var store = new RoleStore<IdentityRole>(context);
        var manager = new RoleManager<IdentityRole>(store);
        var role = new IdentityRole { Name = "AppAdmin" };

        manager.Create(role);
    }

    if (!context.Users.Any(u => u.UserName == "founder"))
    {
        var store = new UserStore<ApplicationUser>(context);
        var manager = new UserManager<ApplicationUser>(store);
        var user = new ApplicationUser {UserName = "founder"};

        manager.Create(user, "ChangeItAsap!");
        manager.AddToRole(user.Id, "AppAdmin");
    }
}

I used package-manager "update-database". DB and all tables were created and seeded with data.

Solution 2:

It's a small addition, but to anyone having the "UserId not found." message when trying to seed: (Tom Regan had this question in the comments, and I was stuck on it myself for a while)

This means that the manager.Create(user, "ChangeItAsap!") was not successful. This might have a different reason, but for me it was because my password was not succeeding its validation.

I had a custom passwordvalidator, which was not being called when seeding the database, so the validation rules i was used to (minlength 4 instead of default 6) did not apply. Make sure your password (and all other fields for that matter) is passing validation.

Solution 3:

This is my method base on Valin answer, I have added roles in db and added password for user. This code is placed in Seed() method in Migrations>Configurations.cs.

// role (Const.getRoles() return string[] whit all roles)

    var RoleManager = new RoleManager<IdentityRole>(new RoleStore<IdentityRole>(context));
    for (int i = 0; i < Const.getRoles().Length; i++)
    {
        if (RoleManager.RoleExists(Const.getRoles()[i]) == false)
        {
            RoleManager.Create(new IdentityRole(Const.getRoles()[i]));
        }
    }

// user

    var UserManager = new UserManager<ApplicationUser>(new UserStore<ApplicationUser>(context));
    var PasswordHash = new PasswordHasher();
    if (!context.Users.Any(u => u.UserName == "[email protected]"))
    {
        var user = new ApplicationUser
        {
             UserName = "[email protected]",
             Email = "[email protected]",
             PasswordHash = PasswordHash.HashPassword("123456")
         };

         UserManager.Create(user);
         UserManager.AddToRole(user.Id, Const.getRoles()[0]);
    }