added command to assign role

Author: FullStackkDev

README.md

@@ -203,6 +203,21 @@ authorization: JWT_TOKEN (returned by Login request)
 
 <br />
 
+## ✨ Update role for existing user
+
+Using npm: 
+
+```npm run update-role [user_id] [role_id (optional)]```
+
+Using yarn: 
+
+```npm run update-role [user_id] [role_id (optional)]```
+
+- [user_id] is the id of existing user to update role for.
+- [role_id] is the id of role: 1 for admin & 2 for user. If you don't provide any role_id it would update user to admin role.
+
+<br />
+
 ## ✨ Run the Tests
 
 ```yarn test```

package.json

@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
         "lint": "eslint src --ext .ts",
         "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.build.json",
         "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
-        "typeorm": "node --require ts-node/register ./node_modules/typeorm/cli.js"
+        "typeorm": "node --require ts-node/register ./node_modules/typeorm/cli.js",
+        "update-role": "ts-node-dev src/update-role.ts"
     },
     "dependencies": {
         "axios": "^1.2.0",

src/update-role.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import "dotenv/config";
+import User from "./models/user";
+import { connection, connect } from "./server/database";
+const userId = process.argv[2];
+const updatedRole = process.argv[3] ?? "1";
+
+const updateUser = async () => {
+  await connect();
+  const userRepository = connection!.getRepository(User);
+  userRepository.find({ id: userId }).then((user: any) => {
+    if (!user.length) {
+      console.error( "No user exists with the given id" )
+      return;
+    }
+    const query = { id: user[0].id };
+    const newValues = { user_role: updatedRole };
+    userRepository
+      .update(query, newValues)
+      .then(() => console.log(`User updated successfully with role ${newValues.user_role}`)
+      )
+      .catch((err) => console.error(`error in updating user: ${err.message}`)
+      );
+  })
+  .catch((err) =>  console.log(`error: ${err.message}`)
+  )
+};
+
+updateUser();