veekun_pokedex/pokedex/db/__init__.py
a_magical_me bbb7cb9907 Make load.py more idiomatic.
Also snuck an idiom into db/__init__.py.
2011-04-03 04:26:45 -07:00

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from sqlalchemy import MetaData, Table, engine_from_config, orm
from ..defaults import get_default_db_uri
from .tables import metadata
from .multilang import MultilangSession, MultilangScopedSession
def connect(uri=None, session_args={}, engine_args={}, engine_prefix=''):
"""Connects to the requested URI. Returns a session object.
With the URI omitted, attempts to connect to a default SQLite database
contained within the package directory.
Calling this function also binds the metadata object to the created engine.
"""
# If we didn't get a uri, fall back to the default
if uri is None:
uri = engine_args.get(engine_prefix + 'url', None)
if uri is None:
uri = get_default_db_uri()
### Do some fixery for MySQL
if uri.startswith('mysql:'):
# MySQL uses latin1 for connections by default even if the server is
# otherwise oozing with utf8; charset fixes this
if 'charset' not in uri:
uri += '?charset=utf8'
# Tables should be InnoDB, in the event that we're creating them, and
# use UTF-8 goddammit!
for table in metadata.tables.values():
table.kwargs['mysql_engine'] = 'InnoDB'
table.kwargs['mysql_charset'] = 'utf8'
### Connect
engine_args[engine_prefix + 'url'] = uri
engine = engine_from_config(engine_args, prefix=engine_prefix)
conn = engine.connect()
metadata.bind = engine
all_session_args = dict(autoflush=True, autocommit=False, bind=engine)
all_session_args.update(session_args)
sm = orm.sessionmaker(class_=MultilangSession, **all_session_args)
session = MultilangScopedSession(sm)
return session