Source code for BanzaiDB.database

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import re

import rethinkdb as r
from rethinkdb.errors import RqlDriverError

from BanzaiDB import config
from BanzaiDB import errors


[docs]def make_connection(): """ Make a connection to the RethinkDB database Pulls settings (host, port, database name & auth_key from BanzaiDBConfig()) ..note:: The RethinkDB connection is a context manager. Thus use this funtion like 'with make_connection():' :returns: a connection context manager """ cfg = config.BanzaiDBConfig() if not re.match("^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$", cfg['db_name']): raise errors.InvalidDBName(cfg['db_name']) try: connection = r.connect(host=cfg['db_host'], port=cfg['port'], db=cfg['db_name'], auth_key=cfg['auth_key']) except RqlDriverError: raise RqlDriverError("No database connection could be established.") return connection