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Django settings from env.
"""Utility for pulling settings from the environment."""
import os
from urllib.parse import urlparse
class EnvParser:
"""Utility for getting settings from the OS environ.
Instantiate with the name of an env var to get the current mode from (that
env var should be set to one of VALID_MODES, or not set), then call the
instantiated parser to parse individual settings from the environ (see
docstring for ``__call__``).
"""
VALID_MODES = ['dev', 'prod']
DEFAULT_MODE = VALID_MODES[0]
NOT_PROVIDED = object()
def __init__(self, mode_env_var):
self.mode = os.environ.get(mode_env_var, self.DEFAULT_MODE)
if self.mode not in self.VALID_MODES:
raise ValueError(
"%s must be one of %s" % (self.mode, self.VALID_MODES))
def __call__(self, keys, coerce=str, default=NOT_PROVIDED):
"""Utility for getting settings from the OS environ.
First argument is either a string (an environment variable to get) or a
list of strings (a list of environment variables, where the first one
that exists will be used).
The ``coerce`` argument should be a unary function to convert the
environment variable's value (which will always be a string) into the
appropriate Python data type (the default is to leave it as a string).
The ``default`` argument can be set to a value to use if the given
environment variable(s) are not found. The ``coerce`` function is still
applied to the default value, unless the default is ``None``.
The default can also be a dictionary where the keys are mode names
(e.g. 'dev', 'prod') and the values are the default to use for that
mode. If the default is not given (or the default is a dictionary and
no default is given for the current mode) and the given environment
variable(s) are not found, ``ValueError`` is raised.
"""
if isinstance(keys, str):
keys = [keys]
for key in keys:
val = os.environ.get(key)
if val is not None:
break
if val is None:
try:
default = default.get(self.mode, self.NOT_PROVIDED)
except AttributeError: # default is not a dictionary
pass
if default is self.NOT_PROVIDED:
raise ValueError(
"Environment variable %r is required." % keys)
val = default
return coerce(val) if val is not None else val
def parse_boolean(s):
"""Parse an environment variable string into a boolean.
Considers empty string, '0', 'no', or 'false' (case insensitive) to be
``False``; all other values are ``True``.
"""
return s.lower() not in {'', '0', 'no', 'false'}
def parse_comma_list(s):
"""Parse comma-separated list in env var to Python list."""
if not s.strip():
return []
return [b.strip() for b in s.split(',')]
def parse_database_url(url):
"""Parse a database URI into a Django db config dictionary.
Also adds an ``ENGINE`` key: ``django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2`` for Postgres. No other
database is currently supported.
E.g. parses ``postgres://user:pass@host:port/dbname`` into::
{
'NAME': 'dbname',
'USER': 'user',
'PASSWORD': 'pass',
'HOST': 'host',
'PORT': 'port',
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
}
"""
url_parts = urlparse(url)
return {
'NAME': url_parts.path[1:],
'USER': url_parts.username,
'PASSWORD': url_parts.password,
'HOST': url_parts.hostname,
'PORT': url_parts.port,
'ENGINE': {
'postgres': 'django.db.backends.postgres',
}[url_parts.scheme],
}
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