+# encoding: utf-8
+import re
+
from sqlalchemy import engine_from_config, orm
from ..defaults import get_default_db_uri
from .tables import Language, metadata
from .multilang import MultilangSession, MultilangScopedSession
+ENGLISH_ID = 9
+
def connect(uri=None, session_args={}, engine_args={}, engine_prefix=''):
"""Connects to the requested URI. Returns a session object.
uri = get_default_db_uri()
### Do some fixery for MySQL
- if uri[0:5] == '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:
all_session_args = dict(autoflush=True, autocommit=False, bind=engine)
all_session_args.update(session_args)
- sm = orm.sessionmaker(class_=MultilangSession, language_class=Language,
- **all_session_args)
+ sm = orm.sessionmaker(class_=MultilangSession,
+ default_language_id=ENGLISH_ID, **all_session_args)
session = MultilangScopedSession(sm)
- # Default to English. Warning, magic constant, blah blah. Trying to fetch
- # English here would kinda break on new databases. TODO still not an ideal
- # solution, I guess.
- session._default_language_id = 9
-
return session
+
+def identifier_from_name(name):
+ """Make a string safe to use as an identifier.
+
+ Valid characters are lowercase alphanumerics and "-". This function may
+ raise ValueError if it can't come up with a suitable identifier.
+
+ This function is useful for scripts which add things with names.
+ """
+ if isinstance(name, str):
+ identifier = name.decode('utf-8')
+ else:
+ identifier = name
+ identifier = identifier.lower()
+ identifier = identifier.replace(u'+', u' plus ')
+ identifier = re.sub(u'[ _–]+', u'-', identifier)
+ identifier = re.sub(u"['./;’(),:]", u'', identifier)
+ identifier = identifier.replace(u'é', u'e')
+ identifier = identifier.replace(u'♀', u'-f')
+ identifier = identifier.replace(u'♂', u'-m')
+ if identifier in (u'???', u'????'):
+ identifier = u'unknown'
+ elif identifier == u'!':
+ identifier = u'exclamation'
+ elif identifier == u'?':
+ identifier = u'question'
+
+ if not identifier.replace(u"-", u"").isalnum():
+ raise ValueError(identifier)
+ return identifier