Added abilities' generations to the database.

[zzz-pokedex.git] / pokedex / db / __init__.py

diff --git a/pokedex/db/__init__.py b/pokedex/db/__init__.py
index ced519b..9e1b38c 100644 (file)
--- a/pokedex/db/__init__.py
+++ b/pokedex/db/__init__.py
@@ -1,13 +1,24 @@
+import pkg_resources
+
 from sqlalchemy import MetaData, Table, create_engine, orm
 
 from .tables import metadata
 
-def connect(uri, **kwargs):
+def connect(uri=None, session_args={}, engine_args={}):
     """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.
     """
 
+    # Default to a URI within the package, which was hopefully created at some point
+    if not uri:
+        sqlite_path = pkg_resources.resource_filename('pokedex',
+                                                      'data/pokedex.sqlite')
+        uri = 'sqlite:///' + sqlite_path
+
     ### Do some fixery for MySQL
     if uri[0:5] == 'mysql':
         # MySQL uses latin1 for connections by default even if the server is
@@ -22,13 +33,13 @@ def connect(uri, **kwargs):
             table.kwargs['mysql_charset'] = 'utf8'
 
     ### Connect
-    engine = create_engine(uri)
+    engine = create_engine(uri, **engine_args)
     conn = engine.connect()
     metadata.bind = engine
 
-    session_args = dict(autoflush=True, autocommit=False, bind=engine)
-    session_args.update(kwargs)
-    sm = orm.sessionmaker(**session_args)
+    all_session_args = dict(autoflush=True, autocommit=False, bind=engine)
+    all_session_args.update(session_args)
+    sm = orm.sessionmaker(**all_session_args)
     session = orm.scoped_session(sm)
 
     return session