-from sqlalchemy import MetaData, Table, create_engine, orm
+from sqlalchemy import MetaData, Table, engine_from_config, orm
+from ..defaults import get_default_db_uri
from .tables import metadata
-def connect(uri):
+
+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[0:5] == 'mysql':
# MySQL uses latin1 for connections by default even if the server is
table.kwargs['mysql_charset'] = 'utf8'
### Connect
- engine = create_engine(uri)
+ engine_args[engine_prefix + 'url'] = uri
+ engine = engine_from_config(engine_args, prefix=engine_prefix)
conn = engine.connect()
metadata.bind = engine
- sm = orm.sessionmaker(autoflush=True, autocommit=False, bind=engine)
+ 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