To the maintainers of third-party Django database backends (like DB2, etc.) and whoever else is hacking/patching/corrupting the code in django.db.backends for fun or profit --
With the help of Alex Gaynor, I've just checked in a light refactoring of the database backends such that Django database objects (BaseDatabaseWrapper instances) now keep track of their own database settings. This makes it easier to add multiple-database support to Django, and it's cleaner overall for the connection objects to deal with dictionaries rather than bulky Django settings module objects. This is backwards-compatible for end users but will likely break third-party database backends or any other code that hacks around in there. Specific API changes are: * BaseDatabaseWrapper.__init__() now takes a settings_dict instead of a settings module. It's called settings_dict to disambiguate, and for easy grepability. This should be a dictionary containing DATABASE_NAME, etc. * BaseDatabaseWrapper has a settings_dict attribute instead of an options attribute. BaseDatabaseWrapper.options is now BaseDatabaseWrapper['DATABASE_OPTIONS'] * BaseDatabaseWrapper._cursor() no longer takes a settings argument. * BaseDatabaseClient.__init__() now takes a connection argument (a DatabaseWrapper instance) instead of no arguments. The full changeset is here: http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/10026 It's a pretty straightforward refactoring, but if you have any technical questions on how to upgrade third-party backends or your own hacks, please just respond to this and I'll try to help. If you don't get a response within a day or so, just e-mail me off-list to get my attention. Adrian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
