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Manager for multiple database connections

Author:
rix
Posted:
August 6, 2009
Language:
Python
Version:
1.1
Score:
0 (after 2 ratings)

A Django model manager capable of using different database connections.

Inspired by:

There's a more detailed version in Portuguese in my blog: Manager para diferentes conexões de banco no Django

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Sample settings:

DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql_psycopg2'
DATABASE_NAME = 'default_db_name'
DATABASE_USER = 'user'
DATABASE_PASSWORD = ''
DATABASE_HOST = ''
DATABASE_PORT = ''

# Any omitted property will inherit the default value from settings
DATABASES = {
    'default': {},
    'alternative': {
        'DATABASE_NAME': 'alternative_db_name',
    },
}
"""

from django.conf import settings
from django.db import models, backend

# Default connection
db_settings = {
    'DATABASE_HOST': settings.DATABASE_HOST,
    'DATABASE_NAME': settings.DATABASE_NAME,
    'DATABASE_OPTIONS': settings.DATABASE_OPTIONS,
    'DATABASE_PASSWORD': settings.DATABASE_PASSWORD,
    'DATABASE_PORT': settings.DATABASE_PORT,
    'DATABASE_USER': settings.DATABASE_USER,
    'TIME_ZONE': settings.TIME_ZONE,
}

def prepare_db_settings(db_profile_name):
    """
    Takes custom database settings, replaces missing values with the
    defaults from settings and returns a new connection dict.
    """
    return dict(db_settings, **settings.DATABASES[db_profile_name])

class MultiDBManager(models.Manager):
    """
    A manager that can connect to different databases.
    """
    def use(self, db_profile_name):
    	"""
    	Return a queryset connected to a custom database.
    	"""
        # Get customized database settings to use in a new connection wrapper
        db_settings = prepare_db_settings(db_profile_name)

    	# Get the queryset and replace its connection
        qs = self.get_query_set()
        qs.query.connection = backend.DatabaseWrapper(db_settings)
        return qs

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Comments

piratus (on August 7, 2009):

I didn't test, but it seems that this manager has the same problem as the one described by Eric - the connections to the alternative databases are not closed which leads to MySQL errors after some time.

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rix (on August 7, 2009):

You may be right piratus, I don't know the default Django behaviour to close connections.

As we're using an alternative connection, Django may not be aware of it and will leave it open.

I'll try to fix this as soon as possible.

Thanks for commenting.

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