mediagoblin/mg_globals.py

   1 # GNU MediaGoblin -- federated, autonomous media hosting
   2 # Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 MediaGoblin contributors.  See AUTHORS.
   3 #
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  16 """
  17 In some places, we need to access the database, public_store, queue_store
  18 """
  19
  20 import gettext
  21 import pkg_resources
  22 import threading
  23
  24
  25 #############################
  26 # General mediagoblin globals
  27 #############################
  28
  29 # SQL database engine
  30 database = None
  31
  32 # should be the same as the
  33 public_store = None
  34 queue_store = None
  35
  36 # A WorkBenchManager
  37 workbench_manager = None
  38
  39 # A thread-local scope
  40 thread_scope = threading.local()
  41
  42 # gettext (this needs to default to English so it doesn't break
  43 #   in case we're running a script without the app like
  44 #   ./bin/gmg theme assetlink)
  45 thread_scope.translations = gettext.translation(
  46     'mediagoblin',
  47     pkg_resources.resource_filename(
  48         'mediagoblin', 'i18n'), ['en'], fallback=True)
  49
  50 # app and global config objects
  51 app_config = None
  52 global_config = None
  53
  54 # The actual app object
  55 app = None
  56
  57
  58 def setup_globals(**kwargs):
  59     """
  60     Sets up a bunch of globals in this module.
  61
  62     Takes the globals to setup as keyword arguments.  If globals are
  63     specified that aren't set as variables above, then throw an error.
  64     """
  65     from mediagoblin import mg_globals
  66
  67     for key, value in kwargs.iteritems():
  68         if not hasattr(mg_globals, key):
  69             raise AssertionError("Global %s not known" % key)
  70         setattr(mg_globals, key, value)