django-dburl

NOTE: This library is a fork of dj-database-url, updated to allow for registering custom backends, passing DATABASES keys as configuration, and tested on more modern versions of Python and Django.

This simple Django utility allows you to utilize the 12factor inspired DATABASE_URL environment variable to configure your Django application.

The django_dburl.config method returns a Django database connection dictionary, populated with all the data specified in your URL. You can also pass in any keyword argument that Django's DATABASES setting accepts, such as CONN_MAX_AGE or OPTIONS. Any querystring parameters (such as ?timeout=20) will automatically be parsed and added to OPTIONS (OPTIONS["timeout"] = 20 in this case).

If you'd rather not use an environment variable, you can pass a URL in directly instead to django_dburl.parse.

Supported Databases

All built-in Django database backends are supported. See below for more details.

Installation

pip install django-dburl

Usage

Configure your database in settings.py from DATABASE_URL:

import django_dburl
DATABASES["default"] = django_dburl.config(CONN_MAX_AGE=600)

Provide a default:

DATABASES['default'] = django_dburl.config(default='postgres://...')

Parse an arbitrary Database URL:

DATABASES['default'] = django_dburl.parse('postgres://...', CONN_MAX_AGE=600)

The CONN_MAX_AGE option is the lifetime of a database connection in seconds and is available in Django 1.6+. If you do not set a value, it will default to 0 which is Django's historical behavior of using a new database connection on each request. Use None for unlimited persistent connections.

URL schemes

Registering custom schemes

import django_dburl

# These were supported out of the box in dj-database-url.
django_dburl.register("mysql.connector.django", "mysql-connector")
django_dburl.register("sql_server.pyodbc", "mssql", string_ports=True)
django_dburl.register(
    "django_redshift_backend",
    "redshift",
    options={
        "currentSchema": lambda values: {
            "options": "-c search_path={}".format(values[-1])
        },
    },
)