sqlemon 0.4.1

Manage sqlalchemy connections to local test and prod db's

Suppose you’re working on a project that uses Google App Engine, Google Cloud SQL, and sqlalchemy. In the course of testing, deploying etc., we want to connect to a couple of databases in different ways:

• App Engine project talking to production db

• Local tools (like mysql client or alembic) talking to production db

• Tests talking to local db

• Local tools talking to local db

Getting all the connections strings etc. right is kind annoying. This package helps solve that problem.

We provide two scripts:

• start_cloud_proxy: Runs the Google Cloud SQL proxy using an authentication token you downloaded when making a service account.

• start_mysql_client: Runs a client on your machine, connecting either to the production server (through the proxy) or to a local test database.

Whether you’re connecting to a cloud instance or a local server, both of these scripts decide which database to connect to by reading the evironment variable SQL_PROJECT_NAME. This variable must match the name of the database to which you’re trying to connect.

We assume you have your project’s source on your system at PROJECT_ROOT/, where PROJECT_ROOT is probably something like ~/src/<whatever>/. The file layout should look something like this:

├── PROJECT_ROOT/
│    ├── SQL_PROJECT_NAME/  <-- important
│    │   ├── __init__.py
│    │   ├── config.yaml    <-- Important
│    │   ├── alembic.ini
│    │   ├── alembic/
│    │   ├── lib/
│    │   ├── models.py
│    │   └── main.py
│    ├── README.md
│    ├── appengine_config.py
│    └── app.yaml

You must also have a directory at ~/.SQL_PROJECT_NAME with a couple of files described in the paragraph.

This package assumes there are three particular files to be available in your system:

• ~/.SQL_PROJECT_NAME/config.yaml

  ---
  cloud:
      USER: "root"
      PASSWORD: ...
  local:
      USER: "root"
      PASSWORD: ...
      HOST: "localhost"
      PORT: 3306

• ~/.SQL_PROJECT_NAME/auth-token.json: This is your proxy’s user account auth token.

• PROJECT_ROOT/SQL_PROJECT_NAME/config.yaml

  ---
  INSTANCE_CONNECTION_NAME: ...

Installing this package (into a virtualenv!) provides the command line script start_cloud_proxy, which starts the Google Cloud SQL proxy for you.

How to release

$ python setup.py register -r pypi(test)
$ python setup.py sdist upload -r pypi(test)