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authorDavid Baker <dbkr@users.noreply.github.com>2017-09-26 18:12:17 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-09-26 18:12:17 +0100
commitccc67d445b412f7634448796d2585665b988c153 (patch)
treed6730847b7cf97ca5b2a0ea792b0f502c5704f8e /synapse/util
parentMerge branch 'develop' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into release-v0.23.0 (diff)
parentunnecessary parens (diff)
downloadsynapse-ccc67d445b412f7634448796d2585665b988c153.tar.xz
Merge pull request #2473 from matrix-org/dbkr/factor_out_module_loading
Factor out module loading to a separate place
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@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- +# Copyright 2017 New Vector Ltd +# +# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); +# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. +# You may obtain a copy of the License at +# +# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 +# +# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software +# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, +# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. +# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and +# limitations under the License. + +import importlib + +from synapse.config._base import ConfigError + +def load_module(provider): + """ Loads a module with its config + Take a dict with keys 'module' (the module name) and 'config' + (the config dict). + + Returns + Tuple of (provider class, parsed config object) + """ + # We need to import the module, and then pick the class out of + # that, so we split based on the last dot. + module, clz = provider['module'].rsplit(".", 1) + module = importlib.import_module(module) + provider_class = getattr(module, clz) + + try: + provider_config = provider_class.parse_config(provider["config"]) + except Exception as e: + raise ConfigError( + "Failed to parse config for %r: %r" % (provider['module'], e) + ) + + return provider_class, provider_config