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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# File: portato/db/__init__.py
# This file is part of the Portato-Project, a graphical portage-frontend.
#
# Copyright (C) 2006-2009 René 'Necoro' Neumann
# This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
# the GNU General Public License version 2.
# There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
#
# Written by René 'Necoro' Neumann <necoro@necoro.net>

from __future__ import absolute_import

from ..session import Session, SectionDict
from ..helper import debug, warning, error

class UnknownDatabaseTypeError (Exception):
    pass

_SESSION = None

types = {
        "sql": (_("SQLite"), _("Uses an SQLite-database to store package information.\nMay take longer to generate at the first time, but has advantages if portato is re-started with an unchanged portage tree. Additionally it allows to use fast SQL expressions for fetching the data.")),
        "dict": (_("Hashmap"), _("Uses an in-memory hashmap to store package information.\nHas been used since at least version 0.3.3, but all information has to be regenerated on each startup."))
        }

def Database(type):
    global _SESSION

    if _SESSION is None:
        _SESSION = Session("db.cfg", name = "DB")
        _SESSION.load()

    if type == "sql":
        debug("Using SQLDatabase")
        try:
            from .sql import SQLDatabase
        except ImportError:
            warning(_("Cannot load SQLDatabase."))
            _TYPE = "dict"
            return Database()
        else:
            return SQLDatabase(SectionDict(_SESSION, "SQL"))

    elif type == "dict":
        debug("Using DictDatabase")
        from .dict import DictDatabase
        return DictDatabase(SectionDict(_SESSION, "dict"))
    
    else:
        error(_("Unknown database type: %s"), type)
        raise UnknownDatabaseTypeError, "type"