accepts Any by default (not sure it's necessary though, anyway it will be reomved in 3.2
from AccessControl import getSecurityManager
from cubicweb.dbapi import connect, Connection, Cursor
from cubicweb.common.utils import ResultSet, ResultSetIterator, ResultSetRow, Entity
Connection.__allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__ = 1
Cursor.__allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__ = 1
ResultSet.__allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__ = 1
ResultSetIterator.__allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__ = 1
ResultSetRow.__allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__ = 1
Entity.__allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__ = 1
CNX_CACHE = {}
def get_connection(context, user=None, password=None,
host=None, database=None, group='cubicweb'):
"""get a connection on an cubicweb server"""
request = context.REQUEST
zope_user = getSecurityManager().getUser()
if user is None:
user = zope_user.getId()
key = (user, host, database)
try:
return CNX_CACHE[key]
except KeyError:
if password is None:
password = zope_user._getPassword()
cnx = connect(user, password, host, database, group)
CNX_CACHE[key] = cnx
return cnx