[client-connection] add a repo property for dbapi compatibility
To ease transition from dbapi to repoapi we need the ClientConnection to be as
compatible as possible with the dbapi. Adding this method goes in this
direction.
It'll get deprecated in the deprecation wave that will conclude the repoapi
refactoring.
related to #2503918
from yams import schema2sql as y2sql
dbhelper = repo.system_source.dbhelper
rdefdef = schema['CWSource'].rdef('name')
attrtype = y2sql.type_from_constraints(dbhelper, rdefdef.object, rdefdef.constraints).split()[0]
cursor = session.cnxset['system']
sql('UPDATE entities SET asource = source WHERE asource is NULL')
dbhelper.change_col_type(cursor, 'entities', 'asource', attrtype, False)
dbhelper.change_col_type(cursor, 'entities', 'source', attrtype, False)
dbhelper.change_col_type(cursor, 'deleted_entities', 'source', attrtype, False)