# HG changeset patch
# User Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
# Date 1284629305 -7200
# Node ID 7eb5f1aed72898bafd9d60239ae703bf94fc715b
# Parent  da77d3f95079079edc391c28faeef86446138130
[repo] new method on repo+dbapi.Connection to get a value from repository's configuration

diff -r da77d3f95079 -r 7eb5f1aed728 dbapi.py
--- a/dbapi.py	Thu Sep 16 11:27:50 2010 +0200
+++ b/dbapi.py	Thu Sep 16 11:28:25 2010 +0200
@@ -639,6 +639,11 @@
         return self._repo.get_schema()
 
     @check_not_closed
+    def get_option_value(self, option):
+        """return the value for `option` in the repository configuration."""
+        return self._repo.get_option_value(option)
+
+    @check_not_closed
     def describe(self, eid):
         return self._repo.describe(self.sessionid, eid, **self._txid())
 
diff -r da77d3f95079 -r 7eb5f1aed728 server/repository.py
--- a/server/repository.py	Thu Sep 16 11:27:50 2010 +0200
+++ b/server/repository.py	Thu Sep 16 11:28:25 2010 +0200
@@ -461,6 +461,14 @@
         cubes.remove('cubicweb')
         return cubes
 
+    def get_option_value(self, option):
+        """Return the value for `option` in the configuration.
+
+        This is a public method, not requiring a session id.
+        """
+        # XXX we may want to check we don't give sensible information
+        return self.config[option]
+
     @cached
     def get_versions(self, checkversions=False):
         """Return the a dictionary containing cubes used by this instance