Database

A virtualized class for storing opencrowd components

class opencrowd.model.database.Database(db_host, db_port)

The values below will generally default from opencrowd.config.redis

Parameters:

• db_host (str) – database ip address
• db_port (int) – port number to access on the database

connect()

Currently connects to a redis host.

delete(key)

Delete the key and its associated value from the database

Parameters:key (str) – key and associated value to delete

exists(opencrowd_id)

Check if an opencrowd object exists

Parameters:opencrowd_id (str) – HEADER + id of the object to lookup Returns:True or False Return type:bool

get(key)

Unpickle the value from the database

Parameters:key (str) – Key to unpickle (HEADER + opencrowd_id)

set(key, value)

Pickles the value and sets the database based on k:v

Parameters:

• key (str) – the access key to store the value under (HEADER + opencrowd_id)
• value (object) – value to store under the access key