From 5874952a8e799783c16e87e427fc13272f581843 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:04:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Improved error message when DATABASE_ENGINE is invalid. It
now displays a list of all available database backends
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@215 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
---
django/core/db/__init__.py | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/django/core/db/__init__.py b/django/core/db/__init__.py
index 17e3d2a7fd..6b104ac161 100644
--- a/django/core/db/__init__.py
+++ b/django/core/db/__init__.py
@@ -18,8 +18,15 @@ from django.conf.settings import DATABASE_ENGINE
try:
dbmod = __import__('django.core.db.backends.%s' % DATABASE_ENGINE, '', '', [''])
except ImportError:
+ # The database backend wasn't found. Display a helpful error message
+ # listing all possible database backends.
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
- raise ImproperlyConfigured, "Your DATABASE_ENGINE setting, %r, is invalid. Is it spelled correctly?" % DATABASE_ENGINE
+ import os
+ backend_dir = os.path.join(__path__[0], 'backends')
+ available_backends = [f[:-3] for f in os.listdir(backend_dir) if f.endswith('.py') and not f.startswith('__init__')]
+ available_backends.sort()
+ raise ImproperlyConfigured, "Your DATABASE_ENGINE setting, %r, is invalid. Is it spelled correctly? Available options are: %s" % \
+ (DATABASE_ENGINE, ', '.join(map(repr, available_backends)))
DatabaseError = dbmod.DatabaseError
db = dbmod.DatabaseWrapper()