Concise way to externalize database URL

[jbrucker]

WongNung/pdtx/settings.py

Lines 122 to 131 in 0cbb30d

	DATABASES = {
	"default": {
	"ENGINE": "django.db.backends.postgresql",
	"NAME": config("DATABASE_NAME", default="wongnung"),
	"USER": config("DATABASE_USERNAME", default="wongnung"),
	"PASSWORD": config("DATABASE_PASSWORD", default="password"),
	"HOST": config("DATABASE_HOST", default="localhost"),
	"PORT": config("DATABASE_PORT", default="5432"),
	}
	}

Looks like WongNung is the only team to externalize their database URL!
Good.

FYI, the package dj-database-url gives you a concise way of doing this, using just one variable.
The URL syntax is standard, too.

import dj_database_url as db_url

DATABASES = {
    'default': config('DATABASE_URL', cast=db_url.parse,
                       default="sqlite:///"+BASE_DIR+"db.sqlite3")
 }

and in .env or as an environment variable.

DATABASE_URL = postgres://username:password@localhost:5432/database_name

you can also omit parts (like the password) and specify them separately in settings.py, as you did.

[GToidZ]

Thank you for your suggestion, though we would not work on this enhancement anytime soon during this week. Maybe after we have more free time, we'll look into this option.