Connection¶

Functions for managing database connections in VAST Orbit.

Functions¶

Important

For a comprehensive guide to creating connections, see Connection.

Read¶

`auto_connect`()	Automatically creates a connection using the auto-connection.
`available_connections`()	Displays all available connections.
`connect`(section[, dsn])	Connects to the database.
`current_connection`()	Returns the current database connection.
`current_cursor`()	Returns the current database cursor.
`get_connection_file`()	Gets (and creates, if necessary) the auto-connection file.
`get_confparser`([dsn])	Parses the input DSN and returns the linked Config Parser.
`read_dsn`(section[, dsn])	Reads the DSN information from the `vastorbit_CONNECTION` environment variable or the input file.
`vast_connection`([section, dsn, config])	Reads the input DSN and creates a VAST DataBase connection using Trino.
`vastorbitlab_connection`()	Returns the vastorbitLab connection, if possible.

Write¶

`change_auto_connection`(name)	Changes the current auto connection.
`new_connection`(conn_info[, name, auto, ...])	Saves the new connection in the vastorbit connection file.
`set_connection`(conn)	Saves a custom connection to the vastorbit object.

Close/Delete¶

`close_connection`()	Closes the connection to the database.
`delete_connection`(name)	Deletes a specified connection from the connection file.

Global Connection¶

global_connection.GlobalConnection()

Main Class to store the Global Connection used by all vastorbit objects.

Methods:

`GlobalConnection.get_connection`()	Returns the current connection.
`GlobalConnection.get_dsn`()	Returns the current dsn.
`GlobalConnection.get_dsn_section`()	Returns the current dsn section.
`GlobalConnection.set_connection`(conn[, ...])	Sets the current connection.