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Location: kallithea/rhodecode/lib/vcs/utils/imports.py - annotation

Mads Kiilerich
settings: simplify handling of form values for hooks and extensions

This makes simpler to follow the code path and search for input input field
names. The form field names are hardcoded in the template, so generating them
programmatically in the controller do not really add any flexibility.
from rhodecode.lib.vcs.exceptions import VCSError


def import_class(class_path):
    """
    Returns class from the given path.

    For example, in order to get class located at
    ``vcs.backends.hg.MercurialRepository``:

        try:
            hgrepo = import_class('vcs.backends.hg.MercurialRepository')
        except VCSError:
            # hadle error
    """
    splitted = class_path.split('.')
    mod_path = '.'.join(splitted[:-1])
    class_name = splitted[-1]
    try:
        class_mod = __import__(mod_path, {}, {}, [class_name])
    except ImportError, err:
        msg = "There was problem while trying to import backend class. "\
            "Original error was:\n%s" % err
        raise VCSError(msg)
    cls = getattr(class_mod, class_name)

    return cls