:param key:

        :param val:

        :param type:

        :return:

        """

        res = cls.get_by_name(key)

        if not res:

            val = Optional.extract(val)

            type = Optional.extract(type)

            res = cls(key, val, type)

        else:

            res.app_settings_name = key

            if not isinstance(val, Optional):

                # update if set

                res.app_settings_value = val

            if not isinstance(type, Optional):

                # update if set

                res.app_settings_type = type

        return res

    @classmethod

    def get_app_settings(cls, cache=False):

        ret = cls.query()

        if cache:

            ret = ret.options(FromCache("sql_cache_short", "get_hg_settings"))

        if not ret:

            raise Exception('Could not get application settings !')

        settings = {}

        for each in ret:

            settings[each.app_settings_name] = \

                each.app_settings_value

        return settings

    @classmethod

    def get_auth_plugins(cls, cache=False):

        auth_plugins = cls.get_by_name("auth_plugins").app_settings_value

        return auth_plugins

    @classmethod

    def get_auth_settings(cls, cache=False):

        ret = cls.query()\

                .filter(cls.app_settings_name.startswith('auth_')).all()

        fd = {}

        for row in ret:

        return fd

    @classmethod

    def get_default_repo_settings(cls, cache=False, strip_prefix=False):

        ret = cls.query()\

                .filter(cls.app_settings_name.startswith('default_')).all()

        fd = {}

        for row in ret:

            key = row.app_settings_name

            if strip_prefix:

                key = remove_prefix(key, prefix='default_')

            fd.update({key: row.app_settings_value})

        return fd

    @classmethod

    def get_server_info(cls):

        import pkg_resources

        import platform

        import kallithea

        from kallithea.lib.utils import check_git_version

        mods = [(p.project_name, p.version) for p in pkg_resources.working_set]

        info = {

            'modules': sorted(mods, key=lambda k: k[0].lower()),

            'py_version': platform.python_version(),

            'platform': safe_unicode(platform.platform()),

            'kallithea_version': kallithea.__version__,

            'git_version': safe_unicode(check_git_version()),

            'git_path': kallithea.CONFIG.get('git_path')

        }

        return info

class Ui(Base, BaseModel):

    __tablename__ = DB_PREFIX + 'ui'

    __table_args__ = (

        UniqueConstraint('ui_key'),

        {'extend_existing': True, 'mysql_engine': 'InnoDB',

         'mysql_charset': 'utf8', 'sqlite_autoincrement': True}

    )

    HOOK_UPDATE = 'changegroup.update'

    HOOK_REPO_SIZE = 'changegroup.repo_size'

    HOOK_PUSH = 'changegroup.push_logger'

    HOOK_PRE_PUSH = 'prechangegroup.pre_push'

    HOOK_PULL = 'outgoing.pull_logger'

    HOOK_PRE_PULL = 'preoutgoing.pre_pull'