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Mads Kiilerich

invalidation: don't create CacheInvalidation records on startup

Creating the records early gave an advantage before lightweight was introduced.
With lightweight it is no longer necessary.

The records will be created on demand anyway and there is no reason to create and
maintain them before they are used.

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