admin: Add helper to get the registry from requests.

rhodecode/admin/navigation.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 b' from pylons.i18n.translation import lazy'
 from zope.interface import implementer
 
 from rhodecode.admin.interfaces import IAdminNavigationRegistry
+from rhodecode.lib.utils import get_registry
 
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -35,6 +36,15 b" NavListEntry = collections.namedtuple('N"
 
 
 class NavEntry(object):
+    """
+    Represents an entry in the admin navigation.
+
+    :param key: Unique identifier used to store reference in an OrderedDict.
+    :param name: Display name, usually a translation string.
+    :param view_name: Name of the view, used generate the URL.
+    :param pyramid: Indicator to use pyramid for URL generation. This should
+        be removed as soon as we are fully migrated to pyramid.
+    """
 
     def __init__(self, key, name, view_name, pyramid=False):
         self.key = key
@@ -106,7 +116,7 b' def navigation_registry(request):'
     """
     Helper that returns the admin navigation registry.
     """
-    pyramid_registry = request.registry
+    pyramid_registry = get_registry(request)
     nav_registry = pyramid_registry.queryUtility(IAdminNavigationRegistry)
     return nav_registry
 

rhodecode/lib/utils.py

@@ -33,14 +33,14 b' import tempfile'
 import traceback
 import tarfile
 import warnings
-from os.path import abspath
-from os.path import dirname as dn, join as jn
+from os.path import join as jn
 
 import paste
 import pkg_resources
 from paste.script.command import Command, BadCommand
 from webhelpers.text import collapse, remove_formatting, strip_tags
 from mako import exceptions
+from pyramid.threadlocal import get_current_registry
 
 from rhodecode.lib.fakemod import create_module
 from rhodecode.lib.vcs.backends.base import Config
@@ -975,3 +975,16 b' def read_opensource_licenses():'
         _license_cache = json.loads(licenses)
 
     return _license_cache
+
+
+def get_registry(request):
+    """
+    Utility to get the pyramid registry from a request. During migration to
+    pyramid we sometimes want to use the pyramid registry from pylons context.
+    Therefore this utility returns `request.registry` for pyramid requests and
+    uses `get_current_registry()` for pylons requests.
+    """
+    try:
+        return request.registry
+    except AttributeError:
+        return get_current_registry()