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api: use consistent way to extract users, repos, repo groups and user groups by id or name....
api: use consistent way to extract users, repos, repo groups and user groups by id or name. - makes usage of Number vs String to differenciate if we pick objec ID or it's name this will allow easy fetching of objects by either id or it's name, including numeric string name - fixes #5230

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Copyright (C) 2010-2017 RhodeCode GmbH
#
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#
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#
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#
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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 as 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