Drop safir.database.create_sync_session

Drop support for creating sync database sessions. This was added for
vo-cutouts, which used Dramatiq as the task queuing system, since
Dramatiq is sync-only. We're standardizing on arq and on async Python
in general, and this code will no longer have any known callers after
vo-cutouts has been updated.

changelog.d/20240610_113548_rra_DM_44758.md

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+### Backwards-incompatible changes
+
+- Drop `safir.database.create_sync_session`. This was only used by services that used Dramatiq for task management, since Dramatiq is sync-only. Services based on Safir should switch to arq and use only async database connections.

docs/user-guide/database.rst

@@ -426,51 +426,6 @@ For example:
 If the statement fails, it will be retried up to five times, waiting two seconds between attempts, before raising the underlying exception.
 This is particularly useful for waiting for network or a database proxy to come up when a process has first started.
 
-Creating a sync database session
---------------------------------
-
-Although Safir is primarily intended to support asyncio applications, it may sometimes be necessary to write sync code that performs database operations.
-One example would be `Dramatiq <https://dramatiq.io/>`__ workers.
-This can be done with `~safir.database.create_sync_session`.
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   from safir.database import create_sync_session
-
-   from .config import config
-
-
-   session = create_sync_session(config.database_url, config.database_password)
-   with session.begin():
-       # ... do something with the session ...
-       pass
-
-Unlike `~safir.database.create_async_session`, `~safir.database.create_sync_session` handles creating the engine internally, since sync engines do not require any special shutdown measures.
-
-As with :ref:`async database sessions <probing-db-connection>`, you can pass a `structlog`_ logger and a statement to perform a connection check on the database before returning the session:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   import structlog
-   from safir.database import create_sync_session
-   from sqlalchemy.future import select
-
-   from .config import config
-   from .schema import User
-
-
-   logger = structlog.get_logger(config.logger_name)
-   stmt = select(User)
-   session = create_sync_session(
-       config.database_url,
-       config.database_password,
-       logger,
-       statement=stmt,
-   )
-
-Applications that use `~safir.database.create_sync_session` must declare a dependency on `psycopg2 <https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2/>`__ in their pip dependencies.
-Safir itself does not depend on psycopg2, even with the ``db`` extra, since most applications that use Safir for database support will only need async sessions.
-
 Setting an isolation level
 --------------------------
 

src/safir/database.py

@@ -3,21 +3,18 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
-import time
 from datetime import UTC, datetime, timedelta
 from typing import overload
 from urllib.parse import quote, urlparse
 
 from pydantic import SecretStr
-from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 from sqlalchemy.exc import OperationalError
 from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import (
     AsyncEngine,
     async_scoped_session,
     async_sessionmaker,
     create_async_engine,
 )
-from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
 from sqlalchemy.schema import CreateSchema
 from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import Select
 from sqlalchemy.sql.schema import MetaData
@@ -27,7 +24,6 @@
     "DatabaseInitializationError",
     "create_async_session",
     "create_database_engine",
-    "create_sync_session",
     "datetime_from_db",
     "datetime_to_db",
     "initialize_database",
@@ -38,9 +34,7 @@ class DatabaseInitializationError(Exception):
     """Database initialization failed."""
 
 
-def _build_database_url(
-    url: str, password: str | SecretStr | None, *, is_async: bool
-) -> str:
+def _build_database_url(url: str, password: str | SecretStr | None) -> str:
     """Build the authenticated URL for the database.
 
     Parameters
@@ -49,8 +43,6 @@ def _build_database_url(
         Database connection URL, not including the password.
     password
         Database connection password.
-    is_async
-        Whether the resulting URL should be async or not.
 
     Returns
     -------
@@ -62,26 +54,24 @@ def _build_database_url(
     ValueError
         A password was provided but the connection URL has no username.
     """
-    if is_async or password:
-        parsed_url = urlparse(url)
-        if is_async and parsed_url.scheme == "postgresql":
-            parsed_url = parsed_url._replace(scheme="postgresql+asyncpg")
-        if password:
-            if isinstance(password, SecretStr):
-                password = password.get_secret_value()
-            if not parsed_url.username:
-                raise ValueError(f"No username in database URL {url}")
-            password = quote(password, safe="")
-
-            # The username portion of the parsed URL does not appear to decode
-            # URL escaping of the username, so we should not quote it again or
-            # we will get double-quoting.
-            netloc = f"{parsed_url.username}:{password}@{parsed_url.hostname}"
-            if parsed_url.port:
-                netloc = f"{netloc}:{parsed_url.port}"
-            parsed_url = parsed_url._replace(netloc=netloc)
-        url = parsed_url.geturl()
-    return url
+    parsed_url = urlparse(url)
+    if parsed_url.scheme == "postgresql":
+        parsed_url = parsed_url._replace(scheme="postgresql+asyncpg")
+    if password:
+        if isinstance(password, SecretStr):
+            password = password.get_secret_value()
+        if not parsed_url.username:
+            raise ValueError(f"No username in database URL {url}")
+        password = quote(password, safe="")
+
+        # The username portion of the parsed URL does not appear to decode URL
+        # escaping of the username, so we should not quote it again or we will
+        # get double-quoting.
+        netloc = f"{parsed_url.username}:{password}@{parsed_url.hostname}"
+        if parsed_url.port:
+            netloc = f"{netloc}:{parsed_url.port}"
+        parsed_url = parsed_url._replace(netloc=netloc)
+    return parsed_url.geturl()
 
 
 @overload
@@ -173,7 +163,7 @@ def create_database_engine(
     ValueError
         A password was provided but the connection URL has no username.
     """
-    url = _build_database_url(url, password, is_async=True)
+    url = _build_database_url(url, password)
     if isolation_level:
         return create_async_engine(
             url, future=True, isolation_level=isolation_level
@@ -243,81 +233,6 @@ async def create_async_session(
         return session
 
 
-def create_sync_session(
-    url: str,
-    password: str | SecretStr | None,
-    logger: BoundLogger | None = None,
-    *,
-    isolation_level: str | None = None,
-    statement: Select | None = None,
-) -> scoped_session:
-    """Create a new sync database session.
-
-    Used instead of `create_database_engine` and `create_async_session` for
-    sync code, such as Dramatiq workers.  This combines engine creation with
-    session creation.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    url
-        Database connection URL, not including the password.
-    password
-        Database connection password.
-    logger
-        Logger for reporting errors.  Used only if a statement is provided.
-    isolation_level
-        If specified, sets a non-default isolation level for the database
-        engine.
-    statement
-        If provided, statement to run to check database connectivity.  This
-        will be modified with ``limit(1)`` before execution.  If not provided,
-        database connectivity will not be checked.
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    sqlalchemy.orm.scoping.scoped_session
-        The database session proxy.  This manages a separate session per
-        thread and therefore should be thread-safe.
-
-    Raises
-    ------
-    ValueError
-        A password was provided but the connection URL has no username.
-    """
-    url = _build_database_url(url, password, is_async=False)
-    if isolation_level:
-        engine = create_engine(url, isolation_level=isolation_level)
-    else:
-        engine = create_engine(url)
-    factory = sessionmaker(bind=engine, future=True)
-    session = scoped_session(factory)
-
-    # If no statement was provided, just return the scoped_session.
-    if statement is None:
-        return session
-
-    # A statement was provided, so we want to check connectivity and retry for
-    # up to ten seconds before returning the session.
-    for _ in range(5):
-        try:
-            with session.begin():
-                session.execute(statement.limit(1))
-                return session
-        except (ConnectionRefusedError, OperationalError, OSError):
-            if logger:
-                logger.info("database not ready, waiting two seconds")
-            session.remove()
-            time.sleep(2)
-            continue
-
-    # If we got here, we failed five times.  Try one last time without
-    # catching exceptions so that we raise the appropriate exception to our
-    # caller.
-    with session.begin():
-        session.execute(statement.limit(1))
-        return session
-
-
 async def initialize_database(
     engine: AsyncEngine,
     logger: BoundLogger,

tests/database_test.py

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
     _build_database_url,
     create_async_session,
     create_database_engine,
-    create_sync_session,
     datetime_from_db,
     datetime_to_db,
     initialize_database,
@@ -69,43 +68,28 @@ async def test_database_init(database_url: str) -> None:
 
 
 def test_build_database_url(database_url: str) -> None:
-    url = _build_database_url(database_url, None, is_async=False)
-    assert url == database_url
-
-    url = _build_database_url(
-        "postgresql://[email protected]/foo", "password", is_async=False
-    )
-    assert url == "postgresql://foo:[email protected]/foo"
-
-    url = _build_database_url(
-        "postgresql://[email protected]/foo", None, is_async=True
-    )
+    url = _build_database_url("postgresql://[email protected]/foo", None)
     assert url == "postgresql+asyncpg://[email protected]/foo"
 
-    url = _build_database_url(
-        "postgresql://[email protected]:5432/foo", None, is_async=True
-    )
+    url = _build_database_url("postgresql://[email protected]:5432/foo", None)
     assert url == "postgresql+asyncpg://[email protected]:5432/foo"
 
-    url = _build_database_url(
-        "postgresql://[email protected]/foo", "otherpass", is_async=True
-    )
+    url = _build_database_url("postgresql://[email protected]/foo", "otherpass")
     assert url == "postgresql+asyncpg://foo:[email protected]/foo"
 
     url = _build_database_url(
-        "postgresql://[email protected]:5433/foo", "otherpass", is_async=True
+        "postgresql://[email protected]:5433/foo", "otherpass"
     )
     assert url == "postgresql+asyncpg://foo:[email protected]:5433/foo"
 
     # Test that the username and password are quoted properly.
     url = _build_database_url(
         "postgresql://foo%[email protected]:4444/foo",
         "pass@word/with stuff",
-        is_async=False,
     )
     assert url == (
-        "postgresql://foo%40e.com:pass%40word%2Fwith%20stuff@127.0.0.1:4444"
-        "/foo"
+        "postgresql+asyncpg://foo%40e.com:pass%40word%2Fwith%20stuff"
+        "@127.0.0.1:4444/foo"
     )
     parsed_url = urlparse(url)
     assert parsed_url.username
@@ -142,36 +126,6 @@ async def test_create_async_session(database_url: str) -> None:
     await engine.dispose()
 
 
-@pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_create_sync_session(database_url: str) -> None:
-    logger = structlog.get_logger(__name__)
-    engine = create_database_engine(database_url, TEST_DATABASE_PASSWORD)
-    await initialize_database(engine, logger, schema=Base.metadata, reset=True)
-    await engine.dispose()
-
-    session = create_sync_session(
-        database_url,
-        TEST_DATABASE_PASSWORD,
-        logger,
-        statement=select(User),
-    )
-    with session.begin():
-        session.add(User(username="foo"))
-    session.remove()
-
-    # Use a query against a non-existent table as the liveness check and
-    # ensure that fails.
-    metadata = MetaData()
-    bad_table = Table("bad", metadata, Column("name", String(64)))
-    with pytest.raises(ProgrammingError):
-        session = create_sync_session(
-            database_url,
-            TEST_DATABASE_PASSWORD,
-            logger,
-            statement=select(bad_table),
-        )
-
-
 def test_datetime() -> None:
     tz_aware = datetime.now(tz=UTC)
     tz_naive = tz_aware.replace(tzinfo=None)