Get a database connection as defined by a yaml configuration or environment variables — get_connection • hscidbutil

Get a database connection as defined by a yaml configuration or environment variables

Usage

get_connection(
  params = here("params.yaml"),
  secret = here("secret.yaml"),
  key = "db",
  bigint = "integer",
  ...
)

Arguments

params: a params.yaml-file that defines some of db_host, db_name and db_user under a given key
secret: a secret.yaml-file that defines some of db_host, db_name, db_user and db_pass under a given key
key: the key in the yaml file to extract
bigint: how should the connection convert bigints
...: Other arguments passed on to DBI::dbConnect(),

Value

the MariaDB connection object