Support database URLs

We should be able to somehow support database URL’s

postgres://user:secret@localhost:5432/mydatabasename

We should be able to discuss the best way to approach this. Maybe we either have a function that returns the information in a correct format like:

# config/database.py
from masoniteorm.helpers import database_url

DATABASES = {
    'mysql': database_url(env("DATABASE_URL"))
}

Maybe this returns a dictionary.

Another option is maybe just adding a URL attribute, and if it exists, use that instead of all the other config options:

# config/database.py
from masoniteorm.helpers import database_url

DATABASES = {
    'mysql': {
        "user": "..",
        "password": "..",
        "url": "mysql://user:secret@localhost:5432/mydatabasename"
    }
}

If url is set, use that, if not then don’t use it?

Open for discussion. Can see how other libraries do this

[girardinsamuel]

Yes django-environ is using dj-database-url internally 😉

[girardinsamuel]

I have give it a try, let me know what you think !