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"""
Session Handling for SQLAlchemy backend
"""

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

from nova import flags

FLAGS = flags.FLAGS

_ENGINE = None
_MAKER = None


def get_session(autocommit=True, expire_on_commit=False):
    """Helper method to grab session"""
    global _ENGINE
    global _MAKER
    if not _MAKER:
        if not _ENGINE:
            _ENGINE = create_engine(FLAGS.sql_connection,
                                    pool_recycle=FLAGS.sql_idle_timeout,
                                    echo=False)
        _MAKER = (sessionmaker(bind=_ENGINE,
                                autocommit=autocommit,
                                expire_on_commit=expire_on_commit))
    session = _MAKER()
    return session
