MatrixSynapse/synapse/util/module_loader.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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import importlib

from synapse.config._base import ConfigError


def load_module(provider):
    """ Loads a module with its config
    Take a dict with keys 'module' (the module name) and 'config'
    (the config dict).

    Returns
        Tuple of (provider class, parsed config object)
    """
    # We need to import the module, and then pick the class out of
    # that, so we split based on the last dot.
    module, clz = provider["module"].rsplit(".", 1)
    module = importlib.import_module(module)
    provider_class = getattr(module, clz)

    try:
        provider_config = provider_class.parse_config(provider["config"])
    except Exception as e:
        raise ConfigError("Failed to parse config for %r: %r" % (provider["module"], e))

    return provider_class, provider_config