# IDENTITY: backend/database.py # VERSION: 1.2.0 # ⚙️ GEAR 1.2: The Cloud-Ready Database (PostgreSQL/SQLite) import os from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, declarative_base # Use DATABASE_URL from environment (Neon), fallback to local SQLite for development SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL = os.getenv("DATABASE_URL", "sqlite:///./edu_ai_vault.db") # Fix for Neon/Heroku: SQLAlchemy requires 'postgresql://' instead of 'postgres://' if SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL.startswith("postgres://"): SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL = SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL.replace("postgres://", "postgresql://", 1) # connect_args={"check_same_thread": False} is ONLY required for SQLite engine_args = {} if SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL.startswith("sqlite"): engine_args["connect_args"] = {"check_same_thread": False} # Setting up the engine engine = create_engine(SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL, **engine_args) # SessionLocal is the actual database session we use to query and save data SessionLocal = sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine) # Base class for our database models Base = declarative_base() # Dependency to get the DB session in our FastAPI routes def get_db(): db = SessionLocal() try: yield db finally: db.close()