Check connections outside app factory

Check the connections in the wsgi.py file, outside of the `create_app`
application factory to avoid issues with tests failing due to test app
not initialising because of missing connections in the test
environment.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/qc_app/__init__.py b/qc_app/__init__.py
index eefe236..6b760b9 100644
--- a/qc_app/__init__.py
+++ b/qc_app/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ from flask import Flask
 from .entry import entrybp
 from .parse import parsebp
 from .dbinsert import dbinsertbp
-from .check_connections import check_db, check_redis
 
 def instance_path():
     """Retrieve the `instance_path`. Raise an exception if not defined."""
@@ -26,10 +25,6 @@ def create_app(instance_dir):
     app.config.from_pyfile(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "etc/default_config.py"))
     app.config.from_pyfile("config.py") # Override defaults with instance path
 
-    # Check the connection
-    check_db(app.config["SQL_URI"])
-    check_redis(app.config["REDIS_URL"])
-
     # setup blueprints
     app.register_blueprint(entrybp, url_prefix="/")
     app.register_blueprint(parsebp, url_prefix="/parse")