From b807626b37e9ac743287bfc7e092e71d77da5c26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederick Muriuki Muriithi
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:47:50 -0600
Subject: Provide some utilities to fetch common config variables.

---
 uploader/configutils.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 uploader/configutils.py

(limited to 'uploader/configutils.py')

diff --git a/uploader/configutils.py b/uploader/configutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7cdb8b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uploader/configutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+"""Functions to fetch settings."""
+from pathlib import Path
+
+def fetch_setting(app, setting):
+    """Fetch a specified configuration `setting` from the `app` object."""
+    return app.config[setting]
+
+def uploads_dir(app) -> Path:
+    """Fetch the uploads directory"""
+    _dir = Path(fetch_setting(app, "UPLOADS_DIR")).absolute()
+    assert _dir.exists() and _dir.is_dir(), (
+        f"'{_dir}' needs to be an existing directory.")
+    return _dir
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