hack to get djanto to work with ancient version of sqlite. don't do this at home.

update_django_to_pysqlite.sh

#!/bin/bash


function usage() {
	echo "Usage: $(basename "${0}")  <full path to repo directory>"
	echo
	echo "Example: $(basename "${0}") /path/to/github_project_dir"
	exit
}

function sourceVirtEnv() {
	# changing to app (repo) directory, not outside "stuff" directory

	if ! cd "${appDir}"; then
		echo "Exiting. ${appDir} does not exist"; echo
		exit
	elif [[ ! -L ../env ]]; then
		echo "Exiting. Missing 'env' Symlink, please fix and re-run the script"; echo
		exit
	fi

	if source "${appDir}/../env/bin/activate"; then
		echo "Sourcing virtual environment for: ${appDir}"
	else
		echo "Exiting. Unable to source virtual environment"
		exit
	fi
}

function fixTests() {
	# configure virtual environment to use pysqlite3 to circumvent rhel sqlite3 version issue

	sourceVirtEnv

	# The following only needs to be run for Django Projects, skip if django is not installed
	if pip freeze | grep -i django; then
		pip install pysqlite3   		# used in place of the system sqlite version (which is severely outdated)
		pip install pysqlite3-binary    # needed, otherwise I had to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
		# pip install responses   		# used by BDR in most projects

		# Change library 'from sqlite3' to 'from pysqlite3'
		sed -i 's/from sqlite3 import/from pysqlite3 import/g' "${appDir}/../env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py"

		# echo "Fixed tests by replacing sqlite with pysqlite3... deactivating virtual environment: ${VIRTUAL_ENV}"
	fi

	deactivate
}


main () { echo; }   ##  main ()  ##

ARGS=( $@ )
[[ ${#ARGS[@]} -lt 1 ]] && usage

appDir="$1"

sourceVirtEnv

fixTests

echo "project's django package has been updated to able to use sqlite."