def clearAllNotificationsInteractiveConsoleScriptEntryPoint(cls):
""" Interactive utility for manually clearing out all notifications.
Meant to be used as a console script entry point, defined in setup.py.
User will be prompted with a stern warning to delete notifications, and
required to enter "Yes-" followed by a random integer.
"""
engine = monitorsdb.engineFactory()
expectedAnswer = "Yes-%s" % (random.randint(1, 30),)
answer = raw_input(
"Attention! You are about to do something irreversible, and potentially"
" dangerous.\n"
"\n"
"To back out immediately without making any changes, feel free to type "
"anything but \"{}\" in the prompt below, and press return.\n"
"\n"
"Should you choose to continue, all notifications in the DATABASE \"{}\""
"will be PERMANENTLY DELETED.\n"
"\n"
"Are you sure you want to continue? "
.format(expectedAnswer, engine))
if answer.strip() != expectedAnswer:
print "Aborting - Wise choice, my friend. Bye."
return
# Disable `No value passed for parameter 'dml' in function call
# (no-value-for-parameter)` warnings
# pylint: disable=E1120
cmd = monitorDispatcherTable.delete()
@monitorsdb.retryOnTransientErrors
def _executeWithRetries():
monitorsdb.engineFactory().execute(cmd)
_executeWithRetries()
print "Notifications deleted."
