Issue #2088 asked for a wrapper to be created for
`create_stream_if_needed` (called `ensure_stream`) for the 25 times that
`create_stream_if_needed` is called and ignores whether the stream was
created. This commit replaces relevant occurences of
`create_stream_if_needed` with `ensure_stream`, including imports.
The changes weren't significant enough to add any tests or do any
additional manual testing.
The refactoring intended to make the API easier to use in most cases.
The majority of uses of `create_stream_if_needed` ignored the second
parameter.
Fixes: #2088.
This new library is intended to make it easy for management commands
to access a realm or a user in a realm without having to duplicate any
of the annoying parsing/extraction code.
Finishes the refactoring started in c1bbd8d. The goal of the refactoring is
to change the argument to get_realm from a Realm.domain to a
Realm.string_id. The steps were
* Add a new function, get_realm_by_string_id.
* Change all calls to get_realm to use get_realm_by_string_id instead.
* Remove get_realm.
* (This commit) Rename get_realm_by_string_id to get_realm.
Part of a larger migration to remove the Realm.domain field entirely.
get_realm is better in two key ways:
* It uses memcached to fetch the data from the cache and thus is faster.
* It does a case-insensitive query and thus is more safe.
This needs to be deployed to both staging and prod at the same
off-peak time (and the schema migration run).
At the time it is deployed, we need to make a few changes directly in
the database:
(1) UPDATE django_content_type set app_label='zerver' where app_label='zephyr';
(2) UPDATE south_migrationhistory set app_name='zerver' where app_name='zephyr';
(imported from commit eb3fd719571740189514ef0b884738cb30df1320)