python - how can I check database connection to mysql in django

Question

how can I do it?

I thought, I can read something from database, but it looks too much, is there something like?:

settings.DATABASES['default'].check_connection()

Answer 1

All you need to do is start a application and if its not connected it will fail. Other way you can try is on shell try following -

from django.db import connections
from django.db.utils import OperationalError
db_conn = connections['default']
try:
    c = db_conn.cursor()
except OperationalError:
    connected = False
else:
    connected = True