From 46a4435e6540e943fa89f55f9bfa44e0fa8fc718 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alessandro Pasotti <elpaso@itopen.it>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 10:21:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use a function to access plugins_metadata_parser global
 object

---
 python/pyplugin_installer/plugindependencies.py | 6 +++---
 python/utils.py                                 | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/pyplugin_installer/plugindependencies.py b/python/pyplugin_installer/plugindependencies.py
index 16e9ae731d8..c340149fc9e 100644
--- a/python/pyplugin_installer/plugindependencies.py
+++ b/python/pyplugin_installer/plugindependencies.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2018, GISCE-TI S.L.'
 from configparser import NoOptionError, NoSectionError
 from .version_compare import compareVersions
 from . import installer as plugin_installer
-from qgis.utils import updateAvailablePlugins, plugins_metadata_parser
+from qgis.utils import updateAvailablePlugins, metadataParser
 
 
 def __plugin_name_map(plugin_data_values):
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def __get_plugin_deps(plugin_id):
     result = {}
     updateAvailablePlugins()
     try:
-        parser = plugins_metadata_parser[plugin_id]
+        parser = metadataParser()[plugin_id]
         plugin_deps = parser.get('general', 'plugin_dependencies')
     except (NoOptionError, NoSectionError, KeyError):
         return result
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def find_dependencies(plugin_id, plugin_data=None, plugin_deps=None, installed_p
 
     if installed_plugins is None:
         updateAvailablePlugins()
-        metadata_parser = plugins_metadata_parser
+        metadata_parser = metadataParser()
         installed_plugins = {metadata_parser[k].get('general', 'name'): metadata_parser[k].get('general', 'version') for k, v in metadata_parser.items()}
 
     if plugin_data is None:
diff --git a/python/utils.py b/python/utils.py
index be0d2d038b6..723027fb96b 100644
--- a/python/utils.py
+++ b/python/utils.py
@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@ def findPlugins(path):
         yield (pluginName, cp)
 
 
+def metadataParser():
+    """Used by other modules to access the local parser object"""
+    return plugins_metadata_parser
+
+
 def updateAvailablePlugins():
     """ Go through the plugin_paths list and find out what plugins are available. """
     # merge the lists