From 8d9bdfd6e07d9acac50cae53de8d32436873e7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: neil-pozetroninc <neil@pozetroninc.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 01:29:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] BUGFIX: RethinkDB backend connection

Updating the RethinkDB backend to check if a connection exists before creating one.
---
 kaneda/backends/rethink.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kaneda/backends/rethink.py b/kaneda/backends/rethink.py
index 703d488..56e376b 100644
--- a/kaneda/backends/rethink.py
+++ b/kaneda/backends/rethink.py
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ def __init__(self, db, table_name=None, connection=None, host=None, port=None, u
                 self.connection = r.connect(host=host, port=port, db=db, timeout=timeout)
         self.db = db
         self.table_name = table_name
+        if self.connection is None:
+            self.connection = r.connect(db=db, timeout=timeout)
         self._create_database()
 
     def _get_payload(self, name, value, tags, id_):