From 025cf4e8cc2c9a2a075f02b5c0e3676d261f25c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: iLLiCiTiT <jakub.trllo@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 11:23:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added function to get current context project settings
 `get_current_project_settings`

---
 pype/api.py               |  2 ++
 pype/settings/__init__.py |  2 ++
 pype/settings/lib.py      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pype/api.py b/pype/api.py
index 34e2c79845..3854da6d30 100644
--- a/pype/api.py
+++ b/pype/api.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from .settings import (
     get_system_settings,
     get_project_settings,
+    get_current_project_settings,
     get_anatomy_data,
     get_environments
 )
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ from .lib import _subprocess as subprocess
 __all__ = [
     "get_system_settings",
     "get_project_settings",
+    "get_current_project_settings",
     "get_anatomy_data",
     "get_environments",
 
diff --git a/pype/settings/__init__.py b/pype/settings/__init__.py
index 2f487038bd..479236b99a 100644
--- a/pype/settings/__init__.py
+++ b/pype/settings/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from .lib import (
     get_system_settings,
     get_project_settings,
+    get_current_project_settings,
     get_anatomy_data,
     get_environments
 )
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@ from .lib import (
 __all__ = (
     "get_system_settings",
     "get_project_settings",
+    "get_current_project_settings",
     "get_anatomy_data",
     "get_environments"
 )
diff --git a/pype/settings/lib.py b/pype/settings/lib.py
index 0b830dd5ab..23e303556e 100644
--- a/pype/settings/lib.py
+++ b/pype/settings/lib.py
@@ -464,6 +464,22 @@ def get_project_settings(project_name):
     return apply_overrides(studio_overrides, project_overrides)
 
 
+def get_current_project_settings():
+    """Project settings for current context project.
+
+    Project name should be stored in environment variable `AVALON_PROJECT`.
+    This function should be used only in host context where environment
+    variable must be set and should not happen that any part of process will
+    change the value of the enviornment variable.
+    """
+    project_name = os.environ.get("AVALON_PROJECT")
+    if not project_name:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "Missing context project in environemt variable `AVALON_PROJECT`."
+        )
+    return get_project_settings(project_name)
+
+
 def get_environments():
     """Calculated environment based on defaults and system settings.