use db.get_redis

inventory_provider/routes/common.py

 import functools
 
-from flask import request, Response, current_app
-import redis
+from flask import request, Response
 
 
 def require_accepts_json(f):
@@ -21,14 +20,3 @@ def require_accepts_json(f):
                 mimetype="text/html")
         return f(*args, **kwargs)
     return decorated_function
-
-
-def redis_connection():
-    """
-    just a common place for acquiring a redis connection
-    :return: a redis connection
-    """
-    redis_config = current_app.config["INVENTORY_PROVIDER_CONFIG"]["redis"]
-    return redis.StrictRedis(
-        host=redis_config["hostname"],
-        port=redis_config["port"])

inventory_provider/routes/poller.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import json
 
 from flask import Blueprint, Response, jsonify
 from lxml import etree
+from inventory_provider import db
 from inventory_provider import juniper
 from inventory_provider.routes import common
 
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ routes = Blueprint('poller-support-routes', __name__)
 @routes.route('/interfaces/<hostname>', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
 @common.require_accepts_json
 def poller_interface_oids(hostname):
-    r = common.redis_connection()
+    r = db.get_redis()
 
     netconf_string = r.hget(hostname, 'netconf')
     if not netconf_string: