F create link

Summary

create_entity_link function to create html links to entities; useful for logging

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unittest

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src/caosadvancedtools/crawler.py

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ from .guard import RETRIEVE, ProhibitedException
 from .guard import global_guard as guard
 from .serverside.helper import send_mail as main_send_mail
 from .suppressKnown import SuppressKnown
+from .utils import create_entity_link
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -103,15 +104,8 @@ def apply_list_of_updates(to_be_updated, update_flags={},
 
     info = "UPDATE: updating the following entities\n"
 
-    baseurl = db.configuration.get_config()["Connection"]["url"]
-
-    def make_clickable(txt, id):
-        return "<a href='{}/Entity/{}'>{}</a>".format(baseurl, id, txt)
-
     for el in to_be_updated:
-        info += str("\t" + make_clickable(el.name, el.id)
-                    if el.name is not None
-                    else "\t" + make_clickable(str(el.id), el.id))
+        info += str("\t" + create_entity_link(el))
         info += "\n"
     logger.info(info)