Accessing my catalog entities from scaffolder

[round ether]

I am creating a global function in my scaffolder so that the template can pass a value to this function and I will search up a related entity from the catalog and return it.
This is how I am creating my global function in scaffolder.ts

  const additionalTemplateGlobals: Record<string, TemplateGlobal> = {
    getEntityFromRef: ref => getEntityFromRef(ref as string, env.database),
  };

Looking at the source, it seems like I can get the client by doing something like const client = await env.database.getClient() and then I can do normal Knex stuff on this client object. Is this correct? Is this the best way or is there a better way to do it? Is there a helper function that I can call instead of needing to create a knex client?

[dusky thunder]

No, every plugin has its entirely own separate database, and besides, the databases are strictly considered private concerns that can change in any way at any time without prior notice.

To call the catalog, use a CatalogClient instance from the @backstage/catalog-client package.