Re: [sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Chambliss

King Simon-NFHD78 wrote:

You'll have to give it a table name, which will have the effect of
defining a Table object even though no such table exists in the
database, but I don't think this matters. Then you could use the query
that Mike suggested to actually retrieve rows
Thanks, Simon - I ended up doing something much like this.  I went down 
a slightly different path before I realized I was basically doing what 
you suggested.  I ended up with the following.  I'm not sure what sort 
of side effects I'd see from this (other than, perhaps, ridicule :), but 
it does work the way I want and seems safe enough if used strictly in 
this way.  Note, 'real_vehicle' is not an actual table in the database.


I think I'll retool this using the declarative_base to see how that 
works out.


real_vehicle = Table('real_vehicle', metadata,
Column('vehicle_id', Integer, primary_key=True),
Column('vehicle_name', String),
Column('vehicle_description', String),
Column('vehicle_type', String),
)

class Vehicle(object):
pass

mapper(Vehicle, real_vehicle)

vehicle_query = """
select
v.vehicle_id as 'vehicle_id',
v.name as 'vehicle_name',
v.description as 'vehicle_description',
vt.name as 'vehicle_type'
from
vehicle v,
vehicle_type vt
where
vt.vehicle_type_id = v.vehicle_type_id
and v.vehicle_id = :vehicle_id
"""

q = s.query(Vehicle).from_statement(vehicle_query).params(vehicle_id=1)

for vehicle in q:
print vehicle.vehicle_id, vehicle.vehicle_name, 
vehicle.vehicle_description, vehicle.vehicle_type


Thanks again, Simon and Michael, for the help!

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Re: [sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Bayer
Michael Chambliss wrote:
>
> vehicle_query = """
>  select
>  v.vehicle_id as vehicle_id,
>  v.name as vehicle_name,
>  v.description as vehicle_description,
>  vt.name as vehicle_type,
>  vs.name as vehicle_status,
>  v.modify_dttm as vehicle_modify_dttm
>  from
>  vehicle v,
>  vehicle_type vt,
>  vehicle_status vs
>  where
>  v.vehicle_id = :vehicle_id
>  and vs.vehicle_status_id = v.vehicle_status_id
>  and vt.vehicle_type_id = v.vehicle_type_id
> """
>
> class Vehicle(object):
>  def __init__(self, vehicle_id, vehicle_name, vehicle_description,
>   vehicle_type, vehicle_status, vehicle_modify_dttm):
>  self.vehicle_id = vehicle_id
>  self.vehicle_name = vehicle_name
>  self.vehicle_description = vehicle_description
>  self.vehicle_type = vehicle_type
>  self.vehicle_status = vehicle_status,
>  self.vehicle_modify_dttm = vehicle_modify_dttm
>
>  def __repr__(self):
>  return "" % (self.vehicle_name)
>
> # Here's where I get sideways...
> # Obviously this won't work, but I'm not sure how to map the query to
> the class
> mapper(Vehicle, ??query??)

the mapper really requires Table metadata in order to be mapped.

vehicle = Table("vehicle", metadata, autoload=True)
vehicle_type = Table("vehicle_type", metadata, autoload=True)
vehicle_status = Table("vehicle_status", metadata, autoload=True)

j = vehicle.join(vehicle_type,
vehicle.c.foo==vehicle_type.c.bar).join(vehicle_status,
vehicle.c.bat==vehicle_status.c.bat)

mapper(Vehicle, j)

I think you'd find that from_statement() is a lot more work for the
example query you have above.  With such a mapping, you'd get the base set
of rows with query(Vehicle).all() and simple filtering with
query.(Vehicle).filter_by(vehicle_status_description='foo') , for example.
  But from_statement can be invoked at any point.





>  from
>  vehicle v,
>  vehicle_type vt,
>  vehicle_status vs


>
> metadata.bind = engine
>
> q = s.query(Vehicle).from_statement(vehicle_query).params(vehicle_id=123)
>
> for vehicle in q:
>  print vehicle.vehicle_id, vehicle.vehicle_name
>
> #...
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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RE: [sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL

2010-01-27 Thread King Simon-NFHD78
> -Original Message-
> From: sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com 
> [mailto:sqlalch...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Bayer
> Sent: 27 January 2010 16:31
> To: sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL
> 
> Michael Chambliss wrote:
> > Hey Michael - thanks for the patient and helpful response.  I played
> > around with the from_statement() approach earlier today, 
> but what I was
> > able to derive seemed to follow the standard model of define table,
> > define class, map table to class, execute query.  That 
> approach would be
> > great assuming I can map to some composite result (IE,
> > multi-table/function).  Perhaps I need to dive further into this to
> > determine how joins are handled and how the mapping should 
> be defined
> > for them.  The original example I linked seemed to imply 
> some mapping
> > magic in that the "Customer" class wasn't defined but was 
> mapped to the
> > complex "Selectable".  However, my research and attempts to do this
> > mapping with from_statement() proved fruitless.
> >
> > In a theoretical example, say I have a CAR table that 
> refers to both a
> > CAR_TYPE table and CAR_ATTRIBUTES table.  CAR_TYPE is simply an
> > enumeration for a static list of types, and CAR_ATTRIBUTES is an
> > arbitrarily long list of key,value attributes (color, 
> weight, top speed,
> > etc).  So, ultimately, a "Car" is made up of these three.
> >
> > I'd want to bake all of these together, passing in a CAR.ID (primary
> > key) to map to a Car instance.  I prefer to live in SQL because I'm
> > pretty good at it, and I need to reference, specifically, 
> Oracle Spatial
> > and Workspace functions.  I do not, however, need to chain 
> additional
> > filters off of this, handle updates/inserts (at least at 
> this point),
> > etc.  I'm literally just looking for a "cheap" way to map a 
> row to an
> > object and scoop up connection pooling, type handling, and 
> other great
> > things I'll probably learn about as I go.
> 
> 
> Assuming you've configured Car, CarType and CarAttributes 
> with mappers,

My reading of the original email is that configuring the mapping is the
problem that the OP is having.

To the OP: As far as I'm aware, you can't configure a mapper directly
against a textual SQL statement. However, you might be able to get away
with using the declarative syntax to define your Car class:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/reference/ext/declarative.html#synopsis

You'll have to give it a table name, which will have the effect of
defining a Table object even though no such table exists in the
database, but I don't think this matters. Then you could use the query
that Mike suggested to actually retrieve rows.

Hope that helps,

Simon

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Re: [sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Bayer
Michael Chambliss wrote:
> Hey Michael - thanks for the patient and helpful response.  I played
> around with the from_statement() approach earlier today, but what I was
> able to derive seemed to follow the standard model of define table,
> define class, map table to class, execute query.  That approach would be
> great assuming I can map to some composite result (IE,
> multi-table/function).  Perhaps I need to dive further into this to
> determine how joins are handled and how the mapping should be defined
> for them.  The original example I linked seemed to imply some mapping
> magic in that the "Customer" class wasn't defined but was mapped to the
> complex "Selectable".  However, my research and attempts to do this
> mapping with from_statement() proved fruitless.
>
> In a theoretical example, say I have a CAR table that refers to both a
> CAR_TYPE table and CAR_ATTRIBUTES table.  CAR_TYPE is simply an
> enumeration for a static list of types, and CAR_ATTRIBUTES is an
> arbitrarily long list of key,value attributes (color, weight, top speed,
> etc).  So, ultimately, a "Car" is made up of these three.
>
> I'd want to bake all of these together, passing in a CAR.ID (primary
> key) to map to a Car instance.  I prefer to live in SQL because I'm
> pretty good at it, and I need to reference, specifically, Oracle Spatial
> and Workspace functions.  I do not, however, need to chain additional
> filters off of this, handle updates/inserts (at least at this point),
> etc.  I'm literally just looking for a "cheap" way to map a row to an
> object and scoop up connection pooling, type handling, and other great
> things I'll probably learn about as I go.


Assuming you've configured Car, CarType and CarAttributes with mappers,
and associated them all together using relation(), and the general usage
is hypothetically along these lines:

sess.query(Car).from_statement("select car.*, car_attributes.*, car_type.*
from ")

you can route the individual columns into attributes and collections on
each Car object using contains_eager().   the naming convention here is a
little tedious, but you want to go with raw SQL so here you go, assuming
each table had "id" and "name" columns, substitute the actual names..


sess.query(Car).from_statement("""
select car.id as car_id, car.name as car_name,
car_attributes.id as car_att_id, car_attributes.name as car_att_name,
car_type.id as car_type_id, car_type.name as car_type_name
from 
""").options(
contains_eager(Car.type, alias='car_type'),
contains_eager(Car.attributes, alias='car_att')
).all()


havent tried it though.

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Re: [sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Chambliss

Michael Chambliss wrote:

Michael Bayer wrote:

On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Michael Chambliss wrote:
   

Presently, I'm trying to determine the best way to map a class against an 
arbitrary select where the select is constructed from raw SQL.  Based on this, 
it's possible using the expression builders:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/mappers.html#mapping-a-class-against-arbitrary-selects
 


from_statement() is the primary means of doing this, assuming you're mapped to 
some kind of construct already and just need to select the rows from some 
particular statement you happen to have as a string.   This means, the 
configuration of your application would consist of mapping your classes to 
table metadata as per the documentation, and then at query time you can load 
and persist objects, using all hand-written SQL to load rows.
   
In a theoretical example, say I have a CAR table that refers to both a 
CAR_TYPE table and CAR_ATTRIBUTES table.  CAR_TYPE is simply an 
enumeration for a static list of types, and CAR_ATTRIBUTES is an 
arbitrarily long list of key,value attributes (color, weight, top 
speed, etc).  So, ultimately, a "Car" is made up of these three.


I'd want to bake all of these together, passing in a CAR.ID (primary 
key) to map to a Car instance.

Michael - this may better illustrate the question.  Note the ??query??.

engine = create_engine('oracle://user:passw...@server:1521/database')
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
s = Session()

metadata = MetaData()

vehicle_query = """
select
v.vehicle_id as vehicle_id,
v.name as vehicle_name,
v.description as vehicle_description,
vt.name as vehicle_type,
vs.name as vehicle_status,
v.modify_dttm as vehicle_modify_dttm
from
vehicle v,
vehicle_type vt,
vehicle_status vs
where
v.vehicle_id = :vehicle_id
and vs.vehicle_status_id = v.vehicle_status_id
and vt.vehicle_type_id = v.vehicle_type_id
"""

class Vehicle(object):
def __init__(self, vehicle_id, vehicle_name, vehicle_description,
 vehicle_type, vehicle_status, vehicle_modify_dttm):
self.vehicle_id = vehicle_id
self.vehicle_name = vehicle_name
self.vehicle_description = vehicle_description
self.vehicle_type = vehicle_type
self.vehicle_status = vehicle_status,
self.vehicle_modify_dttm = vehicle_modify_dttm

def __repr__(self):
return "" % (self.vehicle_name)

# Here's where I get sideways...
# Obviously this won't work, but I'm not sure how to map the query to 
the class

mapper(Vehicle, ??query??)

metadata.bind = engine

q = s.query(Vehicle).from_statement(vehicle_query).params(vehicle_id=123)

for vehicle in q:
print vehicle.vehicle_id, vehicle.vehicle_name

#...

Thanks,
Mike

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Re: [sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL

2010-01-26 Thread Michael Chambliss

Michael Bayer wrote:

On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Michael Chambliss wrote:
   

Presently, I'm trying to determine the best way to map a class against an 
arbitrary select where the select is constructed from raw SQL.  Based on this, 
it's possible using the expression builders:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/mappers.html#mapping-a-class-against-arbitrary-selects
 


from_statement() is the primary means of doing this, assuming you're mapped to 
some kind of construct already and just need to select the rows from some 
particular statement you happen to have as a string.   This means, the 
configuration of your application would consist of mapping your classes to 
table metadata as per the documentation, and then at query time you can load 
and persist objects, using all hand-written SQL to load rows.
   
Hey Michael - thanks for the patient and helpful response.  I played 
around with the from_statement() approach earlier today, but what I was 
able to derive seemed to follow the standard model of define table, 
define class, map table to class, execute query.  That approach would be 
great assuming I can map to some composite result (IE, 
multi-table/function).  Perhaps I need to dive further into this to 
determine how joins are handled and how the mapping should be defined 
for them.  The original example I linked seemed to imply some mapping 
magic in that the "Customer" class wasn't defined but was mapped to the 
complex "Selectable".  However, my research and attempts to do this 
mapping with from_statement() proved fruitless.


In a theoretical example, say I have a CAR table that refers to both a 
CAR_TYPE table and CAR_ATTRIBUTES table.  CAR_TYPE is simply an 
enumeration for a static list of types, and CAR_ATTRIBUTES is an 
arbitrarily long list of key,value attributes (color, weight, top speed, 
etc).  So, ultimately, a "Car" is made up of these three.


I'd want to bake all of these together, passing in a CAR.ID (primary 
key) to map to a Car instance.  I prefer to live in SQL because I'm 
pretty good at it, and I need to reference, specifically, Oracle Spatial 
and Workspace functions.  I do not, however, need to chain additional 
filters off of this, handle updates/inserts (at least at this point), 
etc.  I'm literally just looking for a "cheap" way to map a row to an 
object and scoop up connection pooling, type handling, and other great 
things I'll probably learn about as I go.


Thanks again for your help!

Mike

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Re: [sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL

2010-01-26 Thread Michael Bayer

On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Michael Chambliss wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to SQLAlchemy (and really Python in general) and admittedly I'm 
> probably not following the best process for learning it.  Ultimately, I'd 
> prefer to deal with raw SQL as opposed to working through the expression 
> building methods despite the benefits of the framework I leave on the table.  
> The down side, of course, is that the tutorials aren't written for this 
> wanton approach.
> 
> Presently, I'm trying to determine the best way to map a class against an 
> arbitrary select where the select is constructed from raw SQL.  Based on 
> this, it's possible using the expression builders:
> 
> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/mappers.html#mapping-a-class-against-arbitrary-selects
> 
> so I assume it's possible using SQL.  I've researched the text() and Query 
> from_statement() methods, but these don't appear to be applicable in this 
> case.  Is there another method to short-cut the mapping of a rowset 
> (generated by raw SQL) to an object?

from_statement() is the primary means of doing this, assuming you're mapped to 
some kind of construct already and just need to select the rows from some 
particular statement you happen to have as a string.   This means, the 
configuration of your application would consist of mapping your classes to 
table metadata as per the documentation, and then at query time you can load 
and persist objects, using all hand-written SQL to load rows.

But the literal request to "map to an arbitrary select with raw SQL" is 
strange, but this may be semantic - the word "map" in SQLA parlance means to 
construct a mapper(), which is a configuration-time, not a query-time, concern. 
Your mapper would be against the fixed SQL statement, and would be invoked 
when, for example, you said query.all().   However, that would be all you can 
do with it - SQLA doesn't parse SQL strings, so its impossible for it to, by 
itself, alter your string SQL statement to add filtering criterion, ordering, 
or do anything else with it.   Your mapper also wouldn't be able to persist 
anything - since the requirement that you "map to raw SQL" means you don't want 
to tell it which individual tables are referenced in your select.

But its all absolutely possible I think we just need more specifics as to what 
patterns you're looking to achieve.

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[sqlalchemy] Map to Arbitrary Select Using Raw SQL

2010-01-26 Thread Michael Chambliss

Hello,

I'm new to SQLAlchemy (and really Python in general) and admittedly I'm 
probably not following the best process for learning it.  Ultimately, 
I'd prefer to deal with raw SQL as opposed to working through the 
expression building methods despite the benefits of the framework I 
leave on the table.  The down side, of course, is that the tutorials 
aren't written for this wanton approach.


Presently, I'm trying to determine the best way to map a class against 
an arbitrary select where the select is constructed from raw SQL.  Based 
on this, it's possible using the expression builders:


http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/mappers.html#mapping-a-class-against-arbitrary-selects

so I assume it's possible using SQL.  I've researched the text() and 
Query from_statement() methods, but these don't appear to be applicable 
in this case.  Is there another method to short-cut the mapping of a 
rowset (generated by raw SQL) to an object?


Thanks!
Mike

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