i'm not sure how much this would help u, but 0.4 has better support for 
your-own-collection-containers. see 
http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/04/mappers.html#advdatamapping_relation_collections

e.g. subclass some list and u can do the callback at append() or whatever.

Dave Harrison wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a situation where I want to declare a relation between two
> tables, but I want to be able to run a callback whenever I append to
> that relation.  Here's an example
> 
> class Kennel:
>     def callback(self, o):
>         print "callback", o
> 
> mapper = Mapper(
>     Kennel,
>     kennelTable,
>     properties = {
>         "dogs" : relation(
>             Dog, cascade="all, delete-orphan"
>         ),
>     }
> )
> 
> So whenever I use mykennel.dogs.append(fred) I want to be able to tell
> the relation to call callback() so that I can do some checking on the
> object that is being appended.
> 
> Is this possible ??
> 
> Cheers
> Dave


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