[sqlalchemy] Re: building mappers for an existing database

2008-02-12 Thread Chris Withers

svilen wrote:
 probably something like it. Reverse engineering the db, and mime self 
 accordingly, IF possible.

I don't know what and mime self accordingly means...

 See the autoload=true flag to metadata and 
 tables, it does most of the job. 

Not sure what you're referring to here...

cheers,

Chris

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[sqlalchemy] Re: building mappers for an existing database

2008-02-11 Thread svilen

On Monday 11 February 2008 16:07:03 Chris Withers wrote:
 svilen wrote:
  search the group for things related to migrate (i call it migrene
  :); there are 2 approaches:
   - make the db match the py-model
   - make the model match the db

 It's this 2nd one I'm asking about. Is sqlautocode the standard way
 of doing this?
probably something like it. Reverse engineering the db, and mime self 
accordingly, IF possible. See the autoload=true flag to metadata and 
tables, it does most of the job. 
i have something quick-and-dirty here:
http://dbcook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dbcook/trunk/dbcook/misc/metadata/

svilen

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[sqlalchemy] Re: building mappers for an existing database

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Withers

svilen wrote:
 search the group for things related to migrate (i call it migrene :); 
 there are 2 approaches:
  - make the db match the py-model
  - make the model match the db 

It's this 2nd one I'm asking about. Is sqlautocode the standard way of 
doing this?

cheers,

Chris

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[sqlalchemy] Re: building mappers for an existing database

2008-02-08 Thread svilen

On Friday 08 February 2008 16:09:28 Chris Withers wrote:
 Hi All,

 Almost similar to my last question, how do you go about building
 mappers for an existing database schema?

 What happens if you don't get it quite right? :-S

 cheers,

 Chris

search the group for things related to migrate (i call it migrene :); 
there are 2 approaches:
 - make the db match the py-model
 - make the model match the db 

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