On Nov 17, 2010, at 4:23 AM, J wrote:

> so i'm using sqlsoup to support a legacy db, and am thoroughly
> enjoying it.  it was awesome setting up relationships and all that
> even though the underlying db schema didn't have any foreign key
> defines!
> 
> however, i'm at a point where i'd like to add some helper funcitons/
> methods to some MappedFoo objects that sqlsoup likes to return.
> 
> i was thinking of using a mixin to add the extra functionality.  for
> example:
> 
> # assume foo is a MappedFoo instance returned from sqlsoup already
> class x:
>   def bar(): print 'bar'
> foo.__bases__ += (x,)
> foo.bar() # prints 'bar' as expected
> 
> however, it would be super if there was some way to have the sqlsoup
> getters already have this mixin or some overriding baseclass
> configured... or some automated way of applying a mixin behind the
> scenes.

SqlSoup allows a "base" argument which will serve as the base class for all 
generated classes:

        SqlSoup(engine, base=MyClass)

we should probably add the constructor and stuff to the docstrings.



> 
> thoughs?  thanks.
> 
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