[sqlalchemy] Re: Materialized Path for SQLAlchemy & Declarative Base

2009-08-13 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 13, 2:37 pm, Anton Gritsay wrote: > Hi, Allen! > > You can use something like this (yeah, I know that it isn't > declarative in any way): > >     class Node(Base): >         __tablename__ = 'node' >         id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) >         parent_id = Column(ForeignKey('n

[sqlalchemy] Re: VIEW alternative in SQLAlchemy

2009-08-09 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 9, 1:42 pm, Michael Bayer wrote: > On Aug 9, 2009, at 1:24 PM, allen.fowler wrote: > > > So, just to clarify: > > > At this point in time, can SQLAlchemy be used to define and query > > simple VIEWs in a database agnostic manner? > > > And if not,

[sqlalchemy] Re: Materialized Path for SQLAlchemy & Declarative Base

2009-08-09 Thread allen.fowler
Werner, On Aug 7, 12:36 pm, werner wrote: > Allen, > > allen.fowler wrote: > > > On Aug 6, 6:54 pm, AF wrote: > > >> Hello all, > > >> Has anyone here used the "sqlamp: Materialized Path for SQLAlchemy" > >> library? > > >&g

[sqlalchemy] Re: VIEW alternative in SQLAlchemy

2009-08-09 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 7, 11:45 am, "Michael Bayer" wrote: > AF wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have a table of records in the database that I want to run read > > queries against, but I do want to include all of them in the search. > > (There are a couple of filtering parameters to exclude records from > > the se

[sqlalchemy] Re: VIEW alternative in SQLAlchemy

2009-08-07 Thread allen.fowler
> ...> To clarify: > > > I am using SQLAlchemy's Declarative Base to fully define and create my > > database. > > > For instance, there is a simple class/table Records, and I would like > > to define a class CurrentRecords that is implemented in the database > > as a view on Records. > > > In thi

[sqlalchemy] Re: VIEW alternative in SQLAlchemy

2009-08-07 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 7, 11:45 am, "Michael Bayer" wrote: > AF wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have a table of records in the database that I want to run read > > queries against, but I do want to include all of them in the search. > > (There are a couple of filtering parameters to exclude records from > > the se

[sqlalchemy] Re: Materialized Path for SQLAlchemy & Declarative Base

2009-08-07 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 6, 6:54 pm, AF wrote: > Hello all, > > Has anyone here used the "sqlamp: Materialized Path for SQLAlchemy" > library? > > I am wondering: > > 1) Does it seem to work well? > > 2) Did you use it with Declarative Base, and if so, how did you > configure it? > Anybody? Specifically, I am

[sqlalchemy] Re: Declarative Base: remote_side & single_parent

2009-08-06 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 6, 4:05 pm, "Michael Bayer" wrote: > allen.fowler wrote: > > >> I tried: > > >> children = relation("Node", backref=backref("parent", > >> remote_side="nodes.id")) > > > got it to work with: > > &

[sqlalchemy] Re: Declarative Base: remote_side & single_parent

2009-08-06 Thread allen.fowler
> I tried: > > children = relation("Node", backref=backref("parent", > remote_side="nodes.id")) > got it to work with: remote_side=[id] But: 1) Why is remote_side a list? 2) Where does single_parent fit in to this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messa

[sqlalchemy] Re: Suggestions for db connect string configuration?

2009-08-06 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 5, 6:29 pm, AF wrote: > Hello, > > Where do you folks recommend storing the database connection string in > my application.  Clearly not in the same file with my declaratively > defined model objects. > > And more generally, how do you recommend laying out an SQLAlchemy > based applicati

[sqlalchemy] Re: Relation w/ declarative

2009-08-06 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 6, 4:59 am, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > On 8/6/09 09:30 , werner wrote: > > > IIRC correctly the __init__ section is only needed if you want to do: > > add = Address('an email address') > > > I never do this, i.e. I assign like this > > add = Address() > > add.email_address = 'an email add

[sqlalchemy] Re: Relation w/ declarative

2009-08-06 Thread allen.fowler
On Aug 6, 3:30 am, werner wrote: > I never do this, i.e. I assign like this > add = Address() > add.email_address = 'an email address'> In what way is the Address object > expected to be instantiated such > > that it receives the correct user id? > > You just do this and SA will take care of

[sqlalchemy] Re: Hierarchical data: Get all (sub-) children? Parents?

2009-08-05 Thread allen.fowler
On Jul 28, 12:17 pm, David Gardner wrote: > Just thought I would toss in my 2-cents here, since I have lots of > hierarchical data and have > at one time or another used most of the below methods. > > Choice #1 is the option that I have found that works the best. > I Use a file path-like primar

[sqlalchemy] Re: SQLAlchemy as a FIFO buffer?

2009-06-30 Thread allen.fowler
> I've attached a proof of concept for how I've approached the "homegrown" > version of this in the past.   a jobs table has two update passes - one to > atomically mark jobs as "in progress" by a certain procid, then the > transaction is released so that other processes can theoretically work on

[sqlalchemy] Re: SQLAlchemy as a FIFO buffer?

2009-06-30 Thread allen.fowler
On Jun 30, 11:25 am, Didip Kerabat wrote: > If you are open to non RDBMS solution, sounds like what you need is message > queue system. > > At work, we use RabbitMQ (memory-only) and have been quite happy with it. > > SecondLife posted their discovery about MQ > here:http://wiki.secondlife.com

[sqlalchemy] Re: SQLAlchemy as a FIFO buffer?

2009-06-29 Thread allen.fowler
> > I have several CGI and cron scripts and that I would like coordinate > > via a "First In / First Out" style buffer.    That is, some processes > > are adding work units, and some take the oldest and start work on > > them. > > > Since I need the queue to both survive system crashes and provid

[sqlalchemy] Re: Validators: Define at table / mapper level ?

2009-06-23 Thread allen.fowler
> If you have mapper definitions separate from classes, theres nothing > stopping you from adding attributes to the class over there, i.e. > > mapper(MyClass, mytable) > > MyClass.foo = some_validation_decorator(MyClass.foo) > > Personally I wouldn't bother (then again I use declarative for every

[sqlalchemy] Re: Random value for field by default?

2009-06-21 Thread allen.fowler
> default = lambda: random.randrange(1000,1) > Seems we crossed in the interwebs.. :) Is it safe to do this, or do you need to do default = lambda: random.Random()randrange(1000,1) ? I ask since I have several tables that this needs to be applied to. Thank you --~--~-~--~

[sqlalchemy] Re: Random value for field by default?

2009-06-21 Thread allen.fowler
OK, never mind... I solved it. The default = random.randrange(1000,1) code was happily taking the static return value. Duh. I changed it to: default = lambda: random.Random().randrange(2000,8000) I dunno if the extra Random() is needed, but it can't hurt, right? On Jun 21, 4:32 pm, AF

[sqlalchemy] Re: "filtered" or "computed" version of an existing relation?

2009-06-21 Thread allen.fowler
Thank you, Michael. On Jun 18, 9:41 am, Michael Bayer wrote: > On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:27 AM, AF wrote: > > > > > OK, next question. > > > Well... two related questions.  :) > > > 1)  In general, inside an object's method def, where I am doing > > arbitrary calculations, how can I get access to t

[sqlalchemy] Re: relation error?

2009-06-17 Thread allen.fowler
> you can, you can use a validator that rejects all changes, or if > you're > brave you can create a custom __setattribute__ method that brokers all > attribute setter access.   the former is in the SQLA mapping docs the > latter is part of Python. Thank you. Interesting seems a bit of a ro

[sqlalchemy] Re: relation error?

2009-06-17 Thread allen.fowler
> 3) Can this relation's objects be made "read-only"?  That is: > "u.room = new_room" would work, but this would not:  "u.room.name = > 'kitchen'" > To clarify the question: Can this objects seen via this relation be made "read-only"? That is: u.room = a_room u.room = a_new_room ...would work

[sqlalchemy] Re: relation error?

2009-06-17 Thread allen.fowler
On Jun 17, 6:39 am, Mike Conley wrote: > users.room is the id of a room, not an actual room > >          u.room = r.id > > will fix the problem > > However, if you want to use a SA relation, you didn't declare it yet. > > You can do this to make a relation > >      users_table = Table('users',

[sqlalchemy] Re: Can I coerce strings into Unicode?

2009-06-12 Thread allen.fowler
On Jun 12, 6:00 am, Gunnlaugur Briem wrote: > The engine's conversion to unicode doesn't happen when you assign the > property, it happens when the underlying database operation is > committed, and arrives in the python object's property only after > roundtripping through the database. > OK, i

[sqlalchemy] Re: Can I coerce strings into Unicode?

2009-06-11 Thread allen.fowler
Anybody? On Jun 4, 1:13 am, AF wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using sqlite and "convert_unicode = True "on the engine. > > How can I force coerce string based object attributes in to unicode? > (I had thought "convert_unicode = True" would do this) > > Here is what I am seeing... > > Setup code: > engi