First, just recently switched my developement form 1.3 to 1.4 based on
comments of time line, since I suspect I won't be done till next year,
will likely be releasing with 2.0. (I set the migration warnings
described in the porting guide).
Not sure I can use the class decorator, as I am using a
you no longer have to use DeclarativeMeta at all, you can use a class decorator:
https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/mapping_styles.html#declarative-mapping-using-a-decorator-no-declarative-base
if you are on 1.3, there's a way to get the same effect in 1.3 using the
instrument_declarative
I have a lot of tables that have some similar functionality that I would
like to factor out into a base mix-in class that provides some common
methods. Some of these methods will want to use a method that must be
defined in the actual table ORM class, and would be an abstract method
in the base.
