I have a table for user accounts[1] and another one[2] for logging
all account activity (signup, activation, login, logout, etc)
Not surprisingly, the account activity table has a foreign key of
account id relating it to the account table.
I have an Account class defined:
class Account(object):
def __init__(self, email_address, full_name, password):
self.email_address = email_address
self.full_name = full_name
self.password_sha = sha.sha(password).hexdigest()
which is mapped to the table with:
accounts_mapper = mapper(Account, accounts)
So I can create new accounts easily with:
new_account = Account("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "James Tauber",
"mypassword")
session.save(new_account)
session.flush()
However, I'm wondering the best way to log the account creation (i.e.
signup). I can do it after the fact with something like:
activity = AccountActivity()
activity.account_id = new_account.account_id
activity.time_stamp = time.time()
activity.activity_type = "SIGNUP"
session.save(activity)
session.flush()
but I'm just wondering if there's a good way I can do it as part of
the Account creation itself.
I have done this sort of thing previously in PostgreSQL with triggers
but I'd like a more DB-neutral approach (that will also work with
sqlite) using SQLAlchemy.
Any tips?
Would a better approach be to add a property:
accounts_mapper.add_property("activity", relation(AccountActivity))
and then just do a self.activity.append(AccountActivity(...))?
James
[1]
accounts = Table("accounts", meta,
Column("account_id", Integer, primary_key = True),
Column("email_address", String(255), unique = True, nullable =
False),
Column("full_name", String(255)),
Column("password_sha", String(40), nullable = False),
Column("status", String(6), default = "NEW", nullable = False),
# NEW, ACTIVE, LOCKED
)
[2]
account_activity = Table("account_activity", meta,
Column("account_activity_id", Integer, primary_key = True),
Column("account_id", Integer, ForeignKey("accounts.account_id"),
nullable = False),
Column("time_stamp", DateTime, nullable = False),
Column("activity_type", String(8), nullable = False), # SIGNUP,
ACTIVATE, RESET, LOGIN, LOGOUT
)
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