Well, columnname isn't a simple column in the case of a case statement... the label is turning out like this:
"casewhenhas_testtrueandscoreisnullandgender1then1whenscoreisnullthen2elsescoreend" I haven't found a way to manually assign a label to a text clause yet, but before I tried use_labels=True, I has appended "as score" to the case clause and that worked. On Feb 27, 2:44 pm, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the label is always "tablename_columnname". youd have to show me > where you need that to be "programmatic". > > On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Dennis wrote: > > > > > Thanks for taking a peek. > > > Interesting, it does indeed fix the issue to use labels. Now I have > > another issue though, I have a case statement in my select which I was > > specifying like this: > > > select ( ['case when .... yada yada yada end as something' ] ...... > > > If use_labels = True, then the query breaks because the generated sql > > has two as label parts two it. > > > if I delete the "as something" part, I think don't know > > programatically what the label is though. I need to know that because > > I order by it. > > > Isn't there a way to find out a column label from a query? > > > -Dennis > > > On Feb 27, 12:47 pm, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> if you run it with full blown logging on, i.e.: > > >> import logging > >> logging.basicConfig() > >> logging.getLogger('sqlalchemy.engine').setLevel(logging.DEBUG) > >> logging.getLogger('sqlalchemy.orm').setLevel(logging.DEBUG) > > >> the issue can be detected when you look at the mapper creating > >> instance keys for "T" (although this is clearly not a novice issue): > > >> DEBUG:sqlalchemy.orm.mapper.Mapper:(T|ts) _instance(): identity key > >> (<class '__main__.T'>, (1,), None) not in session[] > >> DEBUG:sqlalchemy.orm.mapper.Mapper:(T|ts) _instance(): identity key > >> (<class '__main__.T'>, (None,), None) not in session[] > >> DEBUG:sqlalchemy.orm.mapper.Mapper:(T|ts) _instance(): identity key > >> (<class '__main__.T'>, (3,), None) not in session[] > >> DEBUG:sqlalchemy.orm.mapper.Mapper:(T|ts) _instance(): identity key > >> (<class '__main__.T'>, (None,), None) not in session[] > >> DEBUG:sqlalchemy.orm.mapper.Mapper:(T|ts) _instance(): identity key > >> (<class '__main__.T'>, (5,), None) not in session[] > > >> so its not getting an identity key for every other row, which > >> indicates its looking at the wrong column in the result set. (on > >> each of those "None"s, its going to skip that entity) looking at the > >> query: > > >> SELECT ts.id, ts.dat, other.ts_id, other.other_dat > >> FROM ts LEFT OUTER JOIN other ON ts.id = other.ts_id > > >> we can see that "other" has a column called "ts_id", which looks > >> exactly like the label that would be made for "id" in table "ts". so > >> thats whats happening here. so throwing on a "use_labels=True" to > >> the query (or changing the name of "ts_id") produces the query: > > >> SELECT ts.id AS ts_id, ts.dat AS ts_dat, other.ts_id AS other_ts_id, > >> other.other_dat AS other_other_dat > >> FROM ts LEFT OUTER JOIN other ON ts.id = other.ts_id > > >> that gives the correct results. > > >> not sure what SA can really do here to make this kind of issue easier > >> to catch, since the resultproxy itself is where its looking for "col > >> label, col name, ", etc. the generated labels are generally more > >> accurate. i tried playing around with ResultProxy to make it detect > >> an ambiguity of this nature, but i think it might not be possible > >> unless more flags/switches get passed from the statement to the > >> result (which id rather not do since it further marginalizes straight > >> textual queries), since if the select statement uses table/col labels > >> for each column, there still could be conflicts which dont matter, > >> such as the column names the normal eager loader generates: > > >> 'ts_id', 'ts_dat', 'other_4966_ts_id', 'other_4966_other_dat', > > >> that result is from column "ts_id" attached to an Alias > >> "other_4966". if we said "dont allow any Column to be found twice in > >> the row", then that breaks (since it will match other_4966_ts_id on > >> its _label, ts_id on its name). > > >> On Feb 27, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Dennis Muhlestein wrote: > > >>> from sqlalchemy import * > > >>> e=create_engine('sqlite://memory') > >>> ts=Table('ts',e, > >>> Column ( 'id',Integer,primary_key=True), > >>> Column ( 'dat',Integer,nullable=False)) > >>> ts.create() > > >>> to_oneornone=Table('other',e, > >>> Column ( 'ts_id', Integer,ForeignKey('ts.id'), primary_key=True, > >>> nullable=False ), > >>> Column ( 'other_dat', Integer, nullable=False ) ) > >>> to_oneornone.create() > > >>> class T(object): pass > >>> T.mapper=mapper(T,ts) > > >>> class To(object):pass > >>> To.mapper=mapper(To,to_oneornone,properties={'ts':relation > >>> (T,backref=backref('other',uselist=False))}) > > >>> s=create_session() > >>> for x in range(10): > >>> t=T() > >>> t.dat=x > >>> s.save(t) > > >>> if x % 2 == 0: # test every other T has an optional data > >>> o=To() > >>> o.other_dat=x > >>> t.other=o > > >>> s.save(t) > >>> s.flush() > > >>> s.clear() > > >>> somedata=s.query(T).options(eagerload('other')).select() > >>> print 'Number results should be 10: ', len(somedata) > > >>> s.clear() > > >>> sel=select([ts,to_oneornone], > >>> from_obj=[ts.outerjoin(to_oneornone)]) > > >>> print "Raw select also is 10: " , len(sel.execute().fetchall() ) > > >>> print "Instances should also be 10: ", len(s.query(T).options > >>> (contains_eager('other')).instances(sel.execute())) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. 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