I was trying to send events to listeners when attributes changed on my model. It didn't really work out that well for me anyways as I wanted to listen to specific instances and not every instance of a mapped class.
On Oct 1, 2:15 pm, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Brett wrote: > > > > > I'm using AttributeExtension for my project and it would greatly > > simplify things if I could receive the events after the attributes are > > set. Is there any way this will make it into SqlAlchemy? > > having the events received before is a strong feature since it allows > you to validate and modify, or reject, the value before going in. > Having a whole new event issued afterwards would add overhead to all > attribute operations unless we do some of the tricks that we do with > MapperExtension to determine ahead of time if methods are actually > present and don't call empty methods otherwise. > > If your use case is limited to scalars and not collections, feel free > to populate. This is just saying "state[key] = value", based on the > incoming state and value. > > The whole AttributeExtension as a public API is a brand new feature, > so I'd be curious what your usage of it is. I wonder if there might > be alternatives for your particular use case. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
