wow great, sorry you had to work so long on that !

On Oct 25, 2008, at 7:10 AM, Hinrich Winther wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Thank you so much!
> It works like a charm. Damn, it is so wicked cool :)
>
>
> On 23.10.2008, at 21:02, Michael Bayer wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Hinrich Winther wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have tried to implement all day now. The problem is, that the  
>>> values of the parent chartItem are populated by sqlalchemy after a  
>>> flush. But I would have to extract the value by the parent before  
>>> a flush, otherwise the db complains becuause sqllite would also  
>>> try to flush the child at the same time. I only see 2 ways out of  
>>> this chicken / egg dilemma:
>>
>> you implement a routine *inside* the flush() using a  
>> MapperExtension configured on the chartItem mapper, using the  
>> before_insert() routine.   This would receive chartItem objects,  
>> and if patID is not populated, you would traverse up the parents of  
>> that chartItem until you located a non-None patID; then populate.    
>> The unit of work will ensure that the patient object is INSERTed  
>> before the child chartItem objects.
>>
>
> >


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