Does anyone have any ideas on this? Does declarative simply not support the deferred property?
-Allen On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Allen Bierbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have been using the declarative successfully in our codebase for a > couple months now with 0.4.x, but we have just run into a problem. > > We have a table we we want to map using declarative but we want to > have one of the columns be deferred because it contains binary data. > Unfortunately we can't figure out how to do this. > > We tried something like this: > > class Person(Base): > __tablename__ = 'people' > id = Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True) > data = Column('data', Binary) > __mapper_args__ = {'properties' : {'data' : sa.orm.deferred(data)} > > The problem is that when the declarative metaclass assembles the > arguments to pass to the mapper creation method, this causes two > arguments of name 'properties' to be passed into the call. (see > DeclarativeMeta.__init__) > > - Is this a bug in the implementation of declarative? (perhaps the > code in DeclarativeMeta.__init__ should look for > __mapper_args__['properties'] and merge it with the internally created > properties) > - Or is there some other way to use deferred columns with declarative? > > Thanks, > Allen > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---