all Column objects have to be on the base class if you're using single table inheritance. declarative joins the Table and class definitions together, and the base class has to represent the Table completely.
On Dec 17, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Jeffrey wrote: > > below is ext.declarative.py's doc: > > class Person(Base): > __tablename__ = 'people' > id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) > discriminator = Column(String(50)) > __mapper_args__ = {'polymorphic_on': discriminator} > > class Engineer(Person): > __tablename__ = 'engineers' > __mapper_args__ = {'polymorphic_identity': 'engineer'} > id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('people.id'), > primary_key=True) > primary_language = Column(String(50)) > > For single-table inheritance, the ``__tablename__`` and ``__table__`` > class > variables are optional on a class when the class inherits from another > mapped > class. > > > according it i think it should be like this: > > class Engineer(Person): > __mapper_args__ = {'polymorphic_identity': 'engineer'} > primary_language = Column(String(50)) > > but : > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy-0.5.0rc1-py2.5.egg > \sqlalchemy\s > ql\expression.py", line 2636, in description > return self.name.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace') > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode' > > > what should i do? thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---