Still having a little trouble...here are the relevant mappings: orm.mapper(Keyphrase, keyphrase_table, properties = { 'message':orm.relation(Message, backref='keyphrase'), 'campaign':orm.relation(Campaign, backref='keyphrase'), 'actions':orm.relation(KeyphraseAction), })
orm.mapper(Action, action_table) orm.mapper(KeyphraseAction, keyphrase_action_table, properties={ 'action':orm.relation(Action), 'successMessage':orm.relation(Message, primaryjoin = keyphrase_action_table.c.success_message_id == message_table.c.id), 'failureMessage':orm.relation(Message, primaryjoin = keyphrase_action_table.c.failure_message_id == message_table.c.id), 'emailContent':orm.relation(EmailContent, primaryjoin = keyphrase_action_table.c.email_content_id == email_content_table.c.id), }) When I attempt to delete a KeyphraseAction from a Keyphrase instance as follows: # kp is a Keyphrase instance for i, ka in enumerate(kp.actions): del kp.actions[i] # this doesn't work! It throws an error: AssertionError: Dependency rule tried to blank-out primary key column 'keyphrase_action.keyphrase_id' on instance But this does work: assoc = meta.Session.query(m.KeyphraseAction)\ .filter(and_(m.KeyphraseAction.keyphrase_id == kp.id, m.KeyphraseAction.action_id == kp.actions[i].action.id))\ .one() meta.Session.delete(assoc) What am I doing wrong? On Aug 5, 3:05 pm, Hollister <a.hollister.willi...@gmail.com> wrote: > That was exactly the conclusion I reached before I read your reply. I > modeled it that way and it seems to work perfectly. Guess I was just > overthinking it. > > Thanks for getting back to me, Mike. > > On Aug 3, 11:41 pm, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 3, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Hollister wrote: > > > > I have 2 tables which are related to each other through an M:N > > > relationship (Keyword & Action). Additionally, the relationship itself > > > has attributes, which I have as non-key attributes in a third table > > > (KeywordAction). I've modeled this dozens of different ways, but have > > > yet to get exactly what I want from the model. > > > > At the ORM level, I want Keyword to have a property that is a > > > collection of KeywordAction instances. Each KeywordAction instance > > > would have a single Action instance property, so I could do things > > > like this: > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > for ka in keyword.keyword_actions: > > > if ka.status == 'open': > > > ka.action.do_something() > > > > keyword.keyword_actions.append(KeywordAction(action, status = 'open')) > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I've tried using the association_proxy, but I get the feeling that's > > > not the right tool for this job. > > > the above example doesn't seem like it would need association proxy, a > > simple collection of relation()s, i.e. Keyword.keyword_actions, > > KeywordAction.action would do based on the navigation illustrated. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---