On Aug 17, 2009, at 2:48 AM, vindhyavasini wrote:

>
> hi all,
> i am working on an open source project  (http://project.askspree.de/)
> i need to write this simple sql :
>
> SELECT tg_user.websites_specified AS tg_user_websites_specified,
> tg_user.display_name AS tg_user_display_name, tg_user.created AS
> tg_user_created, tg_user.user_name AS tg_user_user_name,
> tg_user.expertise_calculated_subtree AS
> tg_user_expertise_calculated_subtree, tg_user.keywords_specified AS
> tg_user_keywords_specified, tg_user.expertise_subtree AS
> tg_user_expertise_subtree, tg_user.expertise AS tg_user_expertise,
> tg_user.user_id AS tg_user_user_id, tg_user.password AS
> tg_user_password, tg_user.email_address AS tg_user_email_address
>
> FROM tg_user LEFT JOIN visit_identity ON
> tg_user.user_id=visit_identity.user_id
> LEFT JOIN visit ON visit_identity.visit_key=visit.visit_key
> WHERE visit_identity.user_id IS NULL OR visit.visit_key IS NULL OR
> visit.expiry < now()
> ORDER BY tg_user.user_id  LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0
>
>
>
> For this i have mapper classes
> User            (tg_user)
> VisitIdentity  (visit_identity)
> Visit            (visit)
>
> problem is that while defining mapper i couldnt set proper relation to
> these tables so i have to write condition to outer join these tables
> in the query only.
> i have tried these options :
> 1. session.query(User).select_from(
>                            text(' LEFT JOIN visit_identity ON
> tg_user.user_id==visit_identity.user_id LEFT JOIN visit ON
> visit_identity.visit_key==visit.visit_key')
>                        ).select(
>                        or_(    (VisitIdentity.c.user_id==None) ,
>                                (Visit.c.visit_key==None),
>                                (Visit.c.expiry < time)
>                            ),
>                        limit = limit,
>                        offset = offset
>                        )
>
> it outputs:
> SELECT tg_user.*
> FROM tg_user, LEFT JOIN visit_identity ON
> tg_user.user_id=visit_identity.user_id
> LEFT JOIN visit ON visit_identity.visit_key=visit.visit_key,
> visit_identity, visit
> WHERE visit_identity.user_id IS NULL OR visit.visit_key IS NULL OR
> visit.expiry < now()
> ORDER BY tg_user.user_id  LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0
>
> means brute force using text wont work here :(
>
> 2. select(   [User],
>                        from_obj=(
>                           outerjoin(
>
> User,VisitIdentity,User.c.user_id==VisitIdentity.c.user_id).outerjoin(
>
> Visit,VisitIdentity.c.visit_key==Visit.c.visit_key
>                            )
>                        ),
>                    ).filter(
>                        or_(    (VisitIdentity.c.user_id==None) ,
>                                (Visit.c.visit_key==None),
>                                (Visit.c.expiry < time)
>                            )
>                        )
>
> it gives error that: AttributeError: type object 'User' has no
> attribute '_selectable'
>
> 3. session.query(User).outerjoin(
>
> VisitIdentity,User.c.user_id==VisitIdentity.c.user_id).outerjoin(
>
> Visit,VisitIdentity.c.visit_key==Visit.c.visit_key
>                        ).select(
>                        or_(    (VisitIdentity.c.user_id==None) ,
>                                (Visit.c.visit_key==None),
>                                (Visit.c.expiry < time)
>                            ),
>                        limit = limit,
>                        offset = offset
>                        )
>
> it gives error that:
> TypeError: outerjoin() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)
>
> documentation says u can pass condition in this outerjoin() (http://
> www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/03/sqlalchemy_sql.html#docstrings_sqlalchemy.sql_modfunc_outerjoin)

These are docs for the SQL Expression language outerjoin, whereas  
you're using outerjoin on the ORM query, which is different, and only  
takes one arg. I think it takes more args in later versions of  
SQLAlchemy -- 0.3.7 is ancient

--
Philip Jenvey


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