Sorry, assume instead of class Order, I've got
class Product(object):
pass
On Feb 26, 1:48 pm, Kent <k...@retailarchitects.com> wrote:
> I'm certain sqlalchemy's got a function call in its guts that I was
> about to recreate from scratch, so I'm hoping you can spare me the
> trouble.
>
> I'm trying to construct the foreign key where clause and from clause
> needed to populate a relation.
>
> I'd explain how I got here, but might take several days, so instead,
> is there a function call to help me?
>
> In other words, I've got an object, for example an order:
>
> ===================================
>
> orderdetail_table = Table("orderdetails",metadata,
> Column("orderid", Unicode, ForeignKey('orders.orderid'),
> primary_key=True),
> Column("lineid", Integer, primary_key=True),
> Column("saleprice", Numeric, nullable=False),
> Column("productid", Unicode(255),
> ForeignKey('products.productid'), nullable=False)
> )
>
> product_table = Table("products", metadata,
> Column("productid", Unicode(255), primary_key=True),
> Column("brand", Unicode(255),
> ...
> )
>
> class Order(object):
> pass
>
> class OrderDetail(object):
> pass
>
> # ---------------------------- OrderDetail
> -------------------------------------------------------- #
> orderdetail_mapper = mapper(OrderDetail, orderdetail_table,
> allow_null_pks=False,
> properties=dict(product=relation(Product,
> cascade='refresh-expire,expunge', #don't save
> changes to Product
> lazy=False)))
>
> =====================
>
> Say the 'product' relation is not populated on a *transient*
> OrderDetail object that I will not be issuing a session flush() for
> (there are errors detected.. but that's the long story).
>
> I want to populate the transient OrderDetails 'product' attribute with
> the detached product.
>
> I assume there is no way a refresh of the 'product' attribute will
> accomplish this since the parent obj is transient (which would really
> be what I want), so I am also assuming I'll need to build the pk
> clause and issue a session.query.get().
>
> Since this is dynamic code (accepting any sqla object), I need to
> dynamically construct that pk clause and from clause based on the
> mapper's RelationProperty. In other words, use _foreign_keys to
> construct this ?
>
> But I imagine there is already a function call that will get me what I
> want.
>
> In the end, for this example, I'd want to dynamically build
> session.query(Product).filter( * pk clause based on fks *)
>
> Is there a function that can get me most everything I want (return the
> pk clause) or must I build that up myself, and if myself, do you
> recommend the RelationProperty's _foreign_keys attribute as the
> starting point?
>
> Thanks in advance, again.
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