Hey, I'm trying to create dynamic defaults for columns ala "http:// www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/metadata.html#context-sensitive-default-functions". MySQL has COMPRESS and UNCOMPRESS functions that I'm trying to leverage. I don't want to compress with python's zlib because I have legacy tables that were compressed using MySQL (which has a weird non- standard zip header and body), and I need to interface with them. Anyway, during an insert or update, I want to grab the 'text' variable from the instance object and insert it into the database like: COMPRESS("the text value"). Obviously context.current_parameters is not the appropriate object, but I can't figure out if it's possible to access the instance being inserted/updated.
def compress_text(context): return "COMPRESS('%s')" % context.current_parameters['text'] class Tree(BaseStruct, Base): __tablename__ = 'tree' __table_args__ = ( {'autoload':True} ) compressed = deferred(Column(Binary(),default=compress_text,default=compress_text,onupdate=compress_text)) text = column_property(select(["UNCOMPRESS(compressed)"]),deferred=True) Is this possible with 0.5.7? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalch...@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.