On 07/11/2011 02:37 PM, Tony wrote:
> I'm doing this:
> sengine = create_enging(blah..blah)
> smeta = MetaData(bind=sengine)
> meta.reflect(sengine)
> tables = smeta.tables.keys()
> to get a list of tables in a database, but unfortunately the table
> list are not in their dependency order. For example:
> A is depending on B (has a foreign key reference to B), B is
> depending on C, the correct table list should be [A,B,C]. Yet the
> smeta.tables.keys() will only return a unsorted list. Is there an API
> or a code snippet to show me how to sort the returned list on their
> dependency order ?
>
> I have this dumb code snippet,which I think is really inefficient.
>
> sorted_table = []
>
>
> #===========================================================================
> # sort all table list on their dependency order
>
> #===========================================================================
> while len(sorted_table) != len(tables):
> for table_name in tables:
> if table_name in sorted_table:
> continue
> table = Table(table_name, smeta, autoload=True)
> if len(table.foreign_keys) == 0:
> sorted_table.append(table_name)
> else:
> for foreign_key in table.foreign_keys:
> if foreign_key.target_fullname.split(".")[0] in
> sorted_table:
> pass
> else:break
> else:
> sorted_table.append(table_name)
>
> Thanks && Regards
> Tony
SQLAlchemy provides this via smeta.sorted_tables.
-Conor
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