Thanks for the explanation.

I think a ".property" accessor on AssociationProxy is the right
solution.

Right now I am doing something of this sort:
User.groups._get_property().comparator  but not sure if that's what
should be done or not.

On Jul 29, 7:20 am, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
> An association proxy is a Python descriptor attached to a class and by itself 
> is not anything like the InstrumentedAttribute/relationship() object used for 
> a relationship.   So it cannot be passed to mapper options that expect 
> InstrumentedAttribute, or those options need to be enhanced to detect when an 
> association proxy is passed in, which would be to check for its class as an 
> AssociationProxy object, then call _get_property() on it to get the ultimate 
> relationship().
>
> It would be a good idea for us to stick a ".property" accessor on 
> AssociationProxy so this kind of thing would work automatically but I'd want 
> to have tests that it works under all kinds of join()/options() scenarios.  
> added #2236 for that.
>
> On Jul 29, 2011, at 12:32 AM, espresso maker wrote:
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> > Anyone know of another sqlalchemy + beaker example I can look it?
>
> > On Jul 27, 2:05 pm, espresso maker <espressso.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi there,
>
> >> I am trying to follow the setup in this 
> >> examplehttp://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/browser/examples/beaker_cachingto
> >> enable beaker caching in sqlalchemy. However, I ran into an issue.
>
> >> #1. When I try to cache a relation that happens to be an association
> >> proxy I get the following error:
>
> >> AttributeError: 'AssociationProxy' object has no attribute 'property'
>
> >> This is how my query looks like:
>
> >> def get_user(user_id):
> >>     return Session.query(User).\
> >>        options(FromCache('default', 'user')).\
> >>        options(RelationshipCache('default', 'user_groups',
> >> User.groups)).\
> >>        get(user_id)
>
> >> Anyone ran into this problem?
>
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