cascade should be "all, delete-orphan".    by saying "delete, delete-orphan" 
you cancel out other cascades that are there, most notably "save-update" which 
makes sure everything gets moved into the same Session.


On Aug 24, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Benjamin Sims wrote:

> I have a many-to-many relationship with attributes:
> 
> Parent - AssocObject - Child
> 
> I'm trying to set it up so that when an AssocObject is removed from parent, 
> that instance of AssocObject and the Child are also deleted. So in my view I 
> do:
> 
> del parent.associatedobjects
> 
> I have changed the model so that the definition of Parent includes
> 
> associatedobjects = relationship("AssocObject", cascade = "delete, 
> delete-orphan")
> 
> This seems to work, however when I then try to add a new AssocObject:
> 
> parent.associatedobjects[0] = AssocObject()
> 
> I get a warning:
> 
> Object of type <AssocObject> not in session, add operation along 
> 'Parent.associatedobjects' will not proceed
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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