Kinda lame I could not find that I should have known

Thanks!

On Dec 9, 2011, at 16:01 , Michael Bayer wrote:

> 
> On Dec 9, 2011, at 5:28 AM, Martijn Moeling wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm puzzled on how to get this working:
>> 
>> 
>> class User(base):
>>      Id                      =       Column (Integer, primarykey=true)
>>      Name            =       Column(Unicode(100))
>> 
>> 
>> Session.query(User).filter(User.Name.like(query+"%")).all()
>> 
>> is all fine.
>> 
>> now I want to add an extension to the query, which does the same within Id 
>> and returns all results where the Id field is searched as a string too
>> 
>> like
>> 
>> Session.query(User).filter(or_(User.Name.like("%"+query+"%"), 
>> str(User.Id).like(query+"%")).all()
>> 
>>                                                                              
>>                                    ^^^^
>> example data:
>> 
>> 
>> 1, "martijn 1"
>> 2, "martijn 2"
>> ….
>> 100,"martijn 100"
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> searching for "1" will find all records with Id's -> 1,11,12…., 19, 100
>> and records with a "1" somewhere in the name.
>> 
>> there must be a way, right?
> 
> you'd use cast() for this, representing the SQL CAST expression:
> 
> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/core/expression_api.html?highlight=cast#sqlalchemy.sql.expression.cast
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Martijn
>> 
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