It means that an object in memory (or some of its attributes), representing an entity in the DB, is no longer considered to reflect the state of that entity accurately because the entity may have changed in the DB. So next time attributes are read from the object, fresh DB state is queried. See http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/session.html#refreshing-expiring"To clear out the currently loaded state on an instance, the instance or its individual attributes can be marked as "expired", which results in a reload to occur upon next access of any of the instance's attrbutes."
Gulli On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Bao Niu <niuba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I read the documentation several times yet still didn't find an official > definition for "expired object", although it is used quite often. To my > understanding, it means when you update some attributes on a persistent > object, so those affected attributes that are still lying in database > become "expired". Is my understanding correct, please? Thanks very much. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
