On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 1:35 PM, sqlalchemy_mysql <anva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's correct. MySQL doesn't support. I see people workaround by
> serializing it to string/text and store and retrieve so was wondering
> SQLAlchemy has some support like that. Seems like NO.

You use a TypeDecorator for that kind of thing:

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/custom_types.html?highlight=typedecorator#typedecorator-recipes




>
>
> On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 10:25:33 AM UTC-7, Mike Bayer wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:38 PM, sqlalchemy_mysql <anv...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Sorry I don't see any references in doc. I tried using array type but
>> > got
>> > this error
>> >
>> > can't render element of type <class 'sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.ARRAY'>
>> >
>> > Compiler <sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.base.MySQLTypeCompiler object at
>> > 0x110949e90> can't render element of type <class
>> > 'sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.ARRAY'>
>> >
>> > Here is my column defintion
>> >
>> > sqla.Column(sqla_types.ARRAY(sqla_types.String), default=[],
>> > nullable=False)
>>
>> to my knowledge, MySQL has no ARRAY datatype available so this would
>> not work (a google search just now also doesn't turn up anything new).
>> If either MySQL or MariaDB implements ARRAY, SQLAlchemy's dialect
>> would require enhancements in order for this to be supported.
>>
>>
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