Hi Chris - congratulations! this looks extremely well documented and it's clear you put an enormous amount of effort into it! I will definitely point users your way when they ask for this kind of thing. Looks great.
- mike On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:00 PM, <chris.modzelew...@insightindustry.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > First off, I'd just like to thank everyone here for all of the awesome work > you've been doing on SQLAlchemy. I've been using the library for years, and > it is a truly fantastic piece of code that I rely on literally every day. > Thank you for all the work that you've done and are doing - it is deeply > appreciated. > > Some time ago, I was thinking about how I might be able to give back to the > SQLAlchemy community, and I realized that I often find myself extending my > SQLAlchemy base models with serialization and de-serialization functionality > (usually to/from JSON and CSV, sometimes YAML or XML). And since it's the > type of thing I've done numerous times in various API and data > science-related projects, I thought it probably makes sense to abstract the > functionality out and package the logic for re-use. > > Separation of concerns being important, I don't think this is functionality > that would be good to build into SQLAlchemy's codebase directly, so instead > I wrote it as a new library I'm calling SQLAthanor which I've just released > to PyPi. > > It works as a drop-in replacement for parts of the SQLAlchemy ORM > (particularly Declarative) that extends models with > serialization/de-serialization support, granting the ability to: > > serialize/de-serialize to/from CSV, JSON, YAML, and Python dict > serialize/de-serialize columns, relationships, hybrid properties, > association proxies, and Python @property attributes > enable/disable serialization for particular attribute/format combinations > execute pre/post-processing functions on inbound/outbound data > > Since this is a new project, v.0.1.0 is only released on PyPi in beta at the > moment. I've got - I think - pretty extensive tests written, but as we all > know, database connectivity is all about edge cases. As it stands, my test > matrix covers Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 with versions of SQLAlchemy > going all the way back to 0.9. > > If you're interested, I'd be incredibly grateful for any thoughts, feedback, > suggestions, wish lists, or questions you might have. And (if you do try to > use SQLAthanor in a project) any and all issues you stumble across would > also be incredibly helpful. > > Here are the relevant links if you'd like to take a look: > > DOCUMENTATION: https://sqlathanor.readthedocs.io/en/latest (I hope > comprehensive!) > > PYPI: https://pypi.org/project/sqlathanor/ > > GITHUB: https://github.com/insightindustry/sqlathanor > > Thanks in advance, and I look forward to any thoughts or perspectives you > might have! > > All the best, > Chris > > -- > SQLAlchemy - > The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper > > http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ > > To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and > Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full > description. > --- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
