Hi Mike, Thanks - I really appreciate it!
And thanks again for all of the effort you've put into SQLAlchemy! It is a "must have" in most of the Python projects I work on these days, and I regularly sing its praises to my clients. All the best, Chris On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 6:26:55 PM UTC-4, Mike Bayer wrote: > > 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.mo...@insightindustry.com > <javascript:>> 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sqlal...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > 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.
