that's great and i wish more folks would see it that way :)


On Thu, May 27, 2021, at 11:56 AM, Brendan Blanchard wrote:
> Thanks Mike,
> 
> Glad to see it's in the works.
> 
> As for my case, I sometimes forget I'm working in sqlalchemy *and Python*, 
> and completely overlook simple Python solutions to seemingly-sqlalchemy 
> related issues. Since I have a class factory (which is the only place these 
> classes will come from), I can keep my own lookup table as part of the 
> factory, rather than worrying about where sqlalchemy keeps it. At least for 
> my limited case there's no reason the information *has* to come from the 
> internal sqlalchemy registry.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Brendan
> 
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:36 AM Mike Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
>> __
>> we haven't made a public APi for this however the discussion of what it 
>> would look like is at https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/issues/6080  
>> and the proposal is at 
>> https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/issues/6080#issuecomment-801253683. 
>> 
>> What you can do now is use sqlalchemy.orm.registry explicitly for your 
>> mappings, your class name lookup is in there right now in 
>> registry._class_registry 
>> 
>> On Thu, May 27, 2021, at 11:21 AM, Brendan Blanchard wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I'm using a class factory to dynamically generate SQLA types and am 
>>> rightfully getting the warning: 
>>> 
>>> *SAWarning: This declarative base already contains a class with the same 
>>> class name and module name as <module.class_name>, and will be replaced in 
>>> the string-lookup table.*
>>> **
>>> when I attempt to use it twice for the same parameters. But, what I was 
>>> hoping to do was use said string-lookup table (which I can't seem to find 
>>> in base.metadata or elsewhere) in my class factory such that I can call it 
>>> as many times as I want (instead of using it once and keeping a reference), 
>>> and it would return a reference to that already-created class instead of 
>>> generating the identical new one and the subsequent warning. 
>>> 
>>> Essentially I'd like something like:
>>> 
>>> def create_cls(cls_name, tablename):
>>>     if cls_name in Base.metadata.string_lookup_table:
>>>         return Base.metadata.string_lookup_table[cls_name]
>>>     <....>
>>>     return type(cls_name, (Base,), some_dynamic_attrs_n_stuff) 
>>> 
>>> The given answer here 
>>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11668355/sqlalchemy-get-model-from-table-name-this-may-imply-appending-some-function-to/23754464#23754464>
>>>  generates an error for Base not having an _decl_class_registry attribute 
>>> (I'm using 1.4.3 if that helps), though any solution that uses the 
>>> tablename or class/module name will work for my case.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brendan
>>> 

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