On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 08:29:54AM +0000, Timothy W. Grove wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, Oleg. I found a solution which may not be
> elegant, but it works for me! Instead of trying to work with two
> different class definitions I've just kept one which declares the column
> I wish to add to the database and run an update function which deletes
> the column from the class before adding it again to both the class and
> the database. My example follows.
Sometimes I do the same.
> Best regards,
> Tim
>
> class SignEntry(SQLObject):
> explanatory_map = PickleCol()
>
> def SignEntryUpdate():
> cols = [i.name for i in
> sqlhub.processConnection.columnsFromSchema("sign_entry", SignEntry)]
> if 'explanatoryMap' not in cols:
> SignEntry.sqlmeta.delColumn('explanatory_map') # I know
> this exists in the class definition
> SignEntry.sqlmeta.addColumn(PickleCol("explanatory_map"),
> changeSchema=True)
Minor optimization in case you are going to test many columns - a set
is perhaps faster for repeated 'in' testing:
cols = set([i.name for i in
sqlhub.processConnection.columnsFromSchema("sign_entry", SignEntry)])
Oleg.
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