Reputation: 2101
I am using sqlalchemy for a project. However, I am more accustomed to Django's ORM.
I would like to know if, in the sqlachemy ORM, there is anything similar to a Django models' save() method that I can overrride to implement actions automatically upon a 'commit' / 'save.'
Upvotes: 32
Views: 17972
Reputation: 319
Good news for you!
I created package for that. It implements Active Record pattern for SQLAlchemy.
See https://github.com/absent1706/sqlalchemy-mixins#active-record
It also has many very useful features such as Django lookups that span relationship, declarative eager load and readable print
for SQAlchemy.
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 806
You can extend your models with some simple crud methods to achieve something similar to Django ORM / ActiveRecord:
# SQLAlchemy db_session setup omitted
...
Model = declarative_base(name='Model')
Model.query = db_session.query_property()
class CRUD():
def save(self):
if self.id == None:
db_session.add(self)
return db_session.commit()
def destroy(self):
db_session.delete(self)
return db_session.commit()
class User(Model, CRUD):
__tablename__ = 'users'
id = db.Column(db.integer, primary_key=True)
email = db.Column(db.String(120), unique=True)
def __init__(self, email):
self.email = email
You can then save or destroy the model as needed:
user = User('[email protected]')
user.save()
Upvotes: 36
Reputation: 2949
Probably, you are looking for ORM events.
Take a look at instance events and session events.
Upvotes: 6