Is anyone familiar with ActiveRecord's "has_many :through" relations for models? I'm not really a Rails guy, but that's basically what I'm trying to do.
As a contrived example consider Projects, Programmers, and Assignments:
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy import Column, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.types import Integer, String, Text
from sqlalchemy.orm import relation
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
Base = declarative_base()
class Assignment(Base):
__tablename__ = 'assignment'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
description = Column(Text)
programmer_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('programmer.id'))
project_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('project.id'))
def __init__(self, description=description):
self.description = description
def __repr__(self):
return '<Assignment("%s")>' %
self.description
class Programmer(Base):
__tablename__ = 'programmer'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
name = Column(String(64))
assignments = relation("Assignment", backref='programmer')
def __init__(self, name=name):
self.name = name
def __repr__(self):
return '<Programmer("%s")>' %
self.name
class Project(Base):
__tablename__ = 'project'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
name = Column(String(64))
description = Column(Text)
assignments = relation("Assignment", backref='project')
def __init__(self, name=name, description=description):
self.name = name
self.description = description
def __repr__(self):
return '<Project("%s", "%s...")>' % (self.name,
self.description[:10])
engine = create_engine('sqlite://')
Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()
Projects have many Assignments.
Programmers have many Assignments. (understatement?)
But in my office at least, Programmers also have many Projects - I'd like this relationship to be inferred through the Assignments assigned to the Programmer.
I'd like the Programmer model to have a attribute "projects" which will return a list of Projects associated to the Programmer through the Assignment model.
me = session.query(Programmer).filter_by(name='clay').one()
projects = session.query(Project).\
join(Project.assignments).\
join(Assignment.programmer).\
filter(Programmer.id==me.id).all()
How can I describe this relationship clearly and simply using the sqlalchemy declarative syntax?
Thanks!
