On Jun 11, 2010, at 5:16 AM, jpeck wrote:

> I am trying to map to a simple read only property. According to the
> docs, I *think* I am supposed to use synonym. The problem is that I am
> getting a None value for the mapped descriptor's column.
> 
> For example:
> 
> import datetime
> from sqlalchemy import Column, Table, Integer, String, MetaData,
> create_engine
> from sqlalchemy.orm import mapper, sessionmaker, synonym
> 
> meta = MetaData()
> foo_table = Table('foo', meta,
>    Column('id', String(3), primary_key=True),
>    Column('description', String(64), nullable=False),
>    Column('calculated_value', Integer, nullable=False),
>    )
> 
> class Foo(object):
>    def __init__(self, id, description):
>        self.id = id
>        self.description = description
> 
>    @property
>    def calculated_value(self):
>        self._calculated_value = datetime.datetime.now().second + 10
>        return self._calculated_value
> 
> mapper(Foo, foo_table,
>    properties = {
>        'calculated_value' : synonym('_calculated_value',
> map_column=True)
>    }
> )


wouldn't this be simpler ?

class Foo(object):
    def __init__(self, id, description):
        self.id = id
        self.description = description
        self.calculated_value = datetime.now().second + 10

mapper(Foo, foo_table)

want it read only ?


class Foo(object):
    def __init__(self, id, description):
        self.id = id
        self.description = description
        self._calculated_value = datetime.now().second + 10

    @property
    def calculated_value(self):
        return self._calculated_value

mapper(Foo, foo_table, 
properties={'_calculated_value':foo_table.c.calculated_value})


another option is to stick "datetime.now().second + 10" into theTable directly 
as a "default" for the Column.  If it were still empty at flush time, it would 
get persisted at that point.

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