On the other hand, I'm not doing anything in my custom cls passed to
declarative_base which could not be done in a mixin class [1].

[1] 
http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/orm/extensions/declarative.html#mixin-and-custom-base-classes

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Robert Forkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> sqlahelpers tried to do exactly this; but this approach makes it
> impossible to provide arguments for the construction of the
> declarative base [1]. I moved away from sqlahelpers because I wanted
> to supply my own base class.
> regards,
> robert
>
>
> [1] 
> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/05/reference/ext/declarative.html#sqlalchemy.ext.declarative.declarative_base
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Chris McDonough <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 02:02 +0100, Viktor Nagy wrote:
>>> hi,
>>
>> I'm no SQLAlchemy expert but out of curiosity, why can't there be a
>> "master" package that all the apps depend on that declares a Base that
>> all the other packages depend on and import from?
>>
>> - C
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm stuck and sweating with a "should be simple, so common" problem
>>> related sqlalchemy and portable pyramid app development.
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like bind together several apps using config.include.
>>> All these apps use their own DBSession and Base declarations. The
>>> DBSession shouldn't cause any troubles as scoped session is used
>>> everywhere, but this is not true about the Base declarations.
>>>
>>>
>>> If I don't want to import the Base of one of my apps (it's not
>>> feasible in my case anyway), then I have to move  every already
>>> defined table from other models' metadata to this Base.metadata,
>>> otherwise SQLAlchemy can not find related tables as they are contained
>>> within separate metadatas.
>>>
>>>
>>> Moreover, even when I come up with some really dirty solution and
>>> manage to run the pserve, the populate script needs a different
>>> approach just like writing tests, and it seems to me that in every
>>> situation I should invent new approaches, and I'm running out of
>>> ideas. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess that overcoming such situations should be a common task, so I
>>> would be glad if you would share your experiences with me.
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Viktor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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