Re: [Sqlalchemy-users] Re: SQLAlchemy declarative layer

2006-03-03 Thread HD Mail
Ben Bangert wrote: On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: Maybe I'm being dumb, but can't you already do this? SQLAlchemy already supports custom types for column data (so, for instance, one of my tables is returning a special UUID object based on a string column in the databas

Re: [Sqlalchemy-users] Re: SQLAlchemy declarative layer

2006-03-03 Thread Ben Bangert
On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: Maybe I'm being dumb, but can't you already do this? SQLAlchemy already supports custom types for column data (so, for instance, one of my tables is returning a special UUID object based on a string column in the database). Or is this

Re: [Sqlalchemy-users] Re: SQLAlchemy declarative layer

2006-03-03 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 3 Mar 2006, at 01:58, Ben Bangert wrote:On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Michael Bayer wrote: If I understand correctly from a conversation I had with Ben the other day, he wants to tack on metadata information onto class properties mostly for the purpose of providing clues to a view layer about how

Re: [Sqlalchemy-users] Re: SQLAlchemy declarative layer

2006-03-02 Thread Ben Bangert
On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Michael Bayer wrote: If I understand correctly from a conversation I had with Ben the other day, he wants to tack on metadata information onto class properties mostly for the purpose of providing clues to a view layer about how to handle/display that object. thi

Re: [Sqlalchemy-users] Re: SQLAlchemy declarative layer

2006-03-02 Thread Jonathan LaCour
Michael Bayer wrote: What do you mean exactly? Richer automatic discovery sounds good, but I am not entirely sure what you are talking about :) If I understand correctly from a conversation I had with Ben the other day, he wants to tack on metadata information onto class properties mostly

Re: [Sqlalchemy-users] Re: SQLAlchemy declarative layer

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Bayer
On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Jonathan LaCour wrote: Ben also wrote: I should mention that I have some interest as well in expanding on the declarative layer to include some extra information necessary for richer automatic discovery of model-type information. How much is working right now

[Sqlalchemy-users] Re: SQLAlchemy declarative layer

2006-03-01 Thread Jonathan LaCour
I got an email asking about how to help with the ActiveMappper layer that I have started on, and I thought it might be a good idea to send my response to the mailing list, so other people could know what needs to get done. Ben Bangert wrote: I've been watching your posts on the declarative

[Sqlalchemy-users] Re: SQLAlchemy declarative layer

2006-03-01 Thread Jonathan LaCour
I got an email asking about how to help with the ActiveMappper layer that I have started on, and I thought it might be a good idea to send my response to the mailing list, so other people could know what needs to get done. Ben Bangert wrote: I've been watching your posts on the declarative