I´m sorry but that does not seem to work either...I will paste the exact example  I´m testing, and maybe you can try it out. This is using python 2.4 and sqlalchemy 0.15 under windows, by the way...

test.py

---
from sqlalchemy.ext.activemapper import ActiveMapper, column, one_to_many, one_to_one
from sqlalchemy import objectstore, and_, or_, ForeignKey, String, Integer, DateTime, Binary, Boolean, Date, backref
import sqlalchemy.ext.activemapper as activemapper

class MyClass1(ActiveMapper):
   class mapping:
       __table__ = "my_tab1"
       id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
       myclasses = one_to_many('MyClass2', backref='parent')

class MyClass2(ActiveMapper):
   class mapping:
       __table__ = "my_tab2"
       id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
       parent_id = column(Integer, foreign_key='my_tab1.id')
       myclasses = one_to_many('MyClass3', backref='parent')   #If you comment out this line, everything will work just fine...

class MyClass3(ActiveMapper):
   class mapping:
       __table__ = "my_tab3"
       id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
       parent_id = column(Integer, foreign_key='my_tab2.id')
      
activemapper.engine.connect('sqlite://filename=:memory:')
activemapper.create_tables()

mc1_1 = MyClass1()
mc2_1 = MyClass2()
mc2_2 = MyClass2()

mc1_1.myclasses.append(mc2_1)
mc2_2.parent=mc1_1

for x in mc1_1.myclasses:
   print x

---


With the marked line commented out you get the two classes printed at the end, so everything seems in order. But with the "one_to_many" relationship enabled in MyClass2 you get an exception, KeyError, because it does not find the 'parent' key in MyClass2 when "mc1_1.myclasses.append(mc2_1)" gets executed.


Thanks for your help.

Gabriel.


Qvx escribió:
I have it like this and it works:

class MyClass1(ActiveMapper):
   class mapping:
       __table__ = "my_tab1"
       id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
       myclasses = one_to_many('MyClass2', backref='parent')

class MyClass2(ActiveMapper):
   class mapping:
       __table__ = "my_tab2"
       id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
       parent_id = column(Integer, foreign_key='my_tab1.id')
       myclasses = one_to_many('MyClass3', backref='parent')

class MyClass3(ActiveMapper):
   class mapping:
       __table__ = "my_tab3"
       id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
       parent_id = column(Integer, foreign_key='my_tab2.id')


On 4/4/06, Gabriel Jacobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi! I´ve been trying SQLAlchemy using Activemapper for a couple of days
and I´ve found an issue that I did not see reflected anywhere else, so
please excuse if this is a silly question.

The thing is I have a schema that´s similar to the one stated at the end
of the message. Basically it consists of three tables, each of which is
related in a kind of one parent- multiple child relation to each other,
that is...MyClass1 "owns" multiple MyClass2, and MyClass2 in turn "owns"
multiple MyClass3. Each class, where apropriate, keeps a list of their
children and receives a backref to their parent.
I don´t know if there is a fundamental problem in this way of doing
things, but the point is this just doesn´t work. And the problem seems
to be in the backrefs. For example, if I do the following:

m1 = MyClass1()
m2 = MyClass2()
m1.myclasses.append(m2)

The code will fail, saying that MyClass2 does not have a "parent"
attribute. I believe this happens because the code for ActiveMapper
processes relations as follows:

1) It adds a mapper for MyClass1 to handle its relations. Seeing that
MyClass1 has a backref, it modifies MyClass2 to add the backref.
2) It adds a mapper for MyClass2 to handle its relations, in this case
with MyClass3. But in doing this, the process erases the backref
(represented by the "parent" attribute) to MyClass1! I´ve tested this by
painfully executing step by step until I found a point where this can be
easily seen (I believe in the assign_mapper function that gets called by
ActiveMapper).

I´ve tried replacing the backrefs by what is called "Circular Mapping"
in the docs, using AddProperty to the mapper, but it does not seem to
work, probably because I am not doing it right. My final question would
then be if there is some way to accomplish what I´m trying to do with
ActiveMapper, or with the "traditional" method for using SQLAlchemy. If
this solution should involve modifying ActiveMapper I would be glad to
do it as it provides a much clearer schema than using the traditional
method.

Of course, if I eliminate the backref in MyClass1 or the one-to-many
relation in Class2, everything works fine, but this is not what I intend
to do.

Thanks for any help you can give me!

Gabriel.


PD: The schema...


class MyClass1(Activemapper):
    class mapping:
        __table__ = "MyClass1"
        id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
        myclasses = one_to_many('MyClass2', colname='parent_id',
backref='parent')


class MyClass2(Activemapper):
    class mapping:
        __table__ = "MyClass1"
        id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
        parent_id = column(Integer, foreign_key=ForeignKey('MyClass1.id'))
        myclasses = one_to_many('MyClass3', colname='parent_id',
backref='parent')


class MyClass3(Activemapper):
    class mapping:
        __table__ = "MyClass3"
        id = column(Integer, primary_key=True)
        parent_id = column(Integer, foreign_key=ForeignKey(' MyClass2.id'))




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