there is append_from()

joins know how to find their "components" that are already in the  
selectable and replace them.

On Mar 5, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Dennis wrote:

>
> I'm playing around with dynamically building a query.  I can append
> columns, where clauses, from objects etc... but what about the case
> where I want to modify the from obj with a join?
>
> For example I can do this:
>
> sel=select()
> sel.append_from(a)
> sel.append_from(b)
> sel.append_whereclause(a.c.id==b.c.id)
>
> That won't work for an outerjoin though.  I have a query that works
> like this now:
>
> select ( [...], from_obj=[a.outerjoin(b)] )
>
> but I can't figure out a way to add the outerjoin dynamically.  I
> looked at clause visitors but there doesn't seem like a way to
> actually modify an existing join.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> Dennis
>
>
> >


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