On Aug 19, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Yap Sok Ann wrote:

> With declarative base, is it possible to use a relationship within a
> column_property?

you mean, as I am seeing below, to use the "any()" operator produced by a 
relationship...

> Here's some sample code to illustrate what I want to
> achieve:
> 
>    players = relation('Player', back_populates='team')
> 
>    # This doesn't work
>    #has_star_player = column_property(players.any(star=True))
> 
>    # This works
>    has_star_player = column_property(
>        exists().where(id == Player.team_id).where(Player.star ==
> True))
> 
> # This also works
> Team.__mapper__.add_property(
>    'has_star_player2',
>    column_property(Team.players.any(star=True)),
> )

so that's your answer - the two approaches you have are fine.  For the other 
one, you'd call players.comparator.any(), but that also doesn't work since the 
relationship is not aware of its parent mapper at that point.


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