On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:48:37PM -0400, Michael Bayer wrote:
> > Info option is clearly very handy. At the moment I implemented an image
> > field in sqlkit, (that's just a bunch of handler in the gui). In order to do
> > that I used a type inherited with no addition, just to understand that that
> > field is the path to an Image:
> >
> > class Image(String): pass
> >
> > clearly another alternative would be to use info={ 'image': true} or
> > similar. Is there some caveat that would make one preferred over the other?
>
> The caveat there is that table reflection, which isn't used in your case,
> would produce VARCHAR and not String, or your custom Image type. It also
> creates a hard linkage of SQLAlchemy type objects to the behavior of your
> application. The "info" approach allows the type and your application's
> interpretation of a field to vary independently.
ok, I switched to using .info and I honestly appreciate it.
am I wrong or Columns created with orm.column_property() don't have .info
attribute? Any chance to add it?
sandro
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