I just fixed the error. I didn't see it before. I initialize the
userGroup attribute to new UseGroup instance in one of the migration
functions.

Thanks!

On Dec 2, 11:22 am, Michael Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Alvaro Reinoso wrote:
>
>
>
> > I think I see the error. Those are the whole tables:
>
> > class User(rdb.Model):
> >    """Represents the user"""
> >    rdb.metadata(metadata)
> >    rdb.tablename("users")
>
> >    id = Column("id", Integer, primary_key=True)
> >    name = Column("name", String(50))
> >    email = Column("email", String(50))
> >    password = Column("password", String(50))
> >    hashed = Column("hashed", Boolean)
> >    military = Column("military", Boolean)
> >    agreedLicense = Column("agreed_license", Boolean)
> >    userGroupId = Column("user_group_id", Integer,
> > ForeignKey("user_groups.id"))
>
> >    userGroup = relationship("UserGroup", uselist=False)
> >    channels = relationship("Channel", secondary=user_channels,
> > order_by="Channel.titleView", backref="users")
> >    mediaGroups = relationship("MediaGroup", secondary=user_media_groups,
> > order_by="MediaGroup.title", backref="users")
> >    screens = relationship("Screen", secondary=user_screens,
> > backref="users")
> >    screenGroups = relationship("ScreenGroup",
> > secondary=user_screen_groups, order_by="ScreenGroup.title",
> > backref="users")
>
> > class UserGroup(rdb.Model):
> >    """Represents a group of users with the same features"""
> >    rdb.metadata(metadata)
> >    rdb.tablename("user_groups")
>
> >    id = Column("id", Integer, primary_key=True)
> >    title = Column("title", String(50))
>
> >    users = relationship("User", order_by="User.name", cascade="all,
> > delete", backref="user_groups")
> >    permissions = relationship("Permission",
> > secondary=user_group_permissions, backref="user_groups")
>
> > I have pretty similar tables and relations, but the different with
> > other tables is I have this relation: userGroupId =
> > Column("user_group_id", Integer, ForeignKey("user_groups.id")). So it
> > seems every time when a user is created, it creates a new row in the
> > user_groups and that row is related to that user. I think it's because
> > of that relation.
>
> > How could I avoid this?
>
> there's really not enough detail here to see, but the only way associating 
> two existing objects together creates a row is if "secondary" is used, here 
> if "user_groups" is mapped as a secondary somewhere, which I do not see.  if 
> you've mapped to a table explicitly, you should not use that table as the 
> "secondary" argument elsewhere, or the relationship with "secondary" should 
> be set up as viewonly=True.
>
>
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > On Dec 1, 6:35 pm, Michael Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Alvaro Reinoso wrote:
>
> >>> Hello,
>
> >>> I have a system to manage users in my application, but I'm getting
> >>> some troubles with it.
>
> >>> Every user has to belong to a group of users. One user can only be in
> >>> one group.
>
> >>> I have those tables (inheriting from rdb.Model is basically the same
> >>> thing than using sqlalchemy's declarative model)
>
> >>> class User(rdb.Model):
> >>>    """Represents the user"""
> >>>    rdb.metadata(metadata)
> >>>    rdb.tablename("users")
>
> >>>    id = Column("id", Integer, primary_key=True)
> >>>    name = Column("name", String(50))
> >>>        ....
>
> >>>    userGroup = relationship("UserGroup", uselist=False)
> >>>        .....
>
> >>> class UserGroup(rdb.Model):
> >>>    """Represents a group of users with the same features"""
> >>>    rdb.metadata(metadata)
> >>>    rdb.tablename("user_groups")
>
> >>>    id = Column("id", Integer, primary_key=True)
> >>>    title = Column("title", String(50))
>
> >>>    users = relationship("User", order_by="User.name", cascade="all,
> >>> delete, delete-orphan", backref="user_groups")
> >>>        ....
>
> >>> I have a script which migrate users from a pre-existing Zope DB
> >>> (object-oriented):
>
> >>> def migrateUsers():
> >>>    """Migrate all the users to the database"""
> >>>    session = rdb.Session()
> >>>    rScreens = session.query(Screen).all()
> >>>    rUserGroups = session.query(UserGroup).all()
> >>>        .....
>
> >>>    for oldUser in grok.getSite()['Users'].values():
> >>>            user = User()
> >>>            ......
> >>>            for newGroup in rUserGroups:
> >>>                    if newGroup.title == "superadmins":
> >>>                            newGroup.users.append(user)
> >>>                ......
>
> >>>    return
>
> >>> When I execute the script, the user_groups are properly created and
> >>> the users are properly added to the user_groups they should belong to,
> >>> but I get empty "group" entries in the database, and I don't know why
>
> >>> I have made some tests, and I've realized that I get an empty entry
> >>> (an empty user_group) every time I try to add a user to a user_group,
> >>> but I don't know what is causing this behavior.
>
> >> theres no instantiation of UserGroup indicated above so no indication of 
> >> what would be creating extra "group" rows in your database.
>
> >>> Any hint will be appreciated.
>
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