On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Michael Bayer <[email protected]>wrote:

> This is the right answer.   if you
> query(Contact).with_polymorphic([Person, Organization]), you can refer to
> Person.<attribute> and Organization.<attribute> in your query.   It will
> produce a LEFT OUTER JOIN from contact to each of the related tables.
>

You guys rock, thanks!
Iain



>
>
>
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> On Sep 28, 2012, at 7:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I am not at my development environment now so I cannot test it, but I
> think you want this:
> >
> >
> http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_7/orm/inheritance.html?highlight=of_type#basic-control-of-which-tables-are-queried
> >
> > Ladislav Lenart
> >
> > PS: I'm by no means a DB or SQLA expert too :-)
> >
> >
> > Od: "Iain Duncan" <[email protected]>
> >> First off, sorry if it turns out that what I'm trying to do is smoke
> crack
> >> here, I'm by no means a DB or SQLA expert. =)
> >>
> >> I have two classes, Person and Organization, that use table inheritance
> to
> >> inherit from Contact. ( Person.id is an fkey to Contact.id ), which is
> >> working fine.
> >>
> >> I want to search from a search box and get a list of all contacts.
> >> Normally, when I'm after a set of things, I do this:
> >>
> >> def build_query(self):
> >>  return self.session.query(Person)
> >>
> >> def filter_query(self, query)
> >>    if self.search_form_values.get('name_last',None):
> >>        query =
> >> query.filter(Person.name_last==self.search_form_values.get('name_last')
> )
> >>    ...
> >>    return query
> >>
> >> And then elsewhere the query gets executed. The problem is that I want
> to
> >> get back a list of Contact objects,
> >> but I want to filter on Organization.name, Person.name_last, and
> >> Person.name_first, all from the values typed
> >> into the 'name' box on the search form. I can't figure out how to do
> this
> >> with one query, not sure if it's even possible.
> >> I'd sure like to avoid having two separate queries with interleaved
> results
> >> though.
> >>
> >> Is there some filtering kung fu that would allow me to do the above? ie
> >>
> >> - get back all Contacts that:
> >>  - have name_last or name_first match, if the Contact is a Person
> >>  - have name match, if the contact is an Organization
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Iain
> >>
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