Ok, thank you very much, one more time!
And thank you to Ladislav Lenart as well.

Le jeudi 8 août 2013 15:33:58 UTC+2, Michael Bayer a écrit :
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2013, at 2:02 AM, Etienne Rouxel 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I tried the use of where(e) but it fires the following error:
> AttributeError: 'Query' object has no attribute 'where'
>
>
> sorry, I meant "filter()"
>
>
>
> I tried with filter(e) instead and the query does not fire any error but 
> the result is not exactly what is expected. Here is the query:
>
> e = session.query(Plant).\ 
>     join(Article, Plant.articles).\ 
>     join(Catalogitem, Article.catalogitems).\ 
>     filter(Catalogitem.marketingseason == marketingseason).\ 
>     exists()
> taxon = session.query(Taxon).filter(e)
>
> Here is the SQL output:
>
> SELECT botany.taxon.id AS botany_taxon_id 
> FROM botany.taxon 
> WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 
>     FROM botany.plant 
>     JOIN product.article ON botany.plant.id = product.article.plant_id 
>     JOIN catalog.catalogitem ON product.article.plant_id = 
> catalog.catalogitem.plant_id AND product.article.article_id = 
> catalog.catalogitem.article_id 
>     WHERE :param_1 = catalog.catalogitem.marketingseason_id 
> )
>
> As we can see, the subquery is not correlated to the enclosing query via 
> the relationship Taxon.plant (the "AND botany.plant.taxon_id = 
> botany.taxon.id" is missing in the subquery).
> Is it possible to do that?
>
>
> the solution you have where you've named "Plant.taxon_id == Taxon.id" is 
> the right approach.  When your exists() is embedded into an enclosing 
> query, Taxon.id doesn't add "Taxon" to the local FROM clause and instead 
> knows to correlate to the enclosing query.
>
> However, I would like (if possible) to fully take advantage of SQLAlchemy 
> and avoid writing the test with the columns explicitly. Indeed, I have 
> composite primary keys with 4 columns in some of my other real case 
> scenario so that would be great if I could say something like: Plant.taxon 
> == Taxon of the enclosing query.
>
>
> I think that syntax should be added as a supported feature, however you 
> can get that now using this notation, since you just want the join 
> condition of Plant.taxon:
>
>     e = session.query(Plant).\
>         join(Article, Plant.articles).\
>         join(Catalogitem, Article.catalogitems).\
>         filter(Catalogitem.marketingseason == marketingseason).\
>         filter(Plant.taxon.expression).\
>         exists()
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I join a new file (example2.py) with the new query.
>
> Le mercredi 7 août 2013 20:56:43 UTC+2, Michael Bayer a écrit :
>>
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Etienne Rouxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello
>>
>> Long story cut short, I would like to know if it is possible to generate 
>> a query with SQLAlchemy ORM such as the one below and how.
>>
>>     SELECT botany.taxon.id AS botany_taxon_id
>>     FROM botany.taxon 
>>     WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
>>         FROM botany.plant 
>>         JOIN product.article ON botany.plant.id = 
>> product.article.plant_id
>>         JOIN catalog.catalogitem ON product.article.plant_id = 
>> catalog.catalogitem.plant_id AND product.article.article_id = 
>> catalog.catalogitem.article_id
>>         WHERE :param_1 = catalog.catalogitem.marketingseason_id
>>         AND botany.plant.taxon_id = botany.taxon.id
>>     )
>>
>> Put differently, it is like the regular use of EXISTS (
>> http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/orm/tutorial.html#using-exists) 
>> but with a more complex subquery that contains JOINs.
>>
>> Is it possible to do such a query?
>>
>>
>>
>> Query has an exists() method that will turn the SELECT you've constructed 
>> into an EXISTS: 
>> http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/orm/query.html?highlight=query.exists#sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query.exists
>>  So you say "e = query(Plant).join(..).join(..).filter(...).exists(); 
>>  query(Taxon).where(e)".
>>
>> before we had that method you also could construct the joins using 
>> orm.join() and then use sqlalchemy.exists() to produce a select, but the 
>> Query method is a shortcut on that.
>>
>>
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