>
> I don’t understand. Do you mean at the configuration level? e.g.:
>
> class TableB(Base):
> # …
>
> name = relationship(TableA) # “name_id” is auto created?
Right,
So when a person is adding rows to TableB, they have a few ways of doing it.
1. If they know or lookup the actual PK of table_a.name they can add the
row to
table_b by passing the integer value into table_b.name_id, like someone
would
do in native SQL.
2. They can pass an object of TableA with the string value of table_a.name
in effect
producing the lookup otherwise done manually above.
3. If the values and integrity rules permitted, they could pass
table_b.name = TableA(name='foo') without even pre populating
table_a. As an aside, this would be ideal but I have never known how to add
the
'OR IGNORE' prefixes modifier to make that work. TableA only has a few
values
for which many rows in TableB will reference more than once.
What I wanted to know was if it was possible to construct either a table
definition
for TableB so that someone could simply pass in actual values of
table_a.name
to meta columns in table_b. For example if #3 above is not possible and
table_a
has been pre populated:
table_a:
id name
-- ----
1 foo
2 bar
3 biz
To populate table_b:
data = [
TableB(name='foo'),
TableB(name='bar')
TableB(name='biz')
]
session.add_all(data)
Of course table_b has ~13 columns for which many combinations of values from
all the intermediate tables will produce unique rows...
Thanks,
jlc
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