On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Matthew Moisen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I now have comments activated for my joins and exists and some other
> functions. I'm still at a loss for how to add comments to an indivdiual
> column, function, or CASE in the select statment. Would you mind giving me a
> pointer?


I added a POC to the wiki to illustrate your original SELECT statement:

https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/wiki/UsageRecipes/CompiledComments


>
> Any idea how I can go about monkey patching the base ClauseElement?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Matthew
>
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Mike Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Moisen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm using Classic SQLAlchemy to create SQL statements, which are later
>> > formatted with sqlparse and stored in a file. I'm not executing the SQL
>> > through SQLAlchemy.
>> >
>> >
>> > Some of the queries have complexities that would benefit from a
>> > comments. Is
>> > there any way to get SQLAlchemy to output a query like the following?
>> >
>> >
>> > -- Comment explaining the query
>> > SELECT foo,
>> >  -- comment explaining the convoluted case statement
>> >  CASE WHEN .. END as complicated_case,
>> >  -- comment exaplaining the convoluted window function
>> >  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ..., ORDER BY ...) as
>> > complicated_row_num
>> >
>> > FROM bar JOIN (
>> >  -- Comment explaining subquery and join
>> >  SELECT ...
>> > ) WHERE 1=1
>> >    -- comment explaining the purpose of the EXISTS clause
>> >    AND EXISTS (SELECT ...)
>> >
>> > Reading through this user group, I saw a few posts related to comments
>> > and
>> > the ORM. The recommended solution was this link:
>> >
>> > https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/wiki/UsageRecipes/SessionModifiedSQL
>> >
>> > However for my use case, I am not executing any of the sql. I'm
>> > basically
>> > doing things like this:
>> >
>> > sel = select([...])
>> > sql = str(sel.compile(dialect=oracle.dialect(),
>> > compile_kwargs={'literal_binds': True})
>>
>>
>> you would need to create custom compilation functions for all the
>> constructs you're looking to add comments with, and additionally tack
>> on a comment to each one manually:
>>
>> join = foo.join(bar)
>> join.comment = "some comment"
>>
>> then you'd need to compile for Join:
>>
>> from sqlalchemy.ext.compiler import compiles
>>
>> @compiles(Join)
>> def _comment_join(element, compiler, **kw):
>>     comment = getattr(element, 'comment')
>>     if comment:
>>        text = "-- %s" % comment
>>    else:
>>        text = ""
>>     return text + compiler.visit_join(element, **kw)
>>
>>
>> a bit tedious but it would be a start and can perhaps be generalized a
>> bit once you get it going for many constructs.    You can in theory
>> monkeypatch a comment() method onto the base ClauseElement construct
>> to.
>>
>> see http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/compiler.html .
>>
>> >
>> > with open(file_name, 'w') as f:
>> >     f.write(sql)
>> >
>> > Thanks and best regards,
>> >
>> > Matthew Moisen
>> >
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