we haven't made a public APi for this however the discussion of what it would look like is at https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/issues/6080 and the proposal is at https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/issues/6080#issuecomment-801253683.
What you can do now is use sqlalchemy.orm.registry explicitly for your mappings, your class name lookup is in there right now in registry._class_registry On Thu, May 27, 2021, at 11:21 AM, Brendan Blanchard wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm using a class factory to dynamically generate SQLA types and am > rightfully getting the warning: > > *SAWarning: This declarative base already contains a class with the same > class name and module name as <module.class_name>, and will be replaced in > the string-lookup table.* > ** > when I attempt to use it twice for the same parameters. But, what I was > hoping to do was use said string-lookup table (which I can't seem to find in > base.metadata or elsewhere) in my class factory such that I can call it as > many times as I want (instead of using it once and keeping a reference), and > it would return a reference to that already-created class instead of > generating the identical new one and the subsequent warning. > > Essentially I'd like something like: > > def create_cls(cls_name, tablename): > if cls_name in Base.metadata.string_lookup_table: > return Base.metadata.string_lookup_table[cls_name] > <....> > return type(cls_name, (Base,), some_dynamic_attrs_n_stuff) > > The given answer here > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11668355/sqlalchemy-get-model-from-table-name-this-may-imply-appending-some-function-to/23754464#23754464> > generates an error for Base not having an _decl_class_registry attribute > (I'm using 1.4.3 if that helps), though any solution that uses the tablename > or class/module name will work for my case. > > Thanks, > Brendan > > -- > SQLAlchemy - > The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper > > http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ > > To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and > Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full > description. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/c2ab6ab1-e6bd-4521-b064-28492300a6cdn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/c2ab6ab1-e6bd-4521-b064-28492300a6cdn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/b97a397c-7711-4215-80be-b419dbf74145%40www.fastmail.com.