Completely untested, but what about:
class A(SQLObject):
class sqlmeta:
idName = 'Ident'
class A1(A):
class sqlmeta(A.sqlmeta):
table = 'TableA1'
- Luke
Quoting Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> I have encountered a situation where I'd like to define a common
> subclass (in the sense of Python) for a set of closely related and quite
> bulky SQLObject classes. Actually, at least now, these classes differ
> only by sqlmeta.table, but in the future this might change. Now, a vital
> part of the class structure specification is that each table has the
> same primary key name. Thus, it would be nice to have the id name
> declared inside the class scope, not in the sqlmeta, like this:
>
> class A(SQLObject):
> _idName = "Ident"
> # a lot of other definitions: fields, instance and class methods
>
> class A1(A):
> class sqlmeta: table="TableA1"
> pass # possibly something more elaborate some day
>
> class A2(A):
> class sqlmeta: table="TableA2"
> pass # possibly something more elaborate some day
>
> This of course does not quite work on SQLObject 0.7.1 and 0.7.2 (I
> suppose used to work in the more remote past?). There are two problems
> here: the _idName gets erased in subclasses defining sqlmeta, and (a
> minor wart) _idName is deprecated so the code spits a warning. I believe
> the situation described above is a legitimate reason to undeprecate
> _idName and make it work with subclasses defining sqlmeta - this would
> probably require checking if id name is defined in both places and
> throwing an error on this or somethinig. If you like the idea, I may be
> able to send a patch in a few days.
>
> Robert
>
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