Yeah, I suppose that's the obvious solution (put them in the same file). I tried passing a string to relation and it complained that it wasn't expecting a string. I saw elsewhere on these posts that someone had said that SA worked that way, but either I'm not doing it right or it really doesn't work that way...maybe it's a bug I don't know.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Christoph Zwerschke <[email protected]> wrote: > > robneville73 schrieb: > > I have a model called Customer and a model called Order. Order is a > > child of Customer (1 Customer : N Order). > > Just as an aside, I would not call a single class a "model". The model > is the whole collection of your database objects and their relations. > > > OK, maybe this is a short way of saying it: > > How do I reference methods from other models inside of a model without > > creating this import dependency issue? > > I recommend defining related model classes inside the same module. > > Also note that SQLAlchemy allows you to pass as-yet undefined objects as > strings. > > Or, you can add attribute later, after you declared both classes (e.g. > in __init__.py, after you imported all model classes). > > -- Christoph > > > > -- Rob Neville http://www.robneville.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/robneville --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
