Is there a way to create custom methods to the query object so you can do something like this?
User.query.all_active()
Where all_active() is essentially .filter(User.is_active == True)
And be able to filter off of it?
User.query.all_active().filter(User.age == 30)
You can subclass the base Query class to add your own methods:
from sqlalchemy.orm import Query
class MyQuery(Query):
def all_active(self):
return self.filter(User.is_active == True)
You then tell SQLAlchemy to use this new query class when you create the session (docs here). From your code it looks like you might be using Flask-SQLAlchemy, so you would do it as follows:
db = SQLAlchemy(session_options={'query_cls': MyQuery})
Otherwise you would pass the argument directly to the sessionmaker:
sessionmaker(bind=engine, query_cls=MyQuery)
As of right now, this new query object isn't that interesting because we hardcoded the User class in the method, so it won't work for anything else. A better implementation would use the query's underlying class to determine which filter to apply. This is slightly tricky but can be done as well:
class MyOtherQuery(Query):
def _get_models(self):
"""Returns the query's underlying model classes."""
if hasattr(query, 'attr'):
# we are dealing with a subquery
return [query.attr.target_mapper]
else:
return [
d['expr'].class_
for d in query.column_descriptions
if isinstance(d['expr'], Mapper)
]
def all_active(self):
model_class = self._get_models()[0]
return self.filter(model_class.is_active == True)
Finally, this new query class won't be used by dynamic relationships (if you have any). To let those also use it, you can pass it as argument when you create the relationship:
users = relationship(..., query_class=MyOtherQuery)
this work for me finely
from sqlalchemy.orm import query
from flask_sqlalchemy import BaseQuery
class ParentQuery(BaseQuery):
def _get_models(self):
if hasattr(query, 'attr'):
return [query.attr.target_mapper]
else:
return self._mapper_zero().class_
def FilterByCustomer(self):
model_class = self._get_models()
return self.filter(model_class.customerId == int(g.customer.get('customerId')))
#using like this
class AccountWorkflowModel(db.Model):
query_class = ParentQuery
.................
Second way in ver 2.0
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, Query
# Create the SQLAlchemy engine and session
engine = create_engine('your_database_url')
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()
# Define your custom query subclass
class CustomQuery(Query):
def custom_method(self, param):
# Implement your custom query method logic here
return self.filter_by(column=param)
# Associate the custom query subclass with the session
session.query = session.query_property(CustomQuery)
# Now you can use your custom method on the query object
results = session.query(Model).custom_method('your_param').all()
To provide a custom method that will be used by all your models that inherit from a particular parent, first as mentioned before inherit from the Query class:
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy, BaseQuery
from sqlalchemy.inspection import inspect
class MyCustomQuery(BaseQuery):
def all_active(self):
# get the class
modelClass = self._mapper_zero().class_
# get the primary key column
ins = inspect(modelClass)
# get a list of passing objects
passingObjs = []
for modelObj in self:
if modelObj.is_active == True:
# add to passing object list
passingObjs.append(modelObj.__dict__[ins.primary_key[0].name])
# change to tuple
passingObjs = tuple(passingObjs)
# run a filter on the query object
return self.filter(ins.primary_key[0].in_(passingObjs))
# add this to the constructor for your DB object
myDB = SQLAlchemy(query_class=MyCustomQuery)
This is for flask-sqlalchemy, for which people will still get here when looking for this answer.
