I would like to have a 'relationship' in an inherited (mixin) class.
However, when I create the inherited object, the relationship object is None. I cannot append to it.
How do I resolve this?
Here is code based upon the documentation
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, DateTime, Boolean, BigInteger, Float
from sqlalchemy import ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declared_attr
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
Base = declarative_base()
class Target(Base):
__tablename__ = "target"
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
class RefTargetMixin(object):
@declared_attr
def target_id(cls):
return Column('target_id', ForeignKey('target.id'))
@declared_attr
def target(cls):
return relationship("Target",
primaryjoin="Target.id==%s.target_id" % cls.__name__
)
class Foo(RefTargetMixin, Base):
__tablename__ = 'foo'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
print repr(RefTargetMixin.target)
print repr(Foo.target)
print repr(Foo().target)
The output is:
<sqlalchemy.orm.properties.RelationshipProperty object at 0x24e7890>
<sqlalchemy.orm.attributes.InstrumentedAttribute object at 0x24e7690>
None
In general, I should be able to append to the relationship object (target), but here I cannot because it is None. Why?