table:
id(integer primary key)
data(blob)
I use mysql and sqlalchemy. To insert data I use:
o = Demo()
o.data = mydata
session.add(o)
session.commit()
I would like to insert to table like that:
INSERT INTO table(data) VALUES(COMPRESS(mydata))
How can I do this using sqlalchemy?
you can assign a SQL function to the attribute:
from sqlalchemy import func
object.data = func.compress(mydata)
session.add(object)
session.commit()
Here's an example using a more DB-agnostic lower() function:
from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import *
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
Base= declarative_base()
class A(Base):
__tablename__ = "a"
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
data = Column(String)
e = create_engine('sqlite://', echo=True)
Base.metadata.create_all(e)
s = Session(e)
a1 = A()
a1.data = func.lower("SomeData")
s.add(a1)
s.commit()
assert a1.data == "somedata"
you can make it automatic with @validates:
from sqlalchemy.orm import validates
class MyClass(Base):
# ...
data = Column(BLOB)
@validates("data")
def _set_data(self, key, value):
return func.compress(value)
if you want it readable in python before the flush, you'd need to memoize it locally and use a descriptor to access it.
object = object()seems not a good idea to me. You are overwriting the type nameobject...