如何在CAST操作中包装列

时间:2013-11-06 17:44:54

标签: python sqlalchemy

我有一个带有表的MSSQL数据库,我无法更改这些表,只能与它进行只读(SELECT语句)。我正在使用sqlalchemy。我需要做的是为每个查询自动包装CAST()SQL操作中的特定列。我想在较低级别执行此操作,因此我的代码永远不需要考虑问题。我这样做的原因在this question中解释。

我的表是这样的:

from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, Sequence
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

Base = declarative_base()

class myTable(Base):
    __tablename__ = u'mytable'
    id = Column(Integer, Sequence('table_id_seq'), primary_key=True)
    problem_field = Column(DECIMAL(12, 4), nullable=True)

我一直在尝试使用这样的TypeDecorator:

from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, Sequence, types
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import cast

Base = declarative_base()

class CastToFloatType(types.TypeDecorator):
    '''Converts stored Decimal values to Floats via CAST operation
    '''
    impl = types.Numeric
    def column_expression(self, col):
        return cast(col, Float)

class myTable(Base):
    __tablename__ = u'mytable'
    id = Column(Integer, Sequence('table_id_seq'), primary_key=True)
    wrapped_field = Column(CastToFloatType, nullable=True)

但它似乎没有做任何事情。

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:8)

我认为您需要确保至少在SQLAlchemy的0.8版本上,其中添加了column_expression()功能。对此代码的简单测试就是为了这个目的:

from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, Sequence, types, Float
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import cast

Base = declarative_base()

class CastToFloatType(types.TypeDecorator):
    '''Converts stored Decimal values to Floats via CAST operation
    '''
    impl = types.Numeric
    def column_expression(self, col):
        return cast(col, Float)

class myTable(Base):
    __tablename__ = u'mytable'
    id = Column(Integer, Sequence('table_id_seq'), primary_key=True)
    wrapped_field = Column(CastToFloatType, nullable=True)

from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
s = Session()
print s.query(myTable)

输出:

SELECT mytable.id AS mytable_id, CAST(mytable.wrapped_field AS FLOAT) AS mytable_wrapped_field 
FROM mytable