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Release: 0.9.3 | Release Date: February 19, 2014

# Source code for examples.generic_associations.discriminator_on_association

    """discriminator_on_related.py

    Illustrates a mixin which provides a generic association
    using a single target table and a single association table,
    referred to by all parent tables.  The association table
    contains a "discriminator" column which determines what type of
    parent object associates to each particular row in the association
    table.

    SQLAlchemy's single-table-inheritance feature is used
    to target different association types.

    This configuration attempts to simulate a so-called "generic foreign key"
    as closely as possible without actually foregoing the use of real
    foreign keys.   Unlike table-per-related and table-per-association,
    it uses a fixed number of tables to serve any number of potential parent
    objects, but is also slightly more complex.

    """
    from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import as_declarative, declared_attr
    from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Integer, Column, \
                        String, ForeignKey
    from sqlalchemy.orm import Session, relationship, backref
    from sqlalchemy.ext.associationproxy import association_proxy

    @as_declarative()
    class Base(object):
        """Base class which provides automated table name
        and surrogate primary key column.

        """
        @declared_attr
        def __tablename__(cls):
            return cls.__name__.lower()
        id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)

    class AddressAssociation(Base):
        """Associates a collection of Address objects
        with a particular parent.

        """
        __tablename__ = "address_association"

        discriminator = Column(String)
        """Refers to the type of parent."""

        __mapper_args__ = {"polymorphic_on": discriminator}

    class Address(Base):
        """The Address class.

        This represents all address records in a
        single table.

        """
        association_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("address_association.id"))
        street = Column(String)
        city = Column(String)
        zip = Column(String)
        association = relationship("AddressAssociation", backref="addresses")

        parent = association_proxy("association", "parent")

        def __repr__(self):
            return "%s(street=%r, city=%r, zip=%r)" % \
                (self.__class__.__name__, self.street,
                self.city, self.zip)

    class HasAddresses(object):
        """HasAddresses mixin, creates a relationship to
        the address_association table for each parent.

        """
        @declared_attr
        def address_association_id(cls):
            return Column(Integer, ForeignKey("address_association.id"))

        @declared_attr
        def address_association(cls):
            name = cls.__name__
            discriminator = name.lower()

            assoc_cls = type(
                            "%sAddressAssociation" % name,
                            (AddressAssociation, ),
                            dict(
                                __mapper_args__={
                                    "polymorphic_identity": discriminator
                                }
                            )
                        )

            cls.addresses = association_proxy(
                        "address_association", "addresses",
                        creator=lambda addresses: assoc_cls(addresses=addresses)
                    )
            return relationship(assoc_cls,
                        backref=backref("parent", uselist=False))

    class Customer(HasAddresses, Base):
        name = Column(String)

    class Supplier(HasAddresses, Base):
        company_name = Column(String)

    engine = create_engine('sqlite://', echo=True)
    Base.metadata.create_all(engine)

    session = Session(engine)

    session.add_all([
        Customer(
            name='customer 1',
            addresses=[
                Address(
                        street='123 anywhere street',
                        city="New York",
                        zip="10110"),
                Address(
                        street='40 main street',
                        city="San Francisco",
                        zip="95732")
            ]
        ),
        Supplier(
            company_name="Ace Hammers",
            addresses=[
                Address(
                        street='2569 west elm',
                        city="Detroit",
                        zip="56785")
            ]
        ),
    ])

    session.commit()

    for customer in session.query(Customer):
        for address in customer.addresses:
            print(address)
            print(address.parent)