This is kind of a mixed bag of all kinds to help get us
to 1.4 betas. The documentation stuff is a work in
progress. Lots of other relatively small changes to
APIs and things. More commits will follow to continue
improving the documentation and transitioning to the
1.4/2.0 hybrid documentation. In particular some refinements
to Session usage models so that it can match Engine's
scoping / transactional patterns, and a decision to
start moving away from "subtransactions" completely.
* add select().from_statement() to produce FromStatement in an
ORM context
* begin referring to select() that has "plugins" for the few edge
cases where select() will have ORM-only behaviors
* convert dynamic.AppenderQuery to its own object that can use
select(), though at the moment it uses Query to support legacy
join calling forms.
* custom query classes for AppenderQuery are replaced by
do_orm_execute() hooks for custom actions, a separate gerrit
will document this
* add Session.get() to replace query.get()
* Deprecate session.begin->subtransaction. propose within the
test suite a hypothetical recipe for apps that rely on this
pattern
* introduce Session construction level context manager,
sessionmaker context manager, rewrite the whole top of the
session_transaction.rst documentation. Establish context manager
patterns for Session that are identical to engine
* ensure same begin_nested() / commit() behavior as engine
* devise all new "join into an external transaction" recipe,
add test support for it, add rules into Session so it
just works, write new docs. need to ensure this doesn't
break anything
* vastly reduce the verbosity of lots of session docs as
I dont think people read this stuff and it's difficult
to keep current in any case
* constructs like case(), with_only_columns() really need
to move to *columns, add a coercion rule to just change
these.
* docs need changes everywhere I look. in_() is not in
the Core tutorial? how do people even know about it?
Remove tons of cruft from Select docs, etc.
* build a system for common ORM options like populate_existing
and autoflush to populate from execution options.
* others?
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