- [feature] Various API tweaks to the "dialect"

    API to better support highly specialized
    systems such as the Akiban database, including
    more hooks to allow an execution context to
    access type processors.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py
index 21e02fcdc..f43c0404e 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py
@@ -625,6 +625,16 @@ class DefaultExecutionContext(interfaces.ExecutionContext):
     def post_exec(self):
         pass
 
+    def get_result_processor(self, type_, colname, coltype):
+        """Return a 'result processor' for a given type as present in
+        cursor.description.
+
+        This has a default implementation that dialects can override
+        for context-sensitive result type handling.
+
+        """
+        return type_._cached_result_processor(self.dialect, coltype)
+
     def get_lastrowid(self):
         """return self.cursor.lastrowid, or equivalent, after an INSERT.