import testbase from sqlalchemy import * from sqlalchemy.orm import * from testlib import * class SingleInheritanceTest(AssertMixin): def setUpAll(self): metadata = MetaData(testbase.db) global employees_table employees_table = Table('employees', metadata, Column('employee_id', Integer, primary_key=True), Column('name', String(50)), Column('manager_data', String(50)), Column('engineer_info', String(50)), Column('type', String(20)) ) employees_table.create() def tearDownAll(self): employees_table.drop() def testbasic(self): class Employee(object): def __init__(self, name): self.name = name def __repr__(self): return self.__class__.__name__ + " " + self.name class Manager(Employee): def __init__(self, name, manager_data): self.name = name self.manager_data = manager_data def __repr__(self): return self.__class__.__name__ + " " + self.name + " " + self.manager_data class Engineer(Employee): def __init__(self, name, engineer_info): self.name = name self.engineer_info = engineer_info def __repr__(self): return self.__class__.__name__ + " " + self.name + " " + self.engineer_info class JuniorEngineer(Engineer): pass employee_mapper = mapper(Employee, employees_table, polymorphic_on=employees_table.c.type) manager_mapper = mapper(Manager, inherits=employee_mapper, polymorphic_identity='manager') engineer_mapper = mapper(Engineer, inherits=employee_mapper, polymorphic_identity='engineer') junior_engineer = mapper(JuniorEngineer, inherits=engineer_mapper, polymorphic_identity='juniorengineer') session = create_session() m1 = Manager('Tom', 'knows how to manage things') e1 = Engineer('Kurt', 'knows how to hack') e2 = JuniorEngineer('Ed', 'oh that ed') session.save(m1) session.save(e1) session.save(e2) session.flush() assert session.query(Employee).all() == [m1, e1, e2] assert session.query(Engineer).all() == [e1, e2] assert session.query(Manager).all() == [m1] assert session.query(JuniorEngineer).all() == [e2] if __name__ == '__main__': testbase.main()