fully usable within declarative relationship configuration, as its
string classname would not be available in the registry of classnames
at mapper configuration time.   The class now explicitly adds itself
to the class regsitry, and additionally both :class:`.AbstractConcreteBase`
as well as :class:`.ConcreteBase` set themselves up *before* mappers
are configured within the :func:`.configure_mappers` setup, using
the new :meth:`.MapperEvents.before_configured` event. [ticket:2950]

- Added new :meth:`.MapperEvents.before_configured` event which allows
an event at the start of :func:`.configure_mappers`, as well
as ``__declare_first__()`` hook within declarative to complement
``__declare_last__()``.

- modified how after_configured is invoked; we just make a dispatch()
not actually connected to any mapper.  this makes it easier
to also invoke before_configured correctly.

- improved the ComparableEntity fixture to handle collections that are sets.

raise the :class:`.InvalidRequestError` that invokes when called
on a query with existing criterion, when the given identity is
already present in the identity map. [ticket:2951]

to a base class such as a declarative base with the propagate=True
flag would fail to apply to existing mapped classes which also
used inheritance due to an assertion.  Addtionally, repaired an
attribute error which could occur during removal of such an event,
depending on how it was first assigned. [ticket:2949]

calling ``MyClass.attribute`` will not require that the configure
mappers step has occurred, e.g. it will just work without throwing
any error. [ticket:2935]

oriented row lookups were not matching up to the ad-hoc :class:`.ColumnClause`
objects that :class:`.TextAsFrom` generates, thereby making it not
usable as a target in :meth:`.Query.from_statement`.  Also fixed
:meth:`.Query.from_statement` mechanics to not mistake a :class:`.TextAsFrom`
for a :class:`.Select` construct.  This bug is also an 0.9 regression
as the :meth:`.Text.columns` method is called to accommodate the
:paramref:`.text.typemap` argument. [ticket:2932]

to disable autoflush, in the case that the attribute needs to lazy-load
the "old" value, as in when replacing one-to-one values or some
kinds of many-to-one.  A flush at this point otherwise occurs
at the point that the attribute is None and can cause NULL violations.
[ticket:2921]

:class:`.Query` and in other situations where selects or joins
were aliased (such as joined table inheritance) could fail if a
user-defined :class:`.Column` subclass were used in the expression.
In this case, the subclass would fail to propagate ORM-specific
"annotations" along needed by the adaptation.  The "expression
annotations" system has been corrected to account for this case.
[ticket:2918]

target of :paramref:`.relationship.secondary` for the purposes
of creating very complex :func:`.relationship` join conditions.
The change includes adjustments to query joining, joined eager loading
to not render a SELECT subquery, changes to lazy loading such that
the "secondary" target is properly included in the SELECT, and
changes to declarative to better support specification of a
join() object with classes as targets.

Fix TypeError for class_mapper called w/ iterable