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| -rwxr-xr-x | lib/sqlalchemy/ext/declarative.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/ext/declarative.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/ext/declarative.py index dc84c5dfb..46d267faa 100755 --- a/lib/sqlalchemy/ext/declarative.py +++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/ext/declarative.py @@ -185,6 +185,15 @@ the :class:`.MetaData` object used by the declarative base:: id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) keywords = relationship("Keyword", secondary=keywords) +Like other :func:`.relationship` arguments, a string is accepted as well, +passing the string name of the table as defined in the ``Base.metadata.tables`` +collection:: + + class Author(Base): + __tablename__ = 'authors' + id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) + keywords = relationship("Keyword", secondary="keywords") + As with traditional mapping, its generally not a good idea to use a :class:`.Table` as the "secondary" argument which is also mapped to a class, unless the :class:`.relationship` is declared with ``viewonly=True``. |