I know the question how to duplicate or copy a SQLAlchemy mapped object was asked a lot of times. The answer always depends on the needs or how "duplicate" or "copy" is interpreted.
This is a specialized version of the question because I got the tip to use make_transient()
for that.
But I have some problems with that. I don't really know how to handle the primary key (PK) here. In my use cases the PK is always autogenerated by SQLA (or the DB in background). But this doesn't happen with a new duplicated object.
The code is a little bit pseudo.
import sqlalchemy as sa
from sqlalchemy.orm.session import make_transient
_engine = sa.create_engine('postgres://...')
_session = sao.sessionmaker(bind=_engine)()
class MachineData(_Base):
__tablename__ = 'Machine'
_oid = sa.Column('oid', sa.Integer, primary_key=True)
class TUnitData(_Base):
__tablename__ = 'TUnit'
_oid = sa.Column('oid', sa.Integer, primary_key=True)
_machine_fk = sa.Column('machine', sa.Integer, sa.ForeignKey('Machine.oid'))
_machine = sao.relationship("MachineData")
def __str__(self):
return '{}.{}: oid={}(hasIdentity={}) machine={}(fk={})'
.format(type(self), id(self),
self._oid, has_identity(self),
self._machine, self._machine_fk)
if __name__ == '__main__':
# any query resulting in one persistent object
obj = GetOneMachineDataFromDatabase()
# there is a valid 'oid', has_identity == True
print(obj)
# should i call expunge() first?
# remove the association with any session
# and remove its “identity key”
make_transient(obj)
# 'oid' is still there but has_identity == False
print(obj)
# THIS causes an error because the 'oid' still exsits
# and is not new auto-generated (what should happen in my
# understandings)
_session.add(obj)
_session.commit()
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