"""Serializer/Deserializer objects for usage with SQLAlchemy query structures, allowing "contextual" deserialization. Any SQLAlchemy query structure, either based on sqlalchemy.sql.* or sqlalchemy.orm.* can be used. The mappers, Tables, Columns, Session etc. which are referenced by the structure are not persisted in serialized form, but are instead re-associated with the query structure when it is deserialized. Usage is nearly the same as that of the standard Python pickle module:: from sqlalchemy.ext.serializer import loads, dumps metadata = MetaData(bind=some_engine) Session = scoped_session(sessionmaker()) # ... define mappers query = Session.query(MyClass).filter(MyClass.somedata=='foo').order_by(MyClass.sortkey) # pickle the query serialized = dumps(query) # unpickle. Pass in metadata + scoped_session query2 = loads(serialized, metadata, Session) print query2.all() Similar restrictions as when using raw pickle apply; mapped classes must be themselves be pickleable, meaning they are importable from a module-level namespace. The serializer module is only appropriate for query structures. It is not needed for: * instances of user-defined classes. These contain no references to engines, sessions or expression constructs in the typical case and can be serialized directly. * Table metadata that is to be loaded entirely from the serialized structure (i.e. is not already declared in the application). Regular pickle.loads()/dumps() can be used to fully dump any ``MetaData`` object, typically one which was reflected from an existing database at some previous point in time. The serializer module is specifically for the opposite case, where the Table metadata is already present in memory. """ from sqlalchemy.orm import class_mapper, Query from sqlalchemy.orm.session import Session from sqlalchemy.orm.mapper import Mapper from sqlalchemy.orm.attributes import QueryableAttribute from sqlalchemy import Table, Column from sqlalchemy.engine import Engine from sqlalchemy.util import pickle import re import base64 # Py3K #from io import BytesIO as byte_buffer # Py2K from cStringIO import StringIO as byte_buffer # end Py2K # Py3K #def b64encode(x): # return base64.b64encode(x).decode('ascii') #def b64decode(x): # return base64.b64decode(x.encode('ascii')) # Py2K b64encode = base64.b64encode b64decode = base64.b64decode # end Py2K __all__ = ['Serializer', 'Deserializer', 'dumps', 'loads'] def Serializer(*args, **kw): pickler = pickle.Pickler(*args, **kw) def persistent_id(obj): #print "serializing:", repr(obj) if isinstance(obj, QueryableAttribute): cls = obj.impl.class_ key = obj.impl.key id = "attribute:" + key + ":" + b64encode(pickle.dumps(cls)) elif isinstance(obj, Mapper) and not obj.non_primary: id = "mapper:" + b64encode(pickle.dumps(obj.class_)) elif isinstance(obj, Table): id = "table:" + str(obj) elif isinstance(obj, Column) and isinstance(obj.table, Table): id = "column:" + str(obj.table) + ":" + obj.key elif isinstance(obj, Session): id = "session:" elif isinstance(obj, Engine): id = "engine:" else: return None return id pickler.persistent_id = persistent_id return pickler our_ids = re.compile(r'(mapper|table|column|session|attribute|engine):(.*)') def Deserializer(file, metadata=None, scoped_session=None, engine=None): unpickler = pickle.Unpickler(file) def get_engine(): if engine: return engine elif scoped_session and scoped_session().bind: return scoped_session().bind elif metadata and metadata.bind: return metadata.bind else: return None def persistent_load(id): m = our_ids.match(id) if not m: return None else: type_, args = m.group(1, 2) if type_ == 'attribute': key, clsarg = args.split(":") cls = pickle.loads(b64decode(clsarg)) return getattr(cls, key) elif type_ == "mapper": cls = pickle.loads(b64decode(args)) return class_mapper(cls) elif type_ == "table": return metadata.tables[args] elif type_ == "column": table, colname = args.split(':') return metadata.tables[table].c[colname] elif type_ == "session": return scoped_session() elif type_ == "engine": return get_engine() else: raise Exception("Unknown token: %s" % type_) unpickler.persistent_load = persistent_load return unpickler def dumps(obj, protocol=0): buf = byte_buffer() pickler = Serializer(buf, protocol) pickler.dump(obj) return buf.getvalue() def loads(data, metadata=None, scoped_session=None, engine=None): buf = byte_buffer(data) unpickler = Deserializer(buf, metadata, scoped_session, engine) return unpickler.load()