Misc changes:

- Update database models to the new declarative mapping syntax
  See https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/orm/mapping_styles.html#orm-declarative-mapping
- Make use of Flask-SQLAlchemy to manage database connections
- Remove cli command interface in favor of just deleting the
  sqlite file and reseeding when no tables are detected.
- Add list of iso639_1 language codes and names, and add to seed list
- Other changes to file structure.

data/iso639_1.csv

@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+code,name
+aa,Afar
+ab,Abkhazian
+ae,Avestan
+af,Afrikaans
+ak,Akan
+am,Amharic
+an,Aragonese
+ar,Arabic
+as,Assamese
+av,Avaric
+ay,Aymara
+az,Azerbaijani
+ba,Bashkir
+be,Belarusian
+bg,Bulgarian
+bh,Bihari
+bi,Bislama
+bm,Bambara
+bn,Bengali
+bo,Tibetan
+br,Breton
+bs,Bosnian
+ca,Catalan
+ce,Chechen
+ch,Chamorro
+co,Corsican
+cr,Cree
+cs,Czech
+cu,Church Slavic
+cv,Chuvash
+cy,Welsh
+da,Danish
+de,German
+dv,Divehi
+dz,Dzongkha
+ee,Ewe
+el,Greek
+en,English
+eo,Esperanto
+es,Spanish
+et,Estonian
+eu,Basque
+fa,Persian
+ff,Fulah
+fi,Finnish
+fj,Fijian
+fo,Faroese
+fr,French
+fy,Western Frisian
+ga,Irish
+gd,Gaelic
+gl,Galician
+gn,Guarani
+gu,Gujarati
+gv,Manx
+ha,Hausa
+he,Hebrew
+hi,Hindi
+ho,Hiri Motu
+hr,Croatian
+ht,Haitian
+hu,Hungarian
+hy,Armenian
+hz,Herero
+ia,Interlingua
+id,Indonesian
+ie,Interlingue
+ig,Igbo
+ii,Sichuan Yi
+ik,Inupiaq
+io,Ido
+is,Icelandic
+it,Italian
+iu,Inuktitut
+ja,Japanese
+jv,Javanese
+ka,Georgian
+kg,Kongo
+ki,Kikuyu
+kj,Kwanyama
+kk,Kazakh
+kl,Kalaallisut
+km,Central Khmer
+kn,Kannada
+ko,Korean
+kr,Kanuri
+ks,Kashmiri
+ku,Kurdish
+kv,Komi
+kw,Cornish
+ky,Kirghiz
+la,Latin
+lb,Luxembourgish
+lg,Ganda
+li,Limburgan
+ln,Lingala
+lo,Lao
+lt,Lithuanian
+lu,Luba-Katanga
+lv,Latvian
+mg,Malagasy
+mh,Marshallese
+mi,Maori
+mk,Macedonian
+ml,Malayalam
+mn,Mongolian
+mr,Marathi
+ms,Malay
+mt,Maltese
+my,Burmese
+na,Nauru
+nb,Norwegian Bokmål
+nd,North Ndebele
+ne,Nepali
+ng,Ndonga
+nl,Dutch
+nn,Norwegian Nynorsk
+no,Norwegian
+nr,South Ndebele
+nv,Navajo
+ny,Chichewa
+oc,Occitan
+oj,Ojibwa
+om,Oromo
+or,Oriya
+os,Ossetian
+pa,Panjabi
+pi,Pali
+pl,Polish
+ps,Pushto
+pt,Portuguese
+qu,Quechua
+rm,Romansh
+rn,Rundi
+ro,Romanian
+ru,Russian
+rw,Kinyarwanda
+sa,Sanskrit
+sc,Sardinian
+sd,Sindhi
+se,Northern Sami
+sg,Sango
+si,Sinhala
+sk,Slovak
+sl,Slovenian
+sm,Samoan
+sn,Shona
+so,Somali
+sq,Albanian
+sr,Serbian
+ss,Swati
+st,Southern Sotho
+su,Sundanese
+sv,Swedish
+sw,Swahili
+ta,Tamil
+te,Telugu
+tg,Tajik
+th,Thai
+ti,Tigrinya
+tk,Turkmen
+tl,Tagalog
+tn,Tswana
+to,Tonga
+tr,Turkish
+ts,Tsonga
+tt,Tatar
+tw,Twi
+ty,Tahitian
+ug,Uighur
+uk,Ukrainian
+ur,Urdu
+uz,Uzbek
+ve,Venda
+vi,Vietnamese
+vo,Volapük
+wa,Walloon
+wo,Wolof
+xh,Xhosa
+yi,Yiddish
+yo,Yoruba
+za,Zhuang
+zh,Chinese
+zu,Zulu

run.sh

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 # FLASK_APP=app.py FLASK_DEBUG=1 FLASK_ENV=development python3 -m flask run --host=localhost --port=5000 --debugger --reload
 
-flask --app worblehat --debug run --host=localhost --port=5000 --debugger --reload
+flask --app worblehat.flaskapp --debug run --host=localhost --port=5000 --debugger --reload

worblehat/__init__.py

@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-from flask import Flask
-from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
-from flask_admin import Admin
-from flask_admin.contrib.sqla import ModelView
-
-from os import environ, path
-from dotenv import load_dotenv
-
-from worblehat.database import db_session, init_db, drop_db
-
-def create_app():
-    app = Flask(__name__, instance_relative_config=True)
-    app.config.from_object('config.Config')
-    configure_database(app)
-    configure_admin(app)
-    configure_blueprints(app)
-
-    @app.route('/')
-    def index():
-        return 'Hello World!'
-
-    return app
-
-
-def configure_database(app):
-    @app.cli.command("initdb")
-    def initdb_command():
-        init_db()
-        print("Initialized the database.")
-
-    @app.cli.command("resetdb")
-    def resetdb_command():
-        drop_db()
-        print("Cleared the database.")
-        init_db()
-        from worblehat.models.MediaType import MediaType
-        from worblehat.models.Bookcase import Bookcase
-        from worblehat.models.Location import Location
-        from worblehat.models.Language import Language
-
-        media_types = [
-            MediaType(name='Book', description='A physical book'),
-            MediaType(name='Comic', description='A comic book'),
-            MediaType(name='Video Game', description='A digital game for computers or games consoles'),
-            MediaType(name='Tabletop Game', description='A physical game with cards, boards or similar')
-        ]
-
-        bookcases = [
-            Bookcase(name='A', description='The first bookcase'),
-            Bookcase(name='B', description='The second bookcase'),
-        ]
-        
-        locations = [
-            Location(name='1-1', description='The first location', bookcase=bookcases[0]),
-            Location(name='1-2', description='The second location', bookcase=bookcases[0]),
-            Location(name='1-1', description='The first location', bookcase=bookcases[1]),
-            Location(name='1-2', description='The second location', bookcase=bookcases[1]),
-        ]
-
-        languages = [
-            Language(name='English', shortname='en'),
-            Language(name='Norwegian', shortname='no'),
-            Language(name='Japanese', shortname='ja'),
-            Language(name='Swedish', shortname='sv'),
-            Language(name='German', shortname='de'),
-            Language(name='Russian', shortname='ru'),
-            Language(name='Danish', shortname='da')
-        ]
-
-        db_session.add_all(media_types)
-        db_session.add_all(bookcases)
-        db_session.add_all(locations)
-        db_session.add_all(languages)
-        db_session.commit()
-        print("Added media types, bookcases and locations.")
-
-
-
-    @app.teardown_appcontext
-    def shutdown_session(exception=None):
-        db_session.remove()
-
-def configure_admin(app):
-    admin = Admin(app, name='Worblehat', template_mode='bootstrap3')
-    
-    from worblehat.models.Category import Category
-    from worblehat.models.Item import Item
-    from worblehat.models.MediaType import MediaType
-    from worblehat.models.Location import Location
-    from worblehat.models.Bookcase import Bookcase
-
-    admin.add_view(ModelView(Category, db_session))
-    admin.add_view(ModelView(Item, db_session))
-    admin.add_view(ModelView(MediaType, db_session))
-    admin.add_view(ModelView(Location, db_session))
-    admin.add_view(ModelView(Bookcase, db_session))
-
-def configure_blueprints(app):
-    from worblehat.blueprints.main import main
-    blueprints = [main]
-
-    for bp in blueprints:
-        app.register_blueprint(bp)

worblehat/database.py

@@ -1,29 +1,3 @@
-from sqlalchemy import create_engine
-from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
-from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
 
-
-engine = create_engine('sqlite:///db.sqlite', convert_unicode=True)
-db_session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(autocommit=False,
-                                         autoflush=False,
-                                         bind=engine))
-Base = declarative_base()
-Base.query = db_session.query_property()
-
-def init_db():
-    # import all modules here that might define models so that
-    # they will be registered properly on the metadata.  Otherwise
-    # you will have to import them first before calling init_db()
-
-    from .models.Category import Category
-    from .models.Item import Item
-    from .models.MediaType import MediaType
-    from .models.Location import Location
-    from .models.Bookcase import Bookcase
-    from .models.Language import Language
-
-    Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)
-
-
-def drop_db():
-    Base.metadata.drop_all(bind=engine)
+db = SQLAlchemy()

worblehat/flaskapp.py

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+from flask import Flask
+from flask_admin import Admin
+from flask_admin.contrib.sqla import ModelView
+from sqlalchemy import inspect
+
+from os import environ, path
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+
+from .database import db
+from .models import *
+
+from .blueprints.main import main
+from .seed_test_data import seed_data
+
+def create_app():
+    app = Flask(__name__, instance_relative_config=True)
+    app.config.from_object('config.Config')
+
+    db.init_app(app)
+
+    with app.app_context():
+        if not inspect(db.engine).has_table('Bookcase'):
+            Base.metadata.create_all(db.engine)
+            seed_data(db)
+
+    configure_admin(app)
+
+    app.register_blueprint(main)
+
+    return app
+
+def configure_admin(app):
+    admin = Admin(app, name='Worblehat', template_mode='bootstrap3')
+    admin.add_view(ModelView(Author, db.session))
+    admin.add_view(ModelView(Bookcase, db.session))
+    admin.add_view(ModelView(BookcaseItem, db.session))
+    admin.add_view(ModelView(BookcaseLocation, db.session))
+    admin.add_view(ModelView(Category, db.session))
+    admin.add_view(ModelView(Language, db.session))
+    admin.add_view(ModelView(MediaType, db.session))

worblehat/models/Author.py

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from sqlalchemy import (
+    Integer,
+    ForeignKey,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+    relationship,
+)
+
+from .Base import Base
+from .mixins import (
+    UidMixin,
+    UniqueNameMixin,
+)
+from .xref_tables import Item_Author
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .BookcaseItem import BookcaseItem
+
+class Author(Base, UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin):
+    items: Mapped[set[BookcaseItem]] = relationship(
+        secondary = Item_Author.__table__,
+        back_populates = 'authors',
+    )
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        name: str,
+    ):
+        self.name = name

worblehat/models/Base.py

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+from sqlalchemy import MetaData
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    DeclarativeBase,
+    declared_attr,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.orm.collections import (
+    InstrumentedDict,
+    InstrumentedList,
+    InstrumentedSet,
+)
+
+class Base(DeclarativeBase):
+    metadata = MetaData(
+        naming_convention={
+            "ix": "ix_%(column_0_label)s",
+            "uq": "uq_%(table_name)s_%(column_0_name)s",
+            "ck": "ck_%(table_name)s_`%(constraint_name)s`",
+            "fk": "fk_%(table_name)s_%(column_0_name)s_%(referred_table_name)s",
+            "pk": "pk_%(table_name)s"
+        }
+    )
+
+    @declared_attr.directive
+    def __tablename__(cls) -> str:
+        return cls.__name__
+
+    def __repr__(self) -> str:
+        columns = ", ".join(
+            f"{k}={repr(v)}" for k, v in self.__dict__.items() if not any([
+                k.startswith("_"),
+
+                # Ensure that we don't try to print out the entire list of
+                # relationships, which could create an infinite loop
+                isinstance(v, Base),
+                isinstance(v, InstrumentedList),
+                isinstance(v, InstrumentedSet),
+                isinstance(v, InstrumentedDict),
+            ])
+        )
+        return f"<{self.__class__.__name__}({columns})>"

worblehat/models/Bookcase.py

@@ -1,16 +1,31 @@
-from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, Boolean
-from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
-from worblehat.database import Base
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
+from sqlalchemy import Text
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+    relationship,
+)
 
-class Bookcase(Base):
-    __tablename__ = 'bookcases'
-    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
-    name = Column(String(10), nullable=False)
-    description = Column(String(255))
+from .Base import Base
+from .mixins import (
+    UidMixin,
+    UniqueNameMixin,
+)
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .BookcaseLocation import BookcaseLocation
 
-    locations = relationship('Location', back_populates='bookcase')
+class Bookcase(Base, UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin):
+    description: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text)
 
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return '<Bookcase %r>' % self.name
+    locations: Mapped[list[BookcaseLocation]] = relationship(back_populates='bookcase')
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        name: str,
+        description: str | None = None,
+    ):
+        self.name = name
+        self.description = description
 

worblehat/models/BookcaseItem.py

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from sqlalchemy import (
+  Integer,
+  String,
+  ForeignKey,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+    relationship,
+)
+
+from .Base import Base
+from .mixins import (
+    UidMixin,
+    UniqueNameMixin,
+)
+from .xref_tables import (
+    Item_Category,
+    Item_Author,
+)
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .Author import Author
+    from .BookcaseLocation import BookcaseLocation
+    from .Category import Category
+    from .Language import Language
+    from .MediaType import MediaType
+
+class BookcaseItem(Base, UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin):
+    # NOTE: This is kept non-unique in case we have
+    #       multiple copies of the same book.
+    isbn: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(String, index=True)
+    owner: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default='PVV')
+
+    fk_media_type_uid: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, ForeignKey('MediaType.uid'))
+    fk_bookcase_location_uid: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(Integer, ForeignKey('BookcaseLocation.uid'))
+    fk_language_uid: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, ForeignKey('Language.uid'))
+
+    media_type: Mapped[MediaType] = relationship(back_populates='items')
+    location: Mapped[BookcaseLocation] = relationship(back_populates='items')
+    language: Mapped[Language] = relationship()
+
+    categories: Mapped[set[Category]] = relationship(
+        secondary = Item_Category.__table__,
+        back_populates = 'items',
+    )
+    authors: Mapped[set[Author]] = relationship(
+        secondary = Item_Author.__table__,
+        back_populates = 'items',
+    )
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        name: str,
+        isbn: int | None = None,
+        owner: str = 'PVV',
+    ):
+        self.name = name
+        self.isbn = isbn
+        self.owner = owner

worblehat/models/BookcaseLocation.py

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from sqlalchemy import (
+    Integer,
+    ForeignKey,
+    Text,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+    relationship,
+)
+
+from .Base import Base
+from .mixins import (
+    UidMixin,
+    UniqueNameMixin,
+)
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .Bookcase import Bookcase
+    from .BookcaseItem import BookcaseItem
+
+class BookcaseLocation(Base, UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin):
+    description: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text)
+
+    fk_bookcase_uid: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, ForeignKey('Bookcase.uid'))
+
+    bookcase: Mapped[Bookcase] = relationship(back_populates='locations')
+    items: Mapped[set[BookcaseItem]] = relationship(back_populates='location')
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        name: str,
+        bookcase: Bookcase,
+        description: str | None = None,
+    ):
+        self.name = name
+        self.bookcase = bookcase
+        self.description = description

worblehat/models/Category.py

@@ -1,18 +1,34 @@
-from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, Boolean, Table
-from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
-from worblehat.database import Base
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-category_association = Table('category_association', Base.metadata,
-    Column('category_id', Integer, ForeignKey('categories.id')),
-    Column('item_id', Integer, ForeignKey('items.id'))
+from sqlalchemy import Text
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+    relationship,
 )
 
-class Category(Base):
-    __tablename__ = 'categories'
-    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
-    name = Column(String(80), unique=True)
-    description = Column(String(255))
+from .Base import Base
+from .mixins import (
+    UidMixin,
+    UniqueNameMixin,
+)
+from .xref_tables import Item_Category
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .BookcaseItem import BookcaseItem
 
-    items = relationship('Item', secondary=category_association, back_populates='categories')
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return '<Category %r>' % self.name
+class Category(Base, UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin):
+    description: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text)
+
+    items: Mapped[set[BookcaseItem]] = relationship(
+        secondary=Item_Category.__table__,
+        back_populates='categories',
+    )
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        name: str,
+        description: str | None = None,
+    ):
+        self.name = name
+        self.description = description

worblehat/models/Item.py

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, Boolean
-from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
-from worblehat.database import Base
-from .Language import Language
-
-class Item(Base):
-    __tablename__ = 'items'
-    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
-
-    title = Column(String(255), nullable=False)
-    owner = Column(String(255))
-    isbn = Column(String(255))
-
-    media_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('media_types.id'), nullable=False)
-    media = relationship('MediaType', back_populates='items')
-
-    location_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('locations.id'), nullable=False)
-    location = relationship('Location', back_populates='items')
-
-    language_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('languages.id'), nullable=False)
-    language = relationship('Language', back_populates='items')
-    
-    categories = relationship('Category', secondary='category_association', back_populates='items')
-
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return '<Item %r / %r>' % (self.media.name, self.title)
-

worblehat/models/Language.py

@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
-from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, Boolean
-from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
-from worblehat.database import Base
+# from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, Boolean
+# from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
 
-class Language(Base):
-    __tablename__ = 'languages'
-    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+from sqlalchemy import String
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+)
 
-    name = Column(String(32), nullable=False)
-    shortname = Column(String(2), nullable=False)
-    flag = Column(String(3))
 
-    items = relationship('Item', back_populates='language')
+from .Base import Base
+from .mixins import UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin
 
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return '<Language %r>' % self.name
+class Language(Base, UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin):
+    iso639_1_code: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(2))
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        name: str,
+        iso639_1_code: str,
+    ):
+        self.name = name
+        self.iso639_1_code = iso639_1_code

worblehat/models/Location.py

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, Boolean
-from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
-from worblehat.database import Base
-
-
-class Location(Base):
-    __tablename__ = 'locations'
-    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
-    name = Column(String(100), nullable=False)
-    description = Column(String(255))
-
-    bookcase_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('bookcases.id'), nullable=False)
-    bookcase = relationship('Bookcase', back_populates='locations')
-
-    items = relationship('Item', back_populates='location')
-
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return '<Location %s %s>' % (self.bookcase.name, self.name)
-

worblehat/models/MediaType.py

@@ -1,19 +1,29 @@
-from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, Boolean
-from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
-from worblehat.database import Base
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
+from sqlalchemy import Text
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+    relationship,
+)
 
-class MediaType(Base):
-    __tablename__ = 'media_types'
-    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
-    name = Column(String(80), nullable=False)
-    description = Column(String(255))
-    items = relationship('Item', back_populates='media', lazy=True)
+from .Base import Base
+from .mixins import UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .BookcaseItem import BookcaseItem
 
-    def __init__(self, name, description):
+class MediaType(Base, UidMixin, UniqueNameMixin):
+    description: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text)
+
+    items: Mapped[set[BookcaseItem]] = relationship(back_populates='media_type')
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        name: str,
+        description: str | None = None,
+    ):
         self.name = name
         self.description = description
 
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return '<MediaType %r>' % self.name
 

worblehat/models/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from .Author import Author
+from .Base import Base
+from .Bookcase import Bookcase
+from .BookcaseItem import BookcaseItem
+from .BookcaseLocation import BookcaseLocation
+from .Category import Category
+from .Language import Language
+from .MediaType import MediaType

worblehat/models/mixins/UidMixin.py

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+from typing_extensions import Self
+
+from sqlalchemy import Integer
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+)
+
+from worblehat.database import db
+
+class UidMixin(object):
+    uid: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_by_uid(cls, uid: int) -> Self | None:
+        """
+        NOTE:
+        This is a flask_sqlalchemy specific method.
+        It will not work outside of a request context.
+        """
+        return db.session.query(cls).where(cls.uid == uid).one_or_none()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_by_uid_or_404(cls, uid: int) -> Self:
+        """
+        NOTE:
+        This is a flask_sqlalchemy specific method.
+        It will not work outside of a request context.
+        """
+        return db.session.query(cls).where(cls.uid == uid).one_or_404()

worblehat/models/mixins/UniqueNameMixin.py

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+from typing_extensions import Self
+
+from sqlalchemy import Text
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+)
+
+from worblehat.database import db
+
+class UniqueNameMixin(object):
+    name: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(Text, unique=True, index=True)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_by_name(cls, name: str) -> Self | None:
+        """
+        NOTE:
+        This is a flask_sqlalchemy specific method.
+        It will not work outside of a request context.
+        """
+        return db.session.query(cls).where(cls.name == name).one_or_none()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_by_uid_or_404(cls, name: str) -> Self:
+        """
+        NOTE:
+        This is a flask_sqlalchemy specific method.
+        It will not work outside of a request context.
+        """
+        return db.session.query(cls).where(cls.name == name).one_or_404()

worblehat/models/mixins/XrefMixin.py

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+from sqlalchemy.orm import declared_attr
+
+class XrefMixin(object):
+    @declared_attr.directive
+    def __tablename__(cls) -> str:
+        return f'xref_{cls.__name__.lower()}'

worblehat/models/mixins/__init__.py

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+from .UidMixin import UidMixin
+from .UniqueNameMixin import UniqueNameMixin

worblehat/models/xref_tables/Item_Author.py

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+from sqlalchemy import (
+    Integer,
+    ForeignKey,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+)
+
+from ..Base import Base
+from ..mixins.XrefMixin import XrefMixin
+
+class Item_Author(Base, XrefMixin):
+    fk_item_uid: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey('BookcaseItem.uid'), primary_key=True)
+    fk_author_uid: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey('Author.uid'), primary_key=True)

worblehat/models/xref_tables/Item_Category.py

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+from sqlalchemy import (
+    Integer,
+    ForeignKey,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.orm import (
+    Mapped,
+    mapped_column,
+)
+
+from ..Base import Base
+from ..mixins.XrefMixin import XrefMixin
+
+class Item_Category(Base, XrefMixin):
+    fk_item_uid: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey('BookcaseItem.uid'), primary_key=True)
+    fk_category_uid: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey('Category.uid'), primary_key=True)

worblehat/models/xref_tables/__init__.py

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+from .Item_Author import Item_Author
+from .Item_Category import Item_Category

worblehat/seed_test_data.py

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+import csv
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
+
+from .models import (
+    Bookcase,
+    BookcaseLocation,
+    Language,
+    MediaType,
+)
+
+def seed_data(db: SQLAlchemy):
+    media_types = [
+        MediaType(name='Book', description='A physical book'),
+        MediaType(name='Comic', description='A comic book'),
+        MediaType(name='Video Game', description='A digital game for computers or games consoles'),
+        MediaType(name='Tabletop Game', description='A physical game with cards, boards or similar')
+    ]
+
+    bookcases = [
+        Bookcase(name='A', description='The first bookcase'),
+        Bookcase(name='B', description='The second bookcase'),
+    ]
+
+    locations = [
+        BookcaseLocation(name='1-1', description='The first location', bookcase=bookcases[0]),
+        BookcaseLocation(name='1-2', description='The second location', bookcase=bookcases[0]),
+        BookcaseLocation(name='2-1', description='The third location', bookcase=bookcases[1]),
+        BookcaseLocation(name='2-2', description='The fourth location', bookcase=bookcases[1]),
+    ]
+
+    with open(Path(__file__).parent.parent / 'data' / 'iso639_1.csv') as f:
+      reader = csv.reader(f)
+      languages = [Language(name, code) for (code, name) in reader]
+
+    db.session.add_all(media_types)
+    db.session.add_all(bookcases)
+    db.session.add_all(locations)
+    db.session.add_all(languages)
+    db.session.commit()
+    print("Added test media types, bookcases and locations.")