sqlalchemy-datatables

Usage

The package is available on PyPI

pip install sqlalchemy-datatables

A simple example

models.py

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'users'

    id          = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)::
    name        = Column(Text, unique=True)
    created_at  = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow)

    address     = relationship("Address", uselist=False, backref="user")

    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

class Address(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'addresses'

    id          = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    description = Column(Text, unique=True)
    user_id     = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('users.id'))

    def __init__(self, description):
        self.description = description

views.py

from .models import DBSession, User
from datatables import ColumnDT, DataTables

def _upper(chain):
    ret = chain.upper()
    if ret:
        return ret
    else:
        return chain

@view_config(route_name='home', renderer='templates/home.pt')
def home(request):
    return {'project': 'test-project'}

@view_config(route_name='simple_example', request_method='GET', renderer='json')
def simple_example(request):
    # defining columns
    columns = []
    columns.append(ColumnDT('id'))
    columns.append(ColumnDT('name', filter=_upper))
    columns.append(ColumnDT('address.description')) # where address is an SQLAlchemy Relation
    columns.append(ColumnDT('created_at', filter=str))

    # defining the initial query depending on your purpose
    query = DBSession.query(User).join(Address).filter(Address.id > 14)

    # instantiating a DataTable for the query and table needed
    rowTable = DataTables(request, User, query, columns)

    # returns what is needed by DataTable
    return rowTable.output_result()

templates/home.pt

<!--do your stuff-->
<table class="table" id="simple-example">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Id</th>
            <th>User name</th>
            <th>Address description</th>
            <th>Created at</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody></tbody>
</table>
<!--do your stuff-->
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $('#simple-example').dataTable({
            "bProcessing": true,
            "bServerSide": true,
            "sAjaxSource": "${request.route_path('simple_example')}"
        });
    });
</script>

Testing the Pyramid based ''test-project''

$ git clone
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages sqlalchemy-datatables
$ cd sqlalchemy-datatables/
Once only:
$ bin/python setup.py develop

$ cd test-project/
$ $venv/bin/python setup.py develop
$ $venv/bin/initialize_test-project_db development.ini
$ $venv/bin/pserve development.ini

Open a web browser and got to the url localhost:6543

Changelog

v0.1.6 (16/12/2013)

Allow package to run with python 3.*
README modifications

v0.1.5 (18/10/2013)

Become aware of bSearchable_* properties, while doing a global search
Fixed bug throwed while searching Id columns
Fixing bug throwed while showing in ColumnDT, an SQLAlchemy's @hybrid_property or a Python @property
README modifications

v0.1.4 (17/09/2013)

Searching individual columns, with special like possibilities

v0.1.3 (16/09/2013)

Fixing setup.py's README error on develop

v0.1.2 (13/08/2013)

Fixing errors due to relationships (filtering, sorting)
Setting filter default value to str, avoiding JSON serializable type errors

v0.1.1 (12/08/2013)

Fixing viewing column relationships

v0.1.0 (12/08/2013)

First version

License

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