On 19/12/12, A.M. (agentm@themactionfaction.com) wrote:
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> On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
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> > On 19/12/12, A.M. (agentm@themactionfaction.com) wrote:
> >> ...I, too, have been looking for something lightweight and quick which
> >> would allow nearly-automatic JSON generation from database rows. The
> >> trickier part is recursing a model attribute tree which always leads
> >> me back to SQLAlchemy.
> >
> > Since psycopg can return namedtuples and simplejson serialises
> > namedtuples, this should not be a difficult thing to do.
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> That doesn't help when there are columns or subselects which need to
> become part of a one-to-many or many-to-many relationship represented
> as arrays attached to the main model in JSON. That is what I meant by
> "recursing the model attribute tree".
Ah -- we do that sort of thing in the database.