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+"""Example of caching objects in a per-session cache,
+including implicit usage of the statement and params as a key.
+
+"""
+from sqlalchemy.orm.query import Query
+from sqlalchemy.orm.session import Session
+
+class CachingQuery(Query):
+
+ # single point of object loading is __iter__(). objects in the cache are not associated
+ # with a session and are never returned directly; only merged copies.
+ def __iter__(self):
+ try:
+ cache = self.session._cache
+ except AttributeError:
+ self.session._cache = cache = {}
+
+ stmt = self.statement.compile()
+ params = stmt.params
+ params.update(self._params)
+ cachekey = str(stmt) + str(params)
+
+ try:
+ ret = cache[cachekey]
+ except KeyError:
+ ret = list(Query.__iter__(self))
+ cache[cachekey] = ret
+
+ return iter(ret)
+
+
+# example usage
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ from sqlalchemy import Column, create_engine, Integer, String
+ from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+ from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+
+ Session = sessionmaker(query_cls=CachingQuery)
+
+ Base = declarative_base(engine=create_engine('sqlite://', echo=True))
+
+ class User(Base):
+ __tablename__ = 'users'
+ id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+ name = Column(String(100))
+
+ def __repr__(self):
+ return "User(name=%r)" % self.name
+
+ Base.metadata.create_all()
+
+ sess = Session()
+
+ sess.add_all(
+ [User(name='u1'), User(name='u2'), User(name='u3')]
+ )
+ sess.commit()
+
+ # issue a query
+ print sess.query(User).filter(User.name.in_(['u2', 'u3'])).all()
+
+ # issue another
+ print sess.query(User).filter(User.name == 'u1').all()
+
+ # pull straight from cache
+ print sess.query(User).filter(User.name.in_(['u2', 'u3'])).all()
+
+ print sess.query(User).filter(User.name == 'u1').all()
+
+
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+"""Example of caching objects in a per-session cache.
+
+
+This approach is faster in that objects don't need to be detached/remerged
+between sessions, but is slower in that the cache is empty at the start
+of each session's lifespan.
+
+"""
+
+from sqlalchemy.orm.query import Query, _generative
+from sqlalchemy.orm.session import Session
+
+class CachingQuery(Query):
+
+ # generative method to set a "cache" key. The method of "keying" the cache
+ # here can be made more sophisticated, such as caching based on the query._criterion.
+ @_generative()
+ def with_cache_key(self, cachekey):
+ self.cachekey = cachekey
+
+ # single point of object loading is __iter__(). objects in the cache are not associated
+ # with a session and are never returned directly; only merged copies.
+ def __iter__(self):
+ if hasattr(self, 'cachekey'):
+ try:
+ cache = self.session._cache
+ except AttributeError:
+ self.session._cache = cache = {}
+
+ try:
+ ret = cache[self.cachekey]
+ except KeyError:
+ ret = list(Query.__iter__(self))
+ cache[self.cachekey] = ret
+
+ return iter(ret)
+
+ else:
+ return Query.__iter__(self)
+
+# example usage
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ from sqlalchemy import Column, create_engine, Integer, String
+ from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+ from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+
+ Session = sessionmaker(query_cls=CachingQuery)
+
+ Base = declarative_base(engine=create_engine('sqlite://', echo=True))
+
+ class User(Base):
+ __tablename__ = 'users'
+ id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+ name = Column(String(100))
+
+ def __repr__(self):
+ return "User(name=%r)" % self.name
+
+ Base.metadata.create_all()
+
+ sess = Session()
+
+ sess.add_all(
+ [User(name='u1'), User(name='u2'), User(name='u3')]
+ )
+ sess.commit()
+
+ # cache two user objects
+ sess.query(User).with_cache_key('u2andu3').filter(User.name.in_(['u2', 'u3'])).all()
+
+ # pull straight from cache
+ print sess.query(User).with_cache_key('u2andu3').all()
+