From: Mike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:24:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: create() statements return the created object so they can be instantiated and
X-Git-Tag: rel_0_1_3~35
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6bdf9e7eb3e2b8736b34598382536a0a6dbc122e;p=thirdparty%2Fsqlalchemy%2Fsqlalchemy.git

create() statements return the created object so they can be instantiated and
create()'ed in one line
---

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine.py
index 56488a197c..2b9a99fddd 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine.py
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ class SQLEngine(schema.SchemaEngine):
     def create(self, entity, **params):
         """creates a table or index within this engine's database connection given a schema.Table object."""
         entity.accept_schema_visitor(self.schemagenerator(**params))
+        return entity
 
     def drop(self, entity, **params):
         """drops a table or index within this engine's database connection given a schema.Table object."""
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
index 8e9a434825..2e8e407709 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ class Table(sql.TableClause, SchemaItem):
         del self.engine.tables[key]
     def create(self, **params):
         self.engine.create(self)
+        return self
     def drop(self, **params):
         self.engine.drop(self)
     def toengine(self, engine, schema=None):
@@ -462,6 +463,7 @@ class Index(SchemaItem):
                                                            self.table))
     def create(self):
        self.engine.create(self)
+       return self
     def drop(self):
        self.engine.drop(self)
     def execute(self):