unambiguous tracking of all object lifecycle state transitions
in terms of the :class:`.Session` itself, e.g. pending,
transient, persistent, detached. The state of the object
within each event is also defined.
fixes#2677
- Added a new session lifecycle state :term:`deleted`. This new state
represents an object that has been deleted from the :term:`persistent`
state and will move to the :term:`detached` state once the transaction
is committed. This resolves the long-standing issue that objects
which were deleted existed in a gray area between persistent and
detached. The :attr:`.InstanceState.persistent` accessor will
**no longer** report on a deleted object as persistent; the
:attr:`.InstanceState.deleted` accessor will instead be True for
these objects, until they become detached.
- The :paramref:`.Session.weak_identity_map` parameter is deprecated.
See the new recipe at :ref:`session_referencing_behavior` for
an event-based approach to maintaining strong identity map behavior.
references #3517
become an externally usable package but still remains within the main sqlalchemy parent package.
in this system, we use kind of an ugly hack to get the noseplugin imported outside of the
"sqlalchemy" package, while still making it available within sqlalchemy for usage by
third party libraries.
- remove() on a scalar object will raise if the object
removed is not what was present.
- InstanceState can be pickled if obj() is None; this
to support the other changes in this commit
- only use trackparent flag on attributes if
single_parent or ONETOMANY; otherwise we can skip this
overhead
- attribute hasparent()/sethasparent() check that trackparent
is set, else their usage is invalid
- [bug] Fixed backref behavior when "popping" the
value off of a many-to-one in response to
a removal from a stale one-to-many - the operation
is skipped, since the many-to-one has since
been updated. [ticket:2315]
- [bug] After some years of not doing this, added
more granularity to the "is X a parent of Y"
functionality, which is used when determining
if the FK on "Y" needs to be "nulled out" as well
as if "Y" should be deleted with delete-orphan
cascade. The test now takes into account the
Python identity of the parent as well its identity
key, to see if the last known parent of Y is
definitely X. If a decision
can't be made, a StaleDataError is raised. The
conditions where this error is raised are fairly
rare, requiring that the previous parent was
garbage collected, and previously
could very well inappropriately update/delete
a record that's since moved onto a new parent,
though there may be some cases where
"silent success" occurred previously that will now
raise in the face of ambiguity.
Expiring "Y" resets the "parent" tracker, meaning
X.remove(Y) could then end up deleting Y even
if X is stale, but this is the same behavior
as before; it's advised to expire X also in that
case. [ticket:2264]
Mike Bayer