- @unsupported now only accepts a single target and demands a reason
for not running the test.
- @exclude also demands an exclusion reason
- Greatly expanded @testing.requires.<feature>, eliminating many
decorators in the suite and signficantly easing integration of
multi-driver support.
- New ORM test base class, and a featureful base for mapped tests
- Usage of 'global' for shared setup going away, * imports as well
- Importing testenv has no side effects- explicit functions provide similar behavior to the old immediate behavior of testbase
- testing.db has the configured db
- Fixed up the perf/* scripts
2. compiler names changed to be less verbose, unused classes removed.
3. Methods on Dialect which return compilers, schema generators, identifier preparers
have changed to direct class references, typically on the Dialect class itself
or optionally as attributes on an individual Dialect instance if conditional behavior is needed.
This takes away the need for Dialect subclasses to know how to instantiate these
objects, and also reduces method overhead by one call for each one.
4. as a result of 3., some internal signatures have changed for things like compiler() (now statement_compiler()), preparer(), etc., mostly in that the dialect needs to be passed explicitly as the first argument (since they are just class references now). The compiler() method on Engine and Connection is now also named statement_compiler(), but as before does not take the dialect as an argument.
5. changed _process_row function on RowProxy to be a class reference, cuts out 50K method calls from insertspeed.py
- much more functionality moved into ExecutionContext, which impacted
the API used by dialects to some degree
- ResultProxy and subclasses now designed sanely
- merged patch for #522, Unicode subclasses String directly,
MSNVarchar implements for MS-SQL, removed MSUnicode.
- String moves its "VARCHAR"/"TEXT" switchy thing into
"get_search_list()" function, which VARCHAR and CHAR can override
to not return TEXT in any case (didnt do the latter yet)
- implements server side cursors for postgres, unit tests, #514
- includes overhaul of dbapi import strategy #480, all dbapi
importing happens in dialect method "dbapi()", is only called
inside of create_engine() for default and threadlocal strategies.
Dialect subclasses have a datamember "dbapi" referencing the loaded
module which may be None.
- added "mock" engine strategy, doesnt require DBAPI module and
gives you a "Connecition" which just sends all executes to a callable.
can be used to create string output of create_all()/drop_all().
SchemaItem so that the traversal of items is controlled by the
ClauseVisitor itself, using the method visitor.traverse(item).
accept_visitor() methods can still be called directly but will
not do any traversal of child items. ClauseElement/SchemaItem now
have a configurable get_children() method to return the collection
of child elements for each parent object. This allows the full
traversal of items to be clear and unambiguous (as well as loggable),
with an easy method of limiting a traversal (just pass flags which
are picked up by appropriate get_children() methods). [ticket:501]
- accept_schema_visitor() methods removed, replaced with
get_children(schema_visitor=True)
- various docstring/changelog cleanup/reformatting
methods, methods that are no longer needed. slightly more constrained
useage, greater emphasis on explicitness.
- table_iterator signature fixup, includes fix for [ticket:288]
- the "primary_key" attribute of Table and other selectables becomes
a setlike ColumnCollection object; is no longer ordered or numerically
indexed. a comparison clause between two pks that are derived from the
same underlying tables (i.e. such as two Alias objects) can be generated
via table1.primary_key==table2.primary_key
- append_item() methods removed from Table and Column; preferably
construct Table/Column/related objects inline, but if needed use
append_column(), append_foreign_key(), append_constraint(), etc.
- table.create() no longer returns the Table object, instead has no
return value. the usual case is that tables are created via metadata,
which is preferable since it will handle table dependencies.
- added UniqueConstraint (goes at Table level), CheckConstraint
(goes at Table or Column level) fixes [ticket:217]
- index=False/unique=True on Column now creates a UniqueConstraint,
index=True/unique=False creates a plain Index,
index=True/unique=True on Column creates a unique Index. 'index'
and 'unique' keyword arguments to column are now boolean only; for
explcit names and groupings of indexes or unique constraints, use the
UniqueConstraint/Index constructs explicitly.
- relationship of Metadata/Table/SchemaGenerator/Dropper has been
improved so that the schemavisitor receives the metadata object
for greater control over groupings of creates/drops.
- added "use_alter" argument to ForeignKey, ForeignKeyConstraint,
but it doesnt do anything yet. will utilize new generator/dropper
behavior to implement.
Mike Bayer