[PonyORM-list] Pony ORM Release 0.5.4

[Alexey Malashkevich]

Hi all,

Pony ORM Release 0.5.4 is out!

New functions and methods:
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pony.orm.serialization module with the to_dict() and to_json() functions
was added. Before this release you could use the to_dict() method of an
entity instance in order to get a key-value dictionary structure for a
specific entity instance. Sometimes you might need to serialize not only
the instance itself, but also the instance’s related objects. In this case
you can use the to_dict() function from the pony.orm.serialization module.

to_dict() – receives an entity instance or a list of instances and
returns a dictionary structure which keeps the passed object(s) and
immediate related objects

to_json() – uses `to_dict()` and returns JSON representation of the
to_dict() result Query.prefetch() – allows to specify which related
objects or attributes should be loaded from the database along with
the query result . Example:

      select(s for s in Student).prefetch(Group, Department,
Student.courses)

obj.flush() – allows flush a specific entity to the database

obj.get_pk() – return the primary key value for an entity instance

py_check parameter for attributes added. This parameter allows you to
specify
a function which will be used for checking the value before it is assigned
to the
attribute. The function should return True/False or can raise ValueError
exception
if the check failed. Example:

    class Student(db.Entity):
        name = Required(unicode)
        gpa = Required(float, py_check=lambda v: v >= 0 and v <= 5)


New types:
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time and timedelta – now you can use these types for attribute declaration.
Also you can use timedelta and a combination of datetime + timedelta types
inside queries.


New features:
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after_insert, after_update, after_delete - hooks added. These hooks are
called when an object was inserted, updated or deleted in the database
respectively.

Added support for pymysql – pure Python MySQL client. Currently it is used
as a fallback for MySQLdb interface


Other changes and bug fixes:
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obj.order_by() method is deprecated, use Entity.select().order_by() instead
obj.describe() now displays composite primary keys
Fixes #50: PonyORM does not escape _ and % in LIKE queries
Fixes #51: Handling of one-to-one relations in declarative queries
Fixes #52: An attribute without a column should not have rbits & wbits
Fixes #53: Column generated at the wrong side of "one-to-one" relationship
Fixes #55: obj.to_dict() should do flush at first if the session cache is
modified
Fixes #57: Error in to_dict() when to-one attribute value is None
Fixes #70: EntitySet allows to add and remove None
Check that the entity name starts with a capital letter and throw exception
if it is not then raise the 'ERDiagramError: Entity class name should start
with
a capital letter' exception

Here is the link to the blog post which includes links to the updated
documentation:
http://blog.ponyorm.com/2014/09/22/pony-orm-release-0-5-4/

Regards,
Alexey
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