formal-sqlcommenter 1.0.3

Formal sql commenter

Formal sqlcommenter

Formal sqlcommenter is a plugin that enables your ORMs to augment SQL statement before execution, with a comment containing the end-user id of a request. Sqlcommenter is typically useful for back-office application that needs to implement role access management.

• Psycopg2

Local Install

pip3 install --user formal-sqlcommenter

Usage

Psycopg2

Use the provided cursor factory to generate database cursors. All queries executed with such cursors will have the SQL comment prepended to them.

import psycopg2
from formal.sqlcommenter.psycopg2.extension import CommenterCursorFactory

cursor_factory = CommenterCursorFactory()
conn = psycopg2.connect(..., cursor_factory=cursor_factory)
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute('SELECT * from ...', '1234') # comment will be added before execution

which will produce a backend log such as when viewed on Postgresql

2019-05-28 02:33:25.287 PDT [57302] LOG:  statement: SELECT * FROM
polls_question *--formal_role_id: 1234 */