sqlalchemy-filters-plus 1.1.5

SQLAlchemy filters made easy

sqlalchemy-filters-plus is a light-weight extendable library for filtering queries with sqlalchemy.

Install

pip install sqlalchemy-filters-plus

Usage

This library provides an easy way to filter your SQLAlchemy queries, which can for example be used by your users as a filtering mechanism for your exposed models via an API.

Let's define an example of models that will be used as a base query.

from sqlalchemy import Column, Date, Integer, String, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref

Base = declarative_base()


class User(Base):
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    email = Column(String)
    age = Column(Integer)
    birth_date = Column(Date, nullable=False)


class Article(Base):
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    title = Column(String)
    user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey(User.id), nullable=False)
    user = relationship(
        User,
        uselist=False,
        lazy="select",
        backref=backref("articles", uselist=True, lazy="select"),
    )

Define your first filter

Let's then define our first Filter class for the Article model

from sqlalchemy_filters import Filter, StringField
from sqlalchemy_filters.operators import ContainsOperator


class ArticleFilter(Filter):
    title = StringField(lookup_operator=ContainsOperator)
    email = StringField(field_name="user.email")

    class Meta:
        model = Article
        session = my_sqlalchemy_session

The example above defines a new filter class attached to the Article model, we declared two fields to filter with, title with the lookup_operator ContainsOperator and an email field which points to the user's email, hence the field_name="user.email" without any lookup_operator (default value is EqualsOperator) that will be used to filter with on the database level. We will see other operators that can also be used.

To apply the filter class, we instantiate it and pass it the data(as a dictionary) to filter with.

my_filter = ArticleFilter(data={"email": "[e-mail]", "title": "python"})
query = my_filter.apply()  # query is a SQLAlchemy Query object

Please read the full documentation here https://sqlalchemy-filters-plus.readthedocs.io/