a small orm
written to provide a lightweight querying interface over sql
uses sql concepts when querying, like joins, group by, having, etc.
pagination is handled for you automatically
Examples:
# a simple query selecting a user User.select().where(username='charles') # get the tweets by a user named charles and order the newest to oldest Tweet.select().order_by(('pub_date', 'desc')).join(User).where(username='charles') # how many active users are there? User.select().where(active=True).count() # paginate the user table and show me page 3 (users 41-60) User.select().order_by(('username', 'asc')).paginate(3, 20) # order users by number of tweets User.select({ User: ['*'], Tweet: [Count('id', 'num_tweets')] }).group_by('id').join(Tweet).order_by(('num_tweets', 'desc'))
subqueries
smells like django:
import peewee class Blog(peewee.Model): title = peewee.CharField() def __unicode__(self): return self.title class Entry(peewee.Model): title = peewee.CharField(max_length=50) content = peewee.TextField() pub_date = peewee.DateTimeField() blog = peewee.ForeignKeyField(Blog) def __unicode__(self): return '%s: %s' % (self.blog.title, self.title)
gotta connect:
>>> from peewee import database >>> database.connect()
create some tables:
>>> Blog.create_table() >>> Entry.create_table()
>>> b = Blog(title="Peewee's Big Adventure") >>> b.save() >>> e = Entry(title="Greatest movie ever?", content="YES!", blog=b) >>> e.save() >>> e.blog <Blog: Peewee's Big Adventure> >>> for e in b.entry_set: ... print e.title ... Greatest movie ever?
queries come in 4 flavors (select/update/insert/delete).
there's the notion of a query context which is the model being selected or joined on:
User.select().where(active=True).order_by(('username', 'asc'))
since User is the model being selected, the where clause and the order_by will pertain to attributes on the User model. User is the current query context when the .where() and .order_by() are evaluated.
an example using joins:
Tweet.select().where(deleted=False).order_by(('pub_date', 'desc')).join( User ).where(active=True)
this will select non-deleted tweets from active users. the first .where() and .order_by() occur when Tweet is the current query context. As soon as the join is evaluated, User becomes the query context and so the following where() pertains to the User model.
for users familiar with django's orm, I've implemented OR queries and complex query nesting using similar notation:
User.select().where( Q(is_superuser = True) | Q(is_staff = True) ) SomeModel.select().where( (Q(a='A') | Q(b='B')) & (Q(c='C') | Q(d='D')) ) # generates something like: # SELECT * FROM some_obj # WHERE ((a = "A" OR b = "B") AND (c = "C" OR d = "D"))