Re: help creating sqlalchemy/sqlsoup code for sql query

"Jonathan Ellis" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:10:39 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.spyce.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Somehow you are not using your loop correctly and everything is getting
the same id.

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:45:31 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
<[email protected]> said:
> Thanks for this. It seems that the handler was not getting executed. 
> This is fixed now. However, I have discovered a problem with my delete 
> and update handlers. The handlers are being called however the incorrect 
> entry is deleted. I am trying to as you can probably guess allow certain 
> users to update, delete or insert items to a database. In an attempt to 
> allow certain rows of the table to be deleted or updated I have created 
> delete and update buttons. The handlers do not work as intended which is 
> down to the id variable. The id variable is taken from the database and 
> is intended to be used to identify the row to update or delete. However 
> printing the id value reveals that the id of the uppermost row in the 
> table is being used rather than the id of the row from which the button 
> is pressed.
> Could anyone explain why this is so? Does any one have an idea how I 
> could use this id variable to delete or update all the rows of the table 
> rather than just the uppermost row in the table? Or even just a way in 
> which I can allow the update and deletion of certain rows in a table?
> I am not sure if what I have just said makes sense, but any help would 
> be useful.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> MJ
> Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > Well, the first step is to make sure the handler is actually getting
> > executed.  Put a print statement in there to check.
> >
> > -J
> >
> > On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:22:33 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
> > <[email protected]> said:
> >   
> >> Thank you very much for this very helpful piece of code.
> >> I have another question. (Last one for the week, promise!) I am trying 
> >> to create a button on a page which inserts values from a form into a 
> >> database. I have defined my handler and created the button but the data 
> >> does not seem to be committed to the database. I do not get any error 
> >> messages but checking the database for the data shows that it has not 
> >> been inserted.
> >> The code for my handler is:
> >> [[!
> >>     def insertentry(self, 
> >> api,day,course,timeslottype,start,end,title,tutor):
> >>           
> >> api.db.timetable.insert(day=day,course=course,timeslottype=timeslottype,starttime=start,endtime=end,title=title,givenbby=tutor)
> >> api.db.flush()
> >> ]]
> >>
> >> The code for the button is:
> >> <f:submit handler=self.insertentry value="Insert entry" />
> >>  From reading around it seems that this should work. Is there something 
> >> I am missing?
> >> Thanks in advance for all help.
> >> MJ
> >> Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> >>     
> >>> from sqlalchemy import or_
> >>> where = or_(db.timetable.c.course=='LAA', db.timetable.c.course=='COM')
> >>> db.timetable.select(where, order_by=[db.timetable.c.day,
> >>> db.timetable.c.starttime])
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:50:07 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
> >>> <[email protected]> said:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Hi again,
> >>>> Another question which should be fairly simple to answer. I am trying to
> >>>> carry 
> >>>> out a fairly word query within my spyce code and am not sure how to do
> >>>> it. 
> >>>> The sql that I want to translate to sqlalchemy is select * from timetable 
> >>>> where course='LAA' or course='COM' order by day, starttime.
> >>>> I have tried several times to do this but I get errors trying to do both
> >>>> the 
> >>>> order by and the where clauses. 
> >>>> Any help will be gratefully received. 
> >>>> Thank you all for your help and suggestions. The login token problem is
> >>>> now 
> >>>> fixed and I have at the moment decided to use the example on the spyce
> >>>> pages 
> >>>> to help with the displaying of different pages for different users.
> >>>> Thanks again,
> >>>> MJ
> >>>>
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