Solution!!! ENUM type that works with sqlite too
Ian Charnas
it so people can find it in a google search and won't have to write it
and debug it themselves... This is a Type that emulates ENUM for
engines (like sqlite) that don't have a native ENUM type. This
*could* be augmented so that it uses the actual ENUM type for engines
that support it. For those interested, you'd add a "get_col_spec"
method (see other types in sqlalchemy/types.py for details)
class EnumType(Unicode):
"""Basic type that emulates ENUM sql type.
Useful for database engines that don't support ENUM (such as
sqlite).
required 'names' parameter must be a list of strings for this ENUM
"""
def __init__(self, names, *args, **kw):
self.names = names
super(EnumType, self).__init__(*args, **kw)
def convert_bind_param(self, value, engine):
if value is not None and value not in self.names:
raise EnumError("Value(%s) not in Enum(%s)" %
(value, ", ".join(self.names)))
return super(EnumType, self).convert_bind_param(value, engine)
and this is how you'd use it:
customers_table = Table('customer', metadata,
Column('name', String(50)),
Column('frequency', EnumType(names=['Rare', 'Occasional',
'Regular']), default='Rare'),
)
