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Fastapi to read from an existing database table in postgreSQL

I am trying to create a FAST Api that is reading from an already existing table in PostgreSQL database but it is giving me an internal server error. Would appreciate your direction on what might be wrong with the code
The existing table looks like this:
schema : testSchema
table : test_api
id
email
1
test#***.com
2
test2#***.com
engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine("my_database_connection")
Base = declarative_base()
database = databases.Database("my_database_connection")
metadata = sqlalchemy.MetaData()
metadata.reflect(bind=engine, schema='testSchema')
test_api_tb = metadata.tables['testSchema.test_api']
class testAPI(Base):
__tablename__ = test_api_tb
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
email = Column(String(256))
app = FastAPI()
#app.get("/testing_api/")
def read_users():
query = test_api_tb.select()
return database.execute(query)
The error I am getting from the logs
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison

The best thing you can do is to read the official documentation at fastapi.tiangolo.com, it is amazing and explains all the basics in a very detailed way.
SQL Relational Databases are used very often with FastAPI and are also mentioned in the documentation here, you can find step by step tutorial about how to use postgresql with sqlalchemy and FastAPI.
There are a few parts to make this work. The first part is to connect to the database:
engine = create_engine(my_database_connection)
SessionLocal = sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)
Base = declarative_base()
we create the engine with the connection string as you did, then we need to create a session in order to connect to the database. At the end we are creating a Base class which will help us to create the models and schemas.
Now we need to create the model using the base class just as you did above.
we need to make sure that the __tablename__ is the same as the name of the table in the database
class testAPIModel(Base):
__tablename__ = "test_api"
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
email = Column(String(256))
Now comes the main part. We need to make sure we bind the engine of the database to the base class using
Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)
Now we will create a function that will help us and create a db session instance and will close the connection when we done with the query.
def get_db():
db = SessionLocal()
try:
yield db
finally:
db.close()
Now we can create the FastAPI app instance and get the data from the database.
#app.get("/testing_api/")
def read_users(db:Session = Depends(get_db)):
users = db.query(testAPIModel).all()
return users
We are using the Depends(get_db) to inject the db session from the function we wrote above.
The full code:
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, Session
from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String
my_database_connection = "postgresql://user:password#server_ip/db_name"
engine = create_engine(my_database_connection)
SessionLocal = sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)
Base = declarative_base()
class testAPIModel(Base):
__tablename__ = "test_api"
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
email = Column(String(256))
Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)
app = FastAPI()
def get_db():
db = SessionLocal()
try:
yield db
finally:
db.close()
#app.get("/testing_api/")
def read_users(db:Session = Depends(get_db)):
users = db.query(testAPIModel).all()
return users
Good Luck!

SQLAlchemy Not Creating Tables in Postgres Database

I am having trouble writing tables to a postgres database using SQLAlchemy ORM and Python scripts.
I know the problem has something to do with incorrect Session imports because when I place all the code below into a single file, the script creates the table without trouble.
However, when I break the script up into multiple files (necessary for this project), I receive the error "psycopg2.errors.UndefinedTable: relation "user" does not exist".
I have read many posts here on SO, tried reorganising my files, the function call order, changing from non-scoped to scoped sessions, eliminating and adding Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine) in various spots, changed how the sessions are organised and created in base.py, as well as other things, but the script still errors and I'm not sure which code sequence is out of order.
The code currently looks like:
base.py:
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
# SQLAlchemy requires creating an Engine to interact with our database.
engine = create_engine('postgresql://user:pass#localhost:5432/testdb', echo=True)
# Create a configured ORM 'Session' factory to get a new Session bound to this engine
#_SessionFactory = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
# Use scoped session
db_session = scoped_session(
sessionmaker(
bind=engine,
autocommit=False,
autoflush=False
)
)
# Create a Base class for our classes definitions
Base = declarative_base()
models.py
from sqlalchemy import Column, DateTime, Integer, Text
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
Base = declarative_base()
class User(Base):
__tablename__ = 'users'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
email = Column(Text, nullable=False, unique=True)
name = Column(Text)
date_last_seen = Column(DateTime(timezone=True))
def __init__(self, email, name, date_last_seen):
self.email = email
self.name = name
self.date_last_seen = date_last_seen
inserts.py
from datetime import date
from base import db_session, engine, Base
from models import User
def init_db():
# Generate database schema based on our definitions in model.py
Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)
# Extract a new session from the session factory
#session = _SessionFactory()
# Create instance of the User class
alice = User('alice#throughthelooking.glass', 'Alice', date(1865, 11, 26))
# Use the current session to persist data
db_session.add(alice)
# Commit current session to database and close session
db_session.commit()
db_session.close()
print('Initialized the db')
return
if __name__ == '__main__':
init_db()
Thank you for any insight you're able to offer!

SQLAlchemy scoped_session update on thread wont commit

I'm a total noob to SQLAlchemy here, but I'm having an issue updating an object from a threaded scoped_session. I'm planning to run several threads, all of which, will be updating different rows in the database, each with their own scoped_session. But I can't seem to get the scoped sessions to commit and actually update the .db file.
Below is the minimal code that recreates my issue:
from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, scoped_session
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from threading import Thread
session_factory = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
Session = scoped_session(session_factory)
session1 = Session()
Base = declarative_base()
class Order(Base):
__tablename__ = "orders"
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True)
name = Column(String)
def __init__(self, iterable=(), **kwargs):
self.__dict__.update(iterable, **kwargs)
Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
session1.add(Order({'name':'bill'}))
session1.commit()
orders = session1.query(Order).all()
print(orders[0].name)
def funct():
session2 = Session()
orders[0].name = "ted"
session2.commit()
Session.remove()
print(orders[0].name)
t1 = Thread(target=funct)
t1.start()
the output from this (as expected) is:
bill
ted
[Finished in 0.3s]
But after running this, the .db file still only has one row with "bill"... I don't understand why it is not being updated to "ted"... I've spent some time reading thru the SQLAlchemy docs multiple times, but like I mentioned, I'm a total noob and a lot of it is over my head.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
-Brandon

Using Flask-SQLAlchemy without Flask

I had a small web service built using Flask and Flask-SQLAlchemy that only held one model. I now want to use the same database, but with a command line app, so I'd like to drop the Flask dependency.
My model looks like this:
class IPEntry(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
ip_address = db.Column(db.String(16), unique=True)
first_seen = db.Column(db.DateTime(),
default = datetime.datetime.utcnow
)
last_seen = db.Column(db.DateTime(),
default = datetime.datetime.utcnow
)
#validates('ip')
def validate_ip(self, key, ip):
assert is_ip_addr(ip)
return ip
Since db will no longer be a reference to flask.ext.sqlalchemy.SQLAlchemy(app), how can I convert my model to use just SQLAlchemy. Is there a way for the two applications (one with Flask-SQLAlchemy the other with SQLAlchemy) to use the same database?

you can do this to replace db.Model:
from sqlalchemy import orm
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
import sqlalchemy as sa
base = declarative_base()
engine = sa.create_engine(YOUR_DB_URI)
base.metadata.bind = engine
session = orm.scoped_session(orm.sessionmaker())(bind=engine)
# after this:
# base == db.Model
# session == db.session
# other db.* values are in sa.*
# ie: old: db.Column(db.Integer,db.ForeignKey('s.id'))
# new: sa.Column(sa.Integer,sa.ForeignKey('s.id'))
# except relationship, and backref, those are in orm
# ie: orm.relationship, orm.backref
# so to define a simple model
class UserModel(base):
__tablename__ = 'users' #<- must declare name for db table
id = sa.Column(sa.Integer,primary_key=True)
name = sa.Column(sa.String(255),nullable=False)
then to create the tables:
base.metadata.create_all()

That is how to use SQLAlchemy without Flask (for example to write a bulk of objects to PostgreSQL database):
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
# Define variables DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_NAME
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = f'postgresql://{DB_USERNAME}:{DB_PASSWORD}#{DB_HOST}:
{DB_PORT}/{DB_NAME}'
# ----- This is related code -----
engine = create_engine(SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI, echo=True)
Base = declarative_base()
Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
Session.configure(bind=engine)
session = Session()
# ----- This is related code -----
class MyModel(Base):
__tablename__ = 'my_table_name'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
value = Column(String)
objects = [MyModel(id=0, value='a'), MyModel(id=1, value='b')]
session.bulk_save_objects(objects)
session.commit()

Check this one github.com/mardix/active-alchemy
Active-Alchemy is a framework agnostic wrapper for SQLAlchemy that makes it really easy to use by implementing a simple active record like api, while it still uses the db.session underneath. Inspired by Flask-SQLAlchemy

There is a great article about Flask-SQLAlchemy: how it works, and how to modify models to use them outside of Flask:
http://derrickgilland.com/posts/demystifying-flask-sqlalchemy/

The sqlalchemy docs has a good tutorial with examples that sound like what you want to do.
Shows how to connect to a db, mapping, schema creation, and querying/saving to the db.

This does not completely answer your question, because it does not remove Flask dependency, but you can use SqlAlchemy in scripts and tests by just not running the Flask app.
from flask import Flask
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from sqlalchemy import MetaData
test_app = Flask('test_app')
test_app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'database_uri'
test_app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = False
metadata = MetaData(schema='myschema')
db = SQLAlchemy(test_app, metadata=metadata)
class IPEntry(db.Model):
pass
One difficulty you may encounter is the requirement of using db.Model as a base class for your models if you want to target the web app and independent scripts using same codebase. Possible way to tackle it is using dynamic polymorphism and wrap the class definition in a function.
def get_ipentry(db):
class IPEntry(db.Model):
pass
return IPEntry
As you construct the class run-time in the function, you can pass in different SqlAlchemy instances. Only downside is that you need to call the function to construct the class before using it.
db = SqlAlchemy(...)
IpEntry = get_ipentry(db)
IpEntry.query.filter_by(id=123).one()

Flask (> 1.0) attempt to provide helpers for sharing code between an web application and a command line interface; i personally think it might be cleaner, lighter and easier to build libraries unbound to flask, but you might want to check:
https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/cli/
https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/api/#flask.Flask.cli

Create database and table
import os
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
if os.path.exists('test.db'):
os.remove('test.db')
Base = declarative_base()
class Person(Base):
__tablename__ = 'person'
id = Column(Integer(), primary_key=True)
name = Column(String())
engine = create_engine('sqlite:///test.db')
Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
Using Flask_SQLAlchemy directly
from flask import Flask
from sqlalchemy import MetaData
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = True
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///test.db'
db = SQLAlchemy(app, metadata=MetaData())
class Person(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'person'
id = Column(Integer(), primary_key=True)
name = Column(String())
person = Person(name='Bob')
db.session.add(person)
db.session.commit()
print(person.id)

How to use postgres numeric range with SQLAlchemy

I can't happen to find much on using Postgres range types in SQLAlchemy other than this. Does anyone know how to insert new column values into a numrange column? Does anyone have some code snippets or more documentation than the one I already found?

This has been added to the official documentation: https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/issue/3046/postgresql-range-types-need-better
Had to dig around for this, but when in doubt, check the tests! The SQLAlchemy tests for the range types use the underlying psycopg2 types.
from psycopg2.extras import NumericRange
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import INT4RANGE
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
engine = create_engine('postgresql:///example', echo=True)
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()
Base = declarative_base(bind=engine)
class Example(Base):
__tablename__ = 'example'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
window = Column(INT4RANGE, nullable=False)
Base.metadata.create_all()
session.add(Example(window=NumericRange(2, 6)))
session.add(Example(window=NumericRange(4, 8)))
session.commit()