Add support for synonyms in sort_query

CHANGES.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Here you can see the full list of changes between each SQLAlchemy-Utils release.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 - Fixed order by column property handling in sort_query when using polymorphic inheritance
+- Added support for synonym properties in sort_query
 
 
 0.26.7 (2014-07-29)

setup.py

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ for name, requirements in extras_require.items():
 
 setup(
     name='SQLAlchemy-Utils',
-    version='0.26.7',
+    version='0.26.8',
     url='https://github.com/kvesteri/sqlalchemy-utils',
     license='BSD',
     author='Konsta Vesterinen, Ryan Leckey, Janne Vanhala, Vesa Uimonen',

sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ from .types import (
 from .models import Timestamp
 
 
-__version__ = '0.26.7'
+__version__ = '0.26.8'
 
 
 __all__ = (

sqlalchemy_utils/functions/sort_query.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import sqlalchemy as sa
-from sqlalchemy.orm.properties import ColumnProperty
+from sqlalchemy.orm.properties import ColumnProperty, SynonymProperty
 from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import desc, asc, Label
 from sqlalchemy.orm.util import AliasedInsp
 from .orm import (
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ class QuerySorter(object):
                     return getattr(entity, property_.key)
                 else:
                     return get_expr_attr(entity, property_.key)
+            elif isinstance(property_, SynonymProperty):
+                return get_expr_attr(entity, property_.key)
             return
 
         mapper = sa.inspect(entity)

tests/test_sort_query.py

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class TestSortQuery(TestCase):
     def test_synonym_property(self):
         query = self.session.query(self.Category)
         query = sort_query(query, 'name_synonym')
-        assert_contains('ORDER BY name DESC', query)
+        assert_contains('ORDER BY category.name ASC', query)
 
     def test_hybrid_property(self):
         query = self.session.query(self.Category)