from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import desc, asc from .orm import get_query_descriptor class QuerySorterException(Exception): pass class QuerySorter(object): def __init__(self, silent=True, separator='-'): self.separator = separator self.silent = silent def assign_order_by(self, entity, attr, func): expr = get_query_descriptor(self.query, entity, attr) if expr is not None: return self.query.order_by(func(expr)) if not self.silent: raise QuerySorterException( "Could not sort query with expression '%s'" % attr ) return self.query def parse_sort_arg(self, arg): if arg[0] == self.separator: func = desc arg = arg[1:] else: func = asc parts = arg.split(self.separator) return { 'entity': parts[0] if len(parts) > 1 else None, 'attr': parts[1] if len(parts) > 1 else arg, 'func': func } def __call__(self, query, *args): self.query = query for sort in args: if not sort: continue self.query = self.assign_order_by( **self.parse_sort_arg(sort) ) return self.query def sort_query(query, *args, **kwargs): """ Applies an sql ORDER BY for given query. This function can be easily used with user-defined sorting. The examples use the following model definition: :: import sqlalchemy as sa from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base from sqlalchemy_utils import sort_query engine = create_engine( 'sqlite:///' ) Base = declarative_base() Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine) session = Session() class Category(Base): __tablename__ = 'category' id = sa.Column(sa.Integer, primary_key=True) name = sa.Column(sa.Unicode(255)) class Article(Base): __tablename__ = 'article' id = sa.Column(sa.Integer, primary_key=True) name = sa.Column(sa.Unicode(255)) category_id = sa.Column(sa.Integer, sa.ForeignKey(Category.id)) category = sa.orm.relationship( Category, primaryjoin=category_id == Category.id ) 1. Applying simple ascending sort :: query = session.query(Article) query = sort_query(query, 'name') 2. Appying descending sort :: query = sort_query(query, '-name') 3. Applying sort to custom calculated label :: query = session.query( Category, sa.func.count(Article.id).label('articles') ) query = sort_query(query, 'articles') 4. Applying sort to joined table column :: query = session.query(Article).join(Article.category) query = sort_query(query, 'category-name') :param query: query to be modified :param sort: string that defines the label or column to sort the query by :param silent: Whether or not to raise exceptions if unknown sort column is passed. By default this is `True` indicating that no errors should be raised for unknown columns. """ return QuerySorter(**kwargs)(query, *args)