simplelogincmd.database.session.SimpleLoginSession

class SimpleLoginSession(bind: _SessionBind | None = None, *, autoflush: bool = True, future: Literal[True] = True, expire_on_commit: bool = True, autobegin: bool = True, twophase: bool = False, binds: Dict[_SessionBindKey, _SessionBind] | None = None, enable_baked_queries: bool = True, info: _InfoType | None = None, query_cls: Type[Query[Any]] | None = None, autocommit: Literal[False] = False, join_transaction_mode: JoinTransactionMode = 'conditional_savepoint', close_resets_only: bool | _NoArg = _NoArg.NO_ARG)

Bases: Session

An extended database session

Construct a new _orm.Session.

See also the sessionmaker function which is used to generate a Session-producing callable with a given set of arguments.

Parameters:
  • autoflush

    When True, all query operations will issue a flush() call to this Session before proceeding. This is a convenience feature so that flush() need not be called repeatedly in order for database queries to retrieve results.

    See also

    Flushing - additional background on autoflush

  • autobegin

    Automatically start transactions (i.e. equivalent to invoking _orm.Session.begin()) when database access is requested by an operation. Defaults to True. Set to False to prevent a _orm.Session from implicitly beginning transactions after construction, as well as after any of the _orm.Session.rollback(), _orm.Session.commit(), or _orm.Session.close() methods are called.

    Added in version 2.0.

  • bind – An optional _engine.Engine or _engine.Connection to which this Session should be bound. When specified, all SQL operations performed by this session will execute via this connectable.

  • binds

    A dictionary which may specify any number of _engine.Engine or _engine.Connection objects as the source of connectivity for SQL operations on a per-entity basis. The keys of the dictionary consist of any series of mapped classes, arbitrary Python classes that are bases for mapped classes, _schema.Table objects and _orm.Mapper objects. The values of the dictionary are then instances of _engine.Engine or less commonly _engine.Connection objects. Operations which proceed relative to a particular mapped class will consult this dictionary for the closest matching entity in order to determine which _engine.Engine should be used for a particular SQL operation. The complete heuristics for resolution are described at Session.get_bind(). Usage looks like:

    Session = sessionmaker(binds={
        SomeMappedClass: create_engine('postgresql+psycopg2://engine1'),
        SomeDeclarativeBase: create_engine('postgresql+psycopg2://engine2'),
        some_mapper: create_engine('postgresql+psycopg2://engine3'),
        some_table: create_engine('postgresql+psycopg2://engine4'),
        })
    

    See also

    Partitioning Strategies (e.g. multiple database backends per Session)

    Session.bind_mapper()

    Session.bind_table()

    Session.get_bind()

  • class_ – Specify an alternate class other than sqlalchemy.orm.session.Session which should be used by the returned class. This is the only argument that is local to the sessionmaker function, and is not sent directly to the constructor for Session.

  • enable_baked_queries

    legacy; defaults to True. A parameter consumed by the sqlalchemy.ext.baked extension to determine if “baked queries” should be cached, as is the normal operation of this extension. When set to False, caching as used by this particular extension is disabled.

    Changed in version 1.4: The sqlalchemy.ext.baked extension is legacy and is not used by any of SQLAlchemy’s internals. This flag therefore only affects applications that are making explicit use of this extension within their own code.

  • expire_on_commit

    Defaults to True. When True, all instances will be fully expired after each commit(), so that all attribute/object access subsequent to a completed transaction will load from the most recent database state.

    See also

    Committing

  • future

    Deprecated; this flag is always True.

  • info – optional dictionary of arbitrary data to be associated with this Session. Is available via the Session.info attribute. Note the dictionary is copied at construction time so that modifications to the per- Session dictionary will be local to that Session.

  • query_cls – Class which should be used to create new Query objects, as returned by the query() method. Defaults to _query.Query.

  • twophase – When True, all transactions will be started as a “two phase” transaction, i.e. using the “two phase” semantics of the database in use along with an XID. During a commit(), after flush() has been issued for all attached databases, the prepare() method on each database’s TwoPhaseTransaction will be called. This allows each database to roll back the entire transaction, before each transaction is committed.

  • autocommit – the “autocommit” keyword is present for backwards compatibility but must remain at its default value of False.

  • join_transaction_mode

    Describes the transactional behavior to take when a given bind is a _engine.Connection that has already begun a transaction outside the scope of this _orm.Session; in other words the _engine.Connection.in_transaction() method returns True.

    The following behaviors only take effect when the _orm.Session actually makes use of the connection given; that is, a method such as _orm.Session.execute(), _orm.Session.connection(), etc. are actually invoked:

    • "conditional_savepoint" - this is the default. if the given _engine.Connection is begun within a transaction but does not have a SAVEPOINT, then "rollback_only" is used. If the _engine.Connection is additionally within a SAVEPOINT, in other words _engine.Connection.in_nested_transaction() method returns True, then "create_savepoint" is used.

      "conditional_savepoint" behavior attempts to make use of savepoints in order to keep the state of the existing transaction unchanged, but only if there is already a savepoint in progress; otherwise, it is not assumed that the backend in use has adequate support for SAVEPOINT, as availability of this feature varies. "conditional_savepoint" also seeks to establish approximate backwards compatibility with previous _orm.Session behavior, for applications that are not setting a specific mode. It is recommended that one of the explicit settings be used.

    • "create_savepoint" - the _orm.Session will use _engine.Connection.begin_nested() in all cases to create its own transaction. This transaction by its nature rides “on top” of any existing transaction that’s opened on the given _engine.Connection; if the underlying database and the driver in use has full, non-broken support for SAVEPOINT, the external transaction will remain unaffected throughout the lifespan of the _orm.Session.

      The "create_savepoint" mode is the most useful for integrating a _orm.Session into a test suite where an externally initiated transaction should remain unaffected; however, it relies on proper SAVEPOINT support from the underlying driver and database.

      Tip

      When using SQLite, the SQLite driver included through Python 3.11 does not handle SAVEPOINTs correctly in all cases without workarounds. See the sections Serializable isolation / Savepoints / Transactional DDL and Serializable isolation / Savepoints / Transactional DDL (asyncio version) for details on current workarounds.

    • "control_fully" - the _orm.Session will take control of the given transaction as its own; _orm.Session.commit() will call .commit() on the transaction, _orm.Session.rollback() will call .rollback() on the transaction, _orm.Session.close() will call .rollback on the transaction.

      Tip

      This mode of use is equivalent to how SQLAlchemy 1.4 would handle a _engine.Connection given with an existing SAVEPOINT (i.e. _engine.Connection.begin_nested()); the _orm.Session would take full control of the existing SAVEPOINT.

    • "rollback_only" - the _orm.Session will take control of the given transaction for .rollback() calls only; .commit() calls will not be propagated to the given transaction. .close() calls will have no effect on the given transaction.

      Tip

      This mode of use is equivalent to how SQLAlchemy 1.4 would handle a _engine.Connection given with an existing regular database transaction (i.e. _engine.Connection.begin()); the _orm.Session would propagate _orm.Session.rollback() calls to the underlying transaction, but not _orm.Session.commit() or _orm.Session.close() calls.

    Added in version 2.0.0rc1.

  • close_resets_only

    Defaults to True. Determines if the session should reset itself after calling .close() or should pass in a no longer usable state, disabling re-use.

    Added in version 2.0.22: added flag close_resets_only. A future SQLAlchemy version may change the default value of this flag to False.

    See also

    Closing - Detail on the semantics of _orm.Session.close() and _orm.Session.reset().

Methods

add

Place an object into this _orm.Session.

add_all

Add the given collection of instances to this _orm.Session.

begin

Begin a transaction, or nested transaction, on this Session, if one is not already begun.

begin_nested

Begin a "nested" transaction on this Session, e.g. SAVEPOINT.

bind_mapper

Associate a _orm.Mapper or arbitrary Python class with a "bind", e.g. an _engine.Engine or _engine.Connection.

bind_table

Associate a _schema.Table with a "bind", e.g. an _engine.Engine or _engine.Connection.

bulk_insert_mappings

Perform a bulk insert of the given list of mapping dictionaries.

bulk_save_objects

Perform a bulk save of the given list of objects.

bulk_update_mappings

Perform a bulk update of the given list of mapping dictionaries.

close

Close out the transactional resources and ORM objects used by this _orm.Session.

close_all

Close all sessions in memory.

commit

Flush pending changes and commit the current transaction.

connection

Return a _engine.Connection object corresponding to this Session object's transactional state.

delete

Mark an instance as deleted.

enable_relationship_loading

Associate an object with this Session for related object loading.

execute

Execute a SQL expression construct.

expire

Expire the attributes on an instance.

expire_all

Expires all persistent instances within this Session.

expunge

Remove the instance from this Session.

expunge_all

Remove all object instances from this Session.

flush

Flush all the object changes to the database.

get

Return an instance based on the given primary key identifier, or None if not found.

get_bind

Return a "bind" to which this Session is bound.

get_nested_transaction

Return the current nested transaction in progress, if any.

get_one

Return exactly one instance based on the given primary key identifier, or raise an exception if not found.

get_transaction

Return the current root transaction in progress, if any.

identity_key

Return an identity key.

in_nested_transaction

Return True if this _orm.Session has begun a nested transaction, e.g. SAVEPOINT.

in_transaction

Return True if this _orm.Session has begun a transaction.

invalidate

Close this Session, using connection invalidation.

is_modified

Return True if the given instance has locally modified attributes.

merge

Copy the state of a given instance into a corresponding instance within this Session.

object_session

Return the Session to which an object belongs.

prepare

Prepare the current transaction in progress for two phase commit.

query

Return a new _query.Query object corresponding to this _orm.Session.

refresh

Expire and refresh attributes on the given instance.

reset

Close out the transactional resources and ORM objects used by this _orm.Session, resetting the session to its initial state.

rollback

Rollback the current transaction in progress.

scalar

Execute a statement and return a scalar result.

scalars

Execute a statement and return the results as scalars.

upsert

Approximate insert-or-update functionality

Attributes

connection_callable

deleted

The set of all instances marked as 'deleted' within this Session

dirty

The set of all persistent instances considered dirty.

dispatch

info

A user-modifiable dictionary.

is_active

True if this Session not in "partial rollback" state.

new

The set of all instances marked as 'new' within this Session.

no_autoflush

Return a context manager that disables autoflush.

identity_map

A mapping of object identities to objects themselves.

bind

hash_key

autoflush

expire_on_commit

enable_baked_queries

twophase

join_transaction_mode

add(instance: object, _warn: bool = True) None

Place an object into this _orm.Session.

Objects that are in the transient state when passed to the _orm.Session.add() method will move to the pending state, until the next flush, at which point they will move to the persistent state.

Objects that are in the detached state when passed to the _orm.Session.add() method will move to the persistent state directly.

If the transaction used by the _orm.Session is rolled back, objects which were transient when they were passed to _orm.Session.add() will be moved back to the transient state, and will no longer be present within this _orm.Session.

See also

_orm.Session.add_all()

Adding New or Existing Items - at Basics of Using a Session

add_all(instances: Iterable[object]) None

Add the given collection of instances to this _orm.Session.

See the documentation for _orm.Session.add() for a general behavioral description.

See also

_orm.Session.add()

Adding New or Existing Items - at Basics of Using a Session

begin(nested: bool = False) SessionTransaction

Begin a transaction, or nested transaction, on this Session, if one is not already begun.

The _orm.Session object features autobegin behavior, so that normally it is not necessary to call the _orm.Session.begin() method explicitly. However, it may be used in order to control the scope of when the transactional state is begun.

When used to begin the outermost transaction, an error is raised if this Session is already inside of a transaction.

Parameters:

nested – if True, begins a SAVEPOINT transaction and is equivalent to calling begin_nested(). For documentation on SAVEPOINT transactions, please see Using SAVEPOINT.

Returns:

the SessionTransaction object. Note that SessionTransaction acts as a Python context manager, allowing Session.begin() to be used in a “with” block. See Explicit Begin for an example.

See also

Auto Begin

Managing Transactions

Session.begin_nested()

begin_nested() SessionTransaction

Begin a “nested” transaction on this Session, e.g. SAVEPOINT.

The target database(s) and associated drivers must support SQL SAVEPOINT for this method to function correctly.

For documentation on SAVEPOINT transactions, please see Using SAVEPOINT.

Returns:

the SessionTransaction object. Note that SessionTransaction acts as a context manager, allowing Session.begin_nested() to be used in a “with” block. See Using SAVEPOINT for a usage example.

See also

Using SAVEPOINT

Serializable isolation / Savepoints / Transactional DDL - special workarounds required with the SQLite driver in order for SAVEPOINT to work correctly. For asyncio use cases, see the section Serializable isolation / Savepoints / Transactional DDL (asyncio version).

bind_mapper(mapper: _EntityBindKey[_O], bind: _SessionBind) None

Associate a _orm.Mapper or arbitrary Python class with a “bind”, e.g. an _engine.Engine or _engine.Connection.

The given entity is added to a lookup used by the Session.get_bind() method.

Parameters:
  • mapper – a _orm.Mapper object, or an instance of a mapped class, or any Python class that is the base of a set of mapped classes.

  • bind – an _engine.Engine or _engine.Connection object.

bind_table(table: TableClause, bind: Engine | Connection) None

Associate a _schema.Table with a “bind”, e.g. an _engine.Engine or _engine.Connection.

The given _schema.Table is added to a lookup used by the Session.get_bind() method.

Parameters:
  • table – a _schema.Table object, which is typically the target of an ORM mapping, or is present within a selectable that is mapped.

  • bind – an _engine.Engine or _engine.Connection object.

bulk_insert_mappings(mapper: Mapper[Any], mappings: Iterable[Dict[str, Any]], return_defaults: bool = False, render_nulls: bool = False) None

Perform a bulk insert of the given list of mapping dictionaries.

Parameters:
  • mapper – a mapped class, or the actual _orm.Mapper object, representing the single kind of object represented within the mapping list.

  • mappings – a sequence of dictionaries, each one containing the state of the mapped row to be inserted, in terms of the attribute names on the mapped class. If the mapping refers to multiple tables, such as a joined-inheritance mapping, each dictionary must contain all keys to be populated into all tables.

  • return_defaults

    when True, the INSERT process will be altered to ensure that newly generated primary key values will be fetched. The rationale for this parameter is typically to enable Joined Table Inheritance mappings to be bulk inserted.

    Note

    for backends that don’t support RETURNING, the :paramref:`_orm.Session.bulk_insert_mappings.return_defaults` parameter can significantly decrease performance as INSERT statements can no longer be batched. See “Insert Many Values” Behavior for INSERT statements for background on which backends are affected.

  • render_nulls

    When True, a value of None will result in a NULL value being included in the INSERT statement, rather than the column being omitted from the INSERT. This allows all the rows being INSERTed to have the identical set of columns which allows the full set of rows to be batched to the DBAPI. Normally, each column-set that contains a different combination of NULL values than the previous row must omit a different series of columns from the rendered INSERT statement, which means it must be emitted as a separate statement. By passing this flag, the full set of rows are guaranteed to be batchable into one batch; the cost however is that server-side defaults which are invoked by an omitted column will be skipped, so care must be taken to ensure that these are not necessary.

    Warning

    When this flag is set, server side default SQL values will not be invoked for those columns that are inserted as NULL; the NULL value will be sent explicitly. Care must be taken to ensure that no server-side default functions need to be invoked for the operation as a whole.

See also

queryguide/dml

Session.bulk_save_objects()

Session.bulk_update_mappings()

bulk_save_objects(objects: Iterable[object], return_defaults: bool = False, update_changed_only: bool = True, preserve_order: bool = True) None

Perform a bulk save of the given list of objects.

Parameters:
  • objects

    a sequence of mapped object instances. The mapped objects are persisted as is, and are not associated with the Session afterwards.

    For each object, whether the object is sent as an INSERT or an UPDATE is dependent on the same rules used by the Session in traditional operation; if the object has the InstanceState.key attribute set, then the object is assumed to be “detached” and will result in an UPDATE. Otherwise, an INSERT is used.

    In the case of an UPDATE, statements are grouped based on which attributes have changed, and are thus to be the subject of each SET clause. If update_changed_only is False, then all attributes present within each object are applied to the UPDATE statement, which may help in allowing the statements to be grouped together into a larger executemany(), and will also reduce the overhead of checking history on attributes.

  • return_defaults – when True, rows that are missing values which generate defaults, namely integer primary key defaults and sequences, will be inserted one at a time, so that the primary key value is available. In particular this will allow joined-inheritance and other multi-table mappings to insert correctly without the need to provide primary key values ahead of time; however, :paramref:`.Session.bulk_save_objects.return_defaults` greatly reduces the performance gains of the method overall. It is strongly advised to please use the standard _orm.Session.add_all() approach.

  • update_changed_only – when True, UPDATE statements are rendered based on those attributes in each state that have logged changes. When False, all attributes present are rendered into the SET clause with the exception of primary key attributes.

  • preserve_order – when True, the order of inserts and updates matches exactly the order in which the objects are given. When False, common types of objects are grouped into inserts and updates, to allow for more batching opportunities.

See also

queryguide/dml

Session.bulk_insert_mappings()

Session.bulk_update_mappings()

bulk_update_mappings(mapper: Mapper[Any], mappings: Iterable[Dict[str, Any]]) None

Perform a bulk update of the given list of mapping dictionaries.

Parameters:
  • mapper – a mapped class, or the actual _orm.Mapper object, representing the single kind of object represented within the mapping list.

  • mappings – a sequence of dictionaries, each one containing the state of the mapped row to be updated, in terms of the attribute names on the mapped class. If the mapping refers to multiple tables, such as a joined-inheritance mapping, each dictionary may contain keys corresponding to all tables. All those keys which are present and are not part of the primary key are applied to the SET clause of the UPDATE statement; the primary key values, which are required, are applied to the WHERE clause.

See also

queryguide/dml

Session.bulk_insert_mappings()

Session.bulk_save_objects()

close() None

Close out the transactional resources and ORM objects used by this _orm.Session.

This expunges all ORM objects associated with this _orm.Session, ends any transaction in progress and releases any _engine.Connection objects which this _orm.Session itself has checked out from associated _engine.Engine objects. The operation then leaves the _orm.Session in a state which it may be used again.

Tip

In the default running mode the _orm.Session.close() method does not prevent the Session from being used again. The _orm.Session itself does not actually have a distinct “closed” state; it merely means the _orm.Session will release all database connections and ORM objects.

Setting the parameter :paramref:`_orm.Session.close_resets_only` to False will instead make the close final, meaning that any further action on the session will be forbidden.

Changed in version 1.4: The Session.close() method does not immediately create a new SessionTransaction object; instead, the new SessionTransaction is created only if the Session is used again for a database operation.

See also

Closing - detail on the semantics of _orm.Session.close() and _orm.Session.reset().

_orm.Session.reset() - a similar method that behaves like close() with the parameter :paramref:`_orm.Session.close_resets_only` set to True.

classmethod close_all() None

Close all sessions in memory.

Deprecated since version 1.3: The Session.close_all() method is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please refer to session.close_all_sessions().

commit() None

Flush pending changes and commit the current transaction.

When the COMMIT operation is complete, all objects are fully expired, erasing their internal contents, which will be automatically re-loaded when the objects are next accessed. In the interim, these objects are in an expired state and will not function if they are detached from the Session. Additionally, this re-load operation is not supported when using asyncio-oriented APIs. The :paramref:`.Session.expire_on_commit` parameter may be used to disable this behavior.

When there is no transaction in place for the Session, indicating that no operations were invoked on this Session since the previous call to Session.commit(), the method will begin and commit an internal-only “logical” transaction, that does not normally affect the database unless pending flush changes were detected, but will still invoke event handlers and object expiration rules.

The outermost database transaction is committed unconditionally, automatically releasing any SAVEPOINTs in effect.

connection(bind_arguments: _BindArguments | None = None, execution_options: CoreExecuteOptionsParameter | None = None) Connection

Return a _engine.Connection object corresponding to this Session object’s transactional state.

Either the _engine.Connection corresponding to the current transaction is returned, or if no transaction is in progress, a new one is begun and the _engine.Connection returned (note that no transactional state is established with the DBAPI until the first SQL statement is emitted).

Ambiguity in multi-bind or unbound Session objects can be resolved through any of the optional keyword arguments. This ultimately makes usage of the get_bind() method for resolution.

Parameters:
  • bind_arguments – dictionary of bind arguments. May include “mapper”, “bind”, “clause”, other custom arguments that are passed to Session.get_bind().

  • execution_options

    a dictionary of execution options that will be passed to _engine.Connection.execution_options(), when the connection is first procured only. If the connection is already present within the Session, a warning is emitted and the arguments are ignored.

delete(instance: object) None

Mark an instance as deleted.

The object is assumed to be either persistent or detached when passed; after the method is called, the object will remain in the persistent state until the next flush proceeds. During this time, the object will also be a member of the _orm.Session.deleted collection.

When the next flush proceeds, the object will move to the deleted state, indicating a DELETE statement was emitted for its row within the current transaction. When the transaction is successfully committed, the deleted object is moved to the detached state and is no longer present within this _orm.Session.

property deleted: IdentitySet

The set of all instances marked as ‘deleted’ within this Session

property dirty: IdentitySet

The set of all persistent instances considered dirty.

E.g.:

some_mapped_object in session.dirty

Instances are considered dirty when they were modified but not deleted.

Note that this ‘dirty’ calculation is ‘optimistic’; most attribute-setting or collection modification operations will mark an instance as ‘dirty’ and place it in this set, even if there is no net change to the attribute’s value. At flush time, the value of each attribute is compared to its previously saved value, and if there’s no net change, no SQL operation will occur (this is a more expensive operation so it’s only done at flush time).

To check if an instance has actionable net changes to its attributes, use the Session.is_modified() method.

enable_relationship_loading(obj: object) None

Associate an object with this Session for related object loading.

Warning

enable_relationship_loading() exists to serve special use cases and is not recommended for general use.

Accesses of attributes mapped with _orm.relationship() will attempt to load a value from the database using this Session as the source of connectivity. The values will be loaded based on foreign key and primary key values present on this object - if not present, then those relationships will be unavailable.

The object will be attached to this session, but will not participate in any persistence operations; its state for almost all purposes will remain either “transient” or “detached”, except for the case of relationship loading.

Also note that backrefs will often not work as expected. Altering a relationship-bound attribute on the target object may not fire off a backref event, if the effective value is what was already loaded from a foreign-key-holding value.

The Session.enable_relationship_loading() method is similar to the load_on_pending flag on _orm.relationship(). Unlike that flag, Session.enable_relationship_loading() allows an object to remain transient while still being able to load related items.

To make a transient object associated with a Session via Session.enable_relationship_loading() pending, add it to the Session using Session.add() normally. If the object instead represents an existing identity in the database, it should be merged using Session.merge().

Session.enable_relationship_loading() does not improve behavior when the ORM is used normally - object references should be constructed at the object level, not at the foreign key level, so that they are present in an ordinary way before flush() proceeds. This method is not intended for general use.

See also

:paramref:`_orm.relationship.load_on_pending` - this flag allows per-relationship loading of many-to-ones on items that are pending.

make_transient_to_detached() - allows for an object to be added to a Session without SQL emitted, which then will unexpire attributes on access.

execute(statement: Executable, params: _CoreAnyExecuteParams | None = None, *, execution_options: OrmExecuteOptionsParameter = {}, bind_arguments: _BindArguments | None = None, _parent_execute_state: Any | None = None, _add_event: Any | None = None) Result[Any]

Execute a SQL expression construct.

Returns a _engine.Result object representing results of the statement execution.

E.g.:

from sqlalchemy import select
result = session.execute(
    select(User).where(User.id == 5)
)

The API contract of _orm.Session.execute() is similar to that of _engine.Connection.execute(), the 2.0 style version of _engine.Connection.

Changed in version 1.4: the _orm.Session.execute() method is now the primary point of ORM statement execution when using 2.0 style ORM usage.

Parameters:
  • statement – An executable statement (i.e. an Executable expression such as _expression.select()).

  • params – Optional dictionary, or list of dictionaries, containing bound parameter values. If a single dictionary, single-row execution occurs; if a list of dictionaries, an “executemany” will be invoked. The keys in each dictionary must correspond to parameter names present in the statement.

  • execution_options

    optional dictionary of execution options, which will be associated with the statement execution. This dictionary can provide a subset of the options that are accepted by _engine.Connection.execution_options(), and may also provide additional options understood only in an ORM context.

    See also

    ORM Execution Options - ORM-specific execution options

  • bind_arguments – dictionary of additional arguments to determine the bind. May include “mapper”, “bind”, or other custom arguments. Contents of this dictionary are passed to the Session.get_bind() method.

Returns:

a _engine.Result object.

expire(instance: object, attribute_names: Iterable[str] | None = None) None

Expire the attributes on an instance.

Marks the attributes of an instance as out of date. When an expired attribute is next accessed, a query will be issued to the Session object’s current transactional context in order to load all expired attributes for the given instance. Note that a highly isolated transaction will return the same values as were previously read in that same transaction, regardless of changes in database state outside of that transaction.

To expire all objects in the Session simultaneously, use Session.expire_all().

The Session object’s default behavior is to expire all state whenever the Session.rollback() or Session.commit() methods are called, so that new state can be loaded for the new transaction. For this reason, calling Session.expire() only makes sense for the specific case that a non-ORM SQL statement was emitted in the current transaction.

Parameters:
  • instance – The instance to be refreshed.

  • attribute_names – optional list of string attribute names indicating a subset of attributes to be expired.

See also

Refreshing / Expiring - introductory material

Session.expire()

Session.refresh()

_orm.Query.populate_existing()

expire_all() None

Expires all persistent instances within this Session.

When any attributes on a persistent instance is next accessed, a query will be issued using the Session object’s current transactional context in order to load all expired attributes for the given instance. Note that a highly isolated transaction will return the same values as were previously read in that same transaction, regardless of changes in database state outside of that transaction.

To expire individual objects and individual attributes on those objects, use Session.expire().

The Session object’s default behavior is to expire all state whenever the Session.rollback() or Session.commit() methods are called, so that new state can be loaded for the new transaction. For this reason, calling Session.expire_all() is not usually needed, assuming the transaction is isolated.

See also

Refreshing / Expiring - introductory material

Session.expire()

Session.refresh()

_orm.Query.populate_existing()

expunge(instance: object) None

Remove the instance from this Session.

This will free all internal references to the instance. Cascading will be applied according to the expunge cascade rule.

expunge_all() None

Remove all object instances from this Session.

This is equivalent to calling expunge(obj) on all objects in this Session.

flush(objects: Sequence[Any] | None = None) None

Flush all the object changes to the database.

Writes out all pending object creations, deletions and modifications to the database as INSERTs, DELETEs, UPDATEs, etc. Operations are automatically ordered by the Session’s unit of work dependency solver.

Database operations will be issued in the current transactional context and do not affect the state of the transaction, unless an error occurs, in which case the entire transaction is rolled back. You may flush() as often as you like within a transaction to move changes from Python to the database’s transaction buffer.

Parameters:

objects

Optional; restricts the flush operation to operate only on elements that are in the given collection.

This feature is for an extremely narrow set of use cases where particular objects may need to be operated upon before the full flush() occurs. It is not intended for general use.

get(entity: _EntityBindKey[_O], ident: _PKIdentityArgument, *, options: Sequence[ORMOption] | None = None, populate_existing: bool = False, with_for_update: ForUpdateParameter = None, identity_token: Any | None = None, execution_options: OrmExecuteOptionsParameter = {}, bind_arguments: _BindArguments | None = None) _O | None

Return an instance based on the given primary key identifier, or None if not found.

E.g.:

my_user = session.get(User, 5)

some_object = session.get(VersionedFoo, (5, 10))

some_object = session.get(
    VersionedFoo,
    {"id": 5, "version_id": 10}
)

Added in version 1.4: Added _orm.Session.get(), which is moved from the now legacy _orm.Query.get() method.

_orm.Session.get() is special in that it provides direct access to the identity map of the Session. If the given primary key identifier is present in the local identity map, the object is returned directly from this collection and no SQL is emitted, unless the object has been marked fully expired. If not present, a SELECT is performed in order to locate the object.

_orm.Session.get() also will perform a check if the object is present in the identity map and marked as expired - a SELECT is emitted to refresh the object as well as to ensure that the row is still present. If not, ObjectDeletedError is raised.

Parameters:
  • entity – a mapped class or Mapper indicating the type of entity to be loaded.

  • ident

    A scalar, tuple, or dictionary representing the primary key. For a composite (e.g. multiple column) primary key, a tuple or dictionary should be passed.

    For a single-column primary key, the scalar calling form is typically the most expedient. If the primary key of a row is the value “5”, the call looks like:

    my_object = session.get(SomeClass, 5)
    

    The tuple form contains primary key values typically in the order in which they correspond to the mapped _schema.Table object’s primary key columns, or if the :paramref:`_orm.Mapper.primary_key` configuration parameter were used, in the order used for that parameter. For example, if the primary key of a row is represented by the integer digits “5, 10” the call would look like:

    my_object = session.get(SomeClass, (5, 10))
    

    The dictionary form should include as keys the mapped attribute names corresponding to each element of the primary key. If the mapped class has the attributes id, version_id as the attributes which store the object’s primary key value, the call would look like:

    my_object = session.get(SomeClass, {"id": 5, "version_id": 10})
    

  • options – optional sequence of loader options which will be applied to the query, if one is emitted.

  • populate_existing – causes the method to unconditionally emit a SQL query and refresh the object with the newly loaded data, regardless of whether or not the object is already present.

  • with_for_update – optional boolean True indicating FOR UPDATE should be used, or may be a dictionary containing flags to indicate a more specific set of FOR UPDATE flags for the SELECT; flags should match the parameters of _query.Query.with_for_update(). Supersedes the :paramref:`.Session.refresh.lockmode` parameter.

  • execution_options

    optional dictionary of execution options, which will be associated with the query execution if one is emitted. This dictionary can provide a subset of the options that are accepted by _engine.Connection.execution_options(), and may also provide additional options understood only in an ORM context.

    Added in version 1.4.29.

    See also

    ORM Execution Options - ORM-specific execution options

  • bind_arguments

    dictionary of additional arguments to determine the bind. May include “mapper”, “bind”, or other custom arguments. Contents of this dictionary are passed to the Session.get_bind() method.

Returns:

The object instance, or None.

get_bind(mapper: _EntityBindKey[_O] | None = None, *, clause: ClauseElement | None = None, bind: _SessionBind | None = None, _sa_skip_events: bool | None = None, _sa_skip_for_implicit_returning: bool = False, **kw: Any) Engine | Connection

Return a “bind” to which this Session is bound.

The “bind” is usually an instance of _engine.Engine, except in the case where the Session has been explicitly bound directly to a _engine.Connection.

For a multiply-bound or unbound Session, the mapper or clause arguments are used to determine the appropriate bind to return.

Note that the “mapper” argument is usually present when Session.get_bind() is called via an ORM operation such as a Session.query(), each individual INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operation within a Session.flush(), call, etc.

The order of resolution is:

  1. if mapper given and :paramref:`.Session.binds` is present, locate a bind based first on the mapper in use, then on the mapped class in use, then on any base classes that are present in the __mro__ of the mapped class, from more specific superclasses to more general.

  2. if clause given and Session.binds is present, locate a bind based on _schema.Table objects found in the given clause present in Session.binds.

  3. if Session.binds is present, return that.

  4. if clause given, attempt to return a bind linked to the _schema.MetaData ultimately associated with the clause.

  5. if mapper given, attempt to return a bind linked to the _schema.MetaData ultimately associated with the _schema.Table or other selectable to which the mapper is mapped.

  6. No bind can be found, UnboundExecutionError is raised.

Note that the Session.get_bind() method can be overridden on a user-defined subclass of Session to provide any kind of bind resolution scheme. See the example at Custom Vertical Partitioning.

Parameters:
  • mapper – Optional mapped class or corresponding _orm.Mapper instance. The bind can be derived from a _orm.Mapper first by consulting the “binds” map associated with this Session, and secondly by consulting the _schema.MetaData associated with the _schema.Table to which the _orm.Mapper is mapped for a bind.

  • clause – A _expression.ClauseElement (i.e. _expression.select(), _expression.text(), etc.). If the mapper argument is not present or could not produce a bind, the given expression construct will be searched for a bound element, typically a _schema.Table associated with bound _schema.MetaData.

get_nested_transaction() SessionTransaction | None

Return the current nested transaction in progress, if any.

Added in version 1.4.

get_one(entity: _EntityBindKey[_O], ident: _PKIdentityArgument, *, options: Sequence[ORMOption] | None = None, populate_existing: bool = False, with_for_update: ForUpdateParameter = None, identity_token: Any | None = None, execution_options: OrmExecuteOptionsParameter = {}, bind_arguments: _BindArguments | None = None) _O

Return exactly one instance based on the given primary key identifier, or raise an exception if not found.

Raises sqlalchemy.orm.exc.NoResultFound if the query selects no rows.

For a detailed documentation of the arguments see the method Session.get().

Added in version 2.0.22.

Returns:

The object instance.

See also

Session.get() - equivalent method that instead

returns None if no row was found with the provided primary key

get_transaction() SessionTransaction | None

Return the current root transaction in progress, if any.

Added in version 1.4.

classmethod identity_key(class_: Type[Any] | None = None, ident: Any | Tuple[Any, ...] = None, *, instance: Any | None = None, row: Row[Any] | RowMapping | None = None, identity_token: Any | None = None) _IdentityKeyType[Any]

Return an identity key.

This is an alias of util.identity_key().

identity_map: IdentityMap

A mapping of object identities to objects themselves.

Iterating through Session.identity_map.values() provides access to the full set of persistent objects (i.e., those that have row identity) currently in the session.

See also

identity_key() - helper function to produce the keys used in this dictionary.

in_nested_transaction() bool

Return True if this _orm.Session has begun a nested transaction, e.g. SAVEPOINT.

Added in version 1.4.

in_transaction() bool

Return True if this _orm.Session has begun a transaction.

Added in version 1.4.

See also

_orm.Session.is_active

info

A user-modifiable dictionary.

The initial value of this dictionary can be populated using the info argument to the Session constructor or sessionmaker constructor or factory methods. The dictionary here is always local to this Session and can be modified independently of all other Session objects.

invalidate() None

Close this Session, using connection invalidation.

This is a variant of Session.close() that will additionally ensure that the _engine.Connection.invalidate() method will be called on each _engine.Connection object that is currently in use for a transaction (typically there is only one connection unless the _orm.Session is used with multiple engines).

This can be called when the database is known to be in a state where the connections are no longer safe to be used.

Below illustrates a scenario when using gevent, which can produce Timeout exceptions that may mean the underlying connection should be discarded:

import gevent

try:
    sess = Session()
    sess.add(User())
    sess.commit()
except gevent.Timeout:
    sess.invalidate()
    raise
except:
    sess.rollback()
    raise

The method additionally does everything that _orm.Session.close() does, including that all ORM objects are expunged.

property is_active: bool

True if this Session not in “partial rollback” state.

Changed in version 1.4: The _orm.Session no longer begins a new transaction immediately, so this attribute will be False when the _orm.Session is first instantiated.

“partial rollback” state typically indicates that the flush process of the _orm.Session has failed, and that the _orm.Session.rollback() method must be emitted in order to fully roll back the transaction.

If this _orm.Session is not in a transaction at all, the _orm.Session will autobegin when it is first used, so in this case _orm.Session.is_active will return True.

Otherwise, if this _orm.Session is within a transaction, and that transaction has not been rolled back internally, the _orm.Session.is_active will also return True.

is_modified(instance: object, include_collections: bool = True) bool

Return True if the given instance has locally modified attributes.

This method retrieves the history for each instrumented attribute on the instance and performs a comparison of the current value to its previously committed value, if any.

It is in effect a more expensive and accurate version of checking for the given instance in the Session.dirty collection; a full test for each attribute’s net “dirty” status is performed.

E.g.:

return session.is_modified(someobject)

A few caveats to this method apply:

  • Instances present in the Session.dirty collection may report False when tested with this method. This is because the object may have received change events via attribute mutation, thus placing it in Session.dirty, but ultimately the state is the same as that loaded from the database, resulting in no net change here.

  • Scalar attributes may not have recorded the previously set value when a new value was applied, if the attribute was not loaded, or was expired, at the time the new value was received - in these cases, the attribute is assumed to have a change, even if there is ultimately no net change against its database value. SQLAlchemy in most cases does not need the “old” value when a set event occurs, so it skips the expense of a SQL call if the old value isn’t present, based on the assumption that an UPDATE of the scalar value is usually needed, and in those few cases where it isn’t, is less expensive on average than issuing a defensive SELECT.

    The “old” value is fetched unconditionally upon set only if the attribute container has the active_history flag set to True. This flag is set typically for primary key attributes and scalar object references that are not a simple many-to-one. To set this flag for any arbitrary mapped column, use the active_history argument with column_property().

Parameters:
  • instance – mapped instance to be tested for pending changes.

  • include_collections – Indicates if multivalued collections should be included in the operation. Setting this to False is a way to detect only local-column based properties (i.e. scalar columns or many-to-one foreign keys) that would result in an UPDATE for this instance upon flush.

merge(instance: _O, *, load: bool = True, options: Sequence[ORMOption] | None = None) _O

Copy the state of a given instance into a corresponding instance within this Session.

Session.merge() examines the primary key attributes of the source instance, and attempts to reconcile it with an instance of the same primary key in the session. If not found locally, it attempts to load the object from the database based on primary key, and if none can be located, creates a new instance. The state of each attribute on the source instance is then copied to the target instance. The resulting target instance is then returned by the method; the original source instance is left unmodified, and un-associated with the Session if not already.

This operation cascades to associated instances if the association is mapped with cascade="merge".

See Merging for a detailed discussion of merging.

Parameters:
  • instance – Instance to be merged.

  • load

    Boolean, when False, merge() switches into a “high performance” mode which causes it to forego emitting history events as well as all database access. This flag is used for cases such as transferring graphs of objects into a Session from a second level cache, or to transfer just-loaded objects into the Session owned by a worker thread or process without re-querying the database.

    The load=False use case adds the caveat that the given object has to be in a “clean” state, that is, has no pending changes to be flushed - even if the incoming object is detached from any Session. This is so that when the merge operation populates local attributes and cascades to related objects and collections, the values can be “stamped” onto the target object as is, without generating any history or attribute events, and without the need to reconcile the incoming data with any existing related objects or collections that might not be loaded. The resulting objects from load=False are always produced as “clean”, so it is only appropriate that the given objects should be “clean” as well, else this suggests a mis-use of the method.

  • options

    optional sequence of loader options which will be applied to the _orm.Session.get() method when the merge operation loads the existing version of the object from the database.

    Added in version 1.4.24.

See also

make_transient_to_detached() - provides for an alternative means of “merging” a single object into the Session

property new: IdentitySet

The set of all instances marked as ‘new’ within this Session.

no_autoflush

Return a context manager that disables autoflush.

e.g.:

with session.no_autoflush:

    some_object = SomeClass()
    session.add(some_object)
    # won't autoflush
    some_object.related_thing = session.query(SomeRelated).first()

Operations that proceed within the with: block will not be subject to flushes occurring upon query access. This is useful when initializing a series of objects which involve existing database queries, where the uncompleted object should not yet be flushed.

classmethod object_session(instance: object) Session | None

Return the Session to which an object belongs.

This is an alias of object_session().

prepare() None

Prepare the current transaction in progress for two phase commit.

If no transaction is in progress, this method raises an InvalidRequestError.

Only root transactions of two phase sessions can be prepared. If the current transaction is not such, an InvalidRequestError is raised.

query(*entities: _ColumnsClauseArgument[Any], **kwargs: Any) Query[Any]

Return a new _query.Query object corresponding to this _orm.Session.

Note that the _query.Query object is legacy as of SQLAlchemy 2.0; the _sql.select() construct is now used to construct ORM queries.

refresh(instance: object, attribute_names: Iterable[str] | None = None, with_for_update: ForUpdateParameter = None) None

Expire and refresh attributes on the given instance.

The selected attributes will first be expired as they would when using _orm.Session.expire(); then a SELECT statement will be issued to the database to refresh column-oriented attributes with the current value available in the current transaction.

_orm.relationship() oriented attributes will also be immediately loaded if they were already eagerly loaded on the object, using the same eager loading strategy that they were loaded with originally.

Added in version 1.4: - the _orm.Session.refresh() method can also refresh eagerly loaded attributes.

_orm.relationship() oriented attributes that would normally load using the select (or “lazy”) loader strategy will also load if they are named explicitly in the attribute_names collection, emitting a SELECT statement for the attribute using the immediate loader strategy. If lazy-loaded relationships are not named in :paramref:`_orm.Session.refresh.attribute_names`, then they remain as “lazy loaded” attributes and are not implicitly refreshed.

Changed in version 2.0.4: The _orm.Session.refresh() method will now refresh lazy-loaded _orm.relationship() oriented attributes for those which are named explicitly in the :paramref:`_orm.Session.refresh.attribute_names` collection.

Tip

While the _orm.Session.refresh() method is capable of refreshing both column and relationship oriented attributes, its primary focus is on refreshing of local column-oriented attributes on a single instance. For more open ended “refresh” functionality, including the ability to refresh the attributes on many objects at once while having explicit control over relationship loader strategies, use the populate existing feature instead.

Note that a highly isolated transaction will return the same values as were previously read in that same transaction, regardless of changes in database state outside of that transaction. Refreshing attributes usually only makes sense at the start of a transaction where database rows have not yet been accessed.

Parameters:
  • attribute_names – optional. An iterable collection of string attribute names indicating a subset of attributes to be refreshed.

  • with_for_update – optional boolean True indicating FOR UPDATE should be used, or may be a dictionary containing flags to indicate a more specific set of FOR UPDATE flags for the SELECT; flags should match the parameters of _query.Query.with_for_update(). Supersedes the :paramref:`.Session.refresh.lockmode` parameter.

See also

Refreshing / Expiring - introductory material

Session.expire()

Session.expire_all()

Populate Existing - allows any ORM query to refresh objects as they would be loaded normally.

reset() None

Close out the transactional resources and ORM objects used by this _orm.Session, resetting the session to its initial state.

This method provides for same “reset-only” behavior that the _orm.Session.close() method has provided historically, where the state of the _orm.Session is reset as though the object were brand new, and ready to be used again. This method may then be useful for _orm.Session objects which set :paramref:`_orm.Session.close_resets_only` to False, so that “reset only” behavior is still available.

Added in version 2.0.22.

See also

Closing - detail on the semantics of _orm.Session.close() and _orm.Session.reset().

_orm.Session.close() - a similar method will additionally prevent re-use of the Session when the parameter :paramref:`_orm.Session.close_resets_only` is set to False.

rollback() None

Rollback the current transaction in progress.

If no transaction is in progress, this method is a pass-through.

The method always rolls back the topmost database transaction, discarding any nested transactions that may be in progress.

scalar(statement: Executable, params: _CoreSingleExecuteParams | None = None, *, execution_options: OrmExecuteOptionsParameter = {}, bind_arguments: _BindArguments | None = None, **kw: Any) Any

Execute a statement and return a scalar result.

Usage and parameters are the same as that of _orm.Session.execute(); the return result is a scalar Python value.

scalars(statement: Executable, params: _CoreAnyExecuteParams | None = None, *, execution_options: OrmExecuteOptionsParameter = {}, bind_arguments: _BindArguments | None = None, **kw: Any) ScalarResult[Any]

Execute a statement and return the results as scalars.

Usage and parameters are the same as that of _orm.Session.execute(); the return result is a _result.ScalarResult filtering object which will return single elements rather than _row.Row objects.

Returns:

a _result.ScalarResult object

Added in version 1.4.24: Added _orm.Session.scalars()

Added in version 1.4.26: Added _orm.scoped_session.scalars()

See also

Selecting ORM Entities - contrasts the behavior of _orm.Session.execute() to _orm.Session.scalars()

upsert(obj: Object) Object

Approximate insert-or-update functionality

If the given object is not in the session, it is merged in, loading and updating the object that shares its type and primary key if any, or creating a completely new object if one of its type with its primary key did not already exist. Objects passed in that were already in the session are not touched,, as modifications to those objects will be persisted on next commit regardless.

Parameters:

obj (Object) – The model object to be added/updated

Returns:

The created/modified object. Note that in the event of a merge, this is not the same object that was passed in.

Return type:

Object