sqlalchemy-easy-softdelete

SQLAlchemy Easy Soft-Delete

Easily add soft-deletion to your SQLAlchemy Models and automatically filter out soft-deleted objects from your queries and relationships.

This package can generate a tailor-made SQLAlchemy Mixin that can be added to your SQLAlchemy Models, making them contain a field that, when set, will mark the entity as being soft-deleted.

The library also installs a hook which dynamically rewrites all selects which are sent to the database for all tables that implement the soft-delete mixin, providing a seamless experience in both manual queries and model relationship accesses.

Mixin generation is fully customizable and you can choose the field name, its type, and the presence of (soft-)delete/undelete methods.

The default implementation will generate a deleted_at field in your models, of type DateTime(timezone=True), and will also provide a .delete(v: Optional = datetime.utcnow()) and .undelete() methods.

Installation:

pip install sqlalchemy-easy-softdelete

How to use:

from sqlalchemy_easy_softdelete.mixin import generate_soft_delete_mixin_class
from sqlalchemy_easy_softdelete.hook import IgnoredTable
from sqlalchemy.orm import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer
from datetime import datetime

# Create a Class that inherits from our class builder
class SoftDeleteMixin(generate_soft_delete_mixin_class(
    # This table will be ignored by the hook
    # even if the table has the soft-delete column
    ignored_tables=[IgnoredTable(table_schema="public", name="cars"),]
)):
    # type hint for autocomplete IDE support
    deleted_at: datetime

# Apply the mixin to your Models
Base = declarative_base()

class Fruit(Base, SoftDeleteMixin):
    __tablename__ = "fruit"
    id = Column(Integer)

Example Usage:

all_active_fruits = session.query(Fruit).all()

This will generate a query with an automatic WHERE fruit.deleted_at IS NULL condition added to it.

all_fruits = session.query(Fruit).execution_options(include_deleted=True).all()

Setting include_deleted=True (attribute name can be customized) in the query disables soft delete for that query.

License

• BSD-3-Clause