AttributeError while querying: Neither 'InstrumentedAttribute' object nor 'Comparator' has an attribute

Bleeding Fingers picture Bleeding Fingers · May 16, 2013 · Viewed 38.9k times · Source

The following code:

Base = declarative_base()
engine = create_engine(r"sqlite:///" + r"d:\foo.db",
                       listeners=[ForeignKeysListener()])
Session = sessionmaker(bind = engine)
ses = Session()

class Foo(Base):
    __tablename__ = "foo"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column(String, unique = True)

class Bar(Base):
    __tablename__ = "bar"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key = True)
    foo_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("foo.id"))

    foo = relationship("Foo")


class FooBar(Base):
    __tablename__ = "foobar"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key = True)
    bar_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("bar.id"))

    bar = relationship("Bar")



Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
ses.query(FooBar).filter(FooBar.bar.foo.name == "blah")

is giving me this error:

AttributeError: Neither 'InstrumentedAttribute' object nor 'Comparator' object associated with FooBar.bar has an attribute 'foo'

Any explanations, as to why this is happening, and guidance to how such a thing could be achieved?

Answer

ostrokach picture ostrokach · Jul 15, 2014

This is because you are trying to access bar from the FooBar class rather than a FooBar instance. The FooBar class does not have any bar objects associated with it--bar is just an sqlalchemy InstrumentedAttribute. This is why you get the error:

AttributeError: Neither 'InstrumentedAttribute' object nor 'Comparator' object associated with FooBar.bar has an attribute 'foo'

You will get the same error by typing FooBar.bar.foo.name outside the sqlalchemy query.

The solution is to call the Foo class directly:

ses.query(FooBar).join(Bar).join(Foo).filter(Foo.name == "blah")