SQLAlchemy update if unique key exists

Question

I've got a class:

class Tag(Base, TimestampMixin):
    """Tags"""
    __tablename__ = 'tags'
    __table_args__ = {'mysql_engine' : 'InnoDB', 'mysql_charset' : 'utf8' }

    id = Column(Integer(11), autoincrement = True, primary_key = True)
    tag = Column(String(32), nullable = False, unique = True)
    cnt = Column(Integer(11), index = True, nullable = False, default = 1)

    def __init__(self, tag):
        t = session.query(Tag).filter_by(tag=tag).first()
        if t:
            self.cnt = t.cnt+1
            self.tag = t.tag
        else:
            self.tag = tag

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<Tag('%s')>" % (self.tag, )

    def __unicode__(self):
        return "%s" % (self.tag, )

When adding tag:

tag = Tag('tag')
session.add(tag)
session.commit()

I want it to update existing tag.

Of course, I could've done this:

tag = session.query(Tag).filter_by(tag='tag').first()
if tag:
    tag.cnt++
else:
    tag = Tag('tag')
session.add(tag)
session.commit()

but, keeping such logic in Tag class seems to be more clear - possibly keeps me off of the shotgun surgery.

How do I get there? I'm pretty new to Python and SQLAlchemy, so any additional thoughts on my code will be appreciated.

Thank you.

P.S. SQLAlchemy is SO GIGANTIC and they don't provide a handy way to do INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, huh? WOW!

Answer 1

You can try this

def get_or_increase_tag(tag_name):
    tag = session.query(Tag).filter_by(tag=tag_name).first()
    if not tag:
       tag = Tag(tag_name)
    else:
       tag.cnt += 1
    return tag

You can check the link https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Insert+on+duplicate+update+sqlalchemy