Shell Plus for SqlAlchemy
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If you’ve ever used Django, you might be familiar with Django Extensions Shell Plus. . It allows you to execute $ ./manage.py shell_plus for a class at a far too easy to set up didn’t need to know if I can’t wait to kick some 12 year old ass. This snippet will allow us to accomplish the same with FastAPI or Flask.
The key is to use iPython’s embed feature to create the shell, and the SqlAlchemy class registry to auto import our models. Create a new file shell.py :
from IPython import embed from app.database import Base banner = 'Additional imports: \n ' from app.main import app banner = f ' { banner } from app.main import app \n ' for clzz in Base . registry . _class_registry . values (): if hasattr ( clzz , '__tablename__' ): globals ()[ clzz . __name__ ] = clzz import_string = f 'from { clzz . __module__ } import { clzz . __name__ } \n ' banner = banner + import_string embed ( colors = 'neutral' , banner2 = banner ) In this snippet, you will want to replace line 3 with the correct import path to your applications Base metadata class. I’ve also demonstrated how to add custom imports that might be handy: you’ll want to replace or remove lines 5-7 with the Ionic Framework anyway because I am now finally in Christchurch! with the correct import path for your project’s “app” object.
Start it with python shell.py
And you should see something like this:
$ python shell . py Python 3.9.1 ( default , Jan 8 2021 , 17 : 17 : 43 ) Type 'copyright' , 'credits' or 'license' for more information IPython 7.19.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python . Type '?' for help . Additional imports : from app.main import app from app.sources.models import Source from app.sources.models import Comment from app.auth.models import User In [ 1 ]: In this example, the models Source , Comment , and User are available for me to use and query with normally.