# SQLAlchemy 0.5.5 Documentation

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Version: 0.5.5 Last Updated: 07/13/2009 15:02:35

# Utilities

`sqlalchemy.orm.util.``identity_key`(*args, **kwargs)

  Get an identity key.

  Valid call signatures:

  - `identity_key(class, ident)`

    class

      mapped class (must be a positional argument)

    ident

      primary key, if the key is composite this is a tuple

  - `identity_key(instance=instance)`

    instance

      object instance (must be given as a keyword arg)

  - `identity_key(class, row=row)`

    class

      mapped class (must be a positional argument)

    row

      result proxy row (must be given as a keyword arg)

class `sqlalchemy.orm.util.``Validator`(key, validator)

  Runs a validation method on an attribute value to be set or appended.

  The Validator class is used by the `validates()` decorator, and direct access is usually not needed.

  `__init__`(key, validator)

    Construct a new Validator.

    key - name of the attribute to be validated; will be passed as the second argument to the validation method (the first is the object instance itself).

    validator - an function or instance method which accepts three arguments; an instance (usually just ‘self’ for a method), the key name of the attribute, and the value. The function should return the same value given, unless it wishes to modify it.

  `append`(state, value, initiator)
  `set`(state, value, oldvalue, initiator)

`sqlalchemy.orm.util.``with_parent`(instance, prop)

  Return criterion which selects instances with a given parent.

  instance
    a parent instance, which should be persistent or detached.
  property
    a class-attached descriptor, MapperProperty or string property name attached to the parent instance.
  **kwargs
    all extra keyword arguments are propagated to the constructor of Query.

`sqlalchemy.orm.util.``polymorphic_union`(table_map, typecolname, aliasname='p_union')

  Create a `UNION` statement used by a polymorphic mapper.

  See Concrete Table Inheritance for an example of how this is used.