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authorMike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>2017-05-22 14:08:55 -0400
committerMike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>2017-05-22 15:51:07 -0400
commit9f0fb6c601829cb7c9f449d57e12e8b95dab51f5 (patch)
tree1201e89aa89fac39316ccfa87567a88b9667fa4c /lib/sqlalchemy/exc.py
parentda1bc9878b71f6f7b87e2fa7895e1631ae581609 (diff)
downloadsqlalchemy-9f0fb6c601829cb7c9f449d57e12e8b95dab51f5.tar.gz
Allow metadata.reflect() to recover from unreflectable tables
Added support for views that are unreflectable due to stale table definitions, when calling :meth:`.MetaData.reflect`; a warning is emitted for the table that cannot respond to ``DESCRIBE`` but the operation succeeds. The MySQL dialect now raises UnreflectableTableError which is in turn caught by MetaData.reflect(). Reflecting the view standalone raises this error directly. Change-Id: Id8005219d8e073c154cc84a873df911b4a6cf4d6 Fixes: #3871
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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/exc.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/exc.py
index e8ba34ba4..3db3c1085 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/exc.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/exc.py
@@ -199,6 +199,14 @@ class NoSuchTableError(InvalidRequestError):
"""Table does not exist or is not visible to a connection."""
+class UnreflectableTableError(InvalidRequestError):
+ """Table exists but can't be reflectted for some reason.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 1.2
+
+ """
+
+
class UnboundExecutionError(InvalidRequestError):
"""SQL was attempted without a database connection to execute it on."""