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Operation Directives
=====================
.. note:: this section discusses the **internal API of Alembic** as regards
the internal system of defining migration operation directives.
This section is only useful for developers who wish to extend the
capabilities of Alembic. For end-user guidance on Alembic migration
operations, please see :ref:`ops`.
Within migration scripts, actual database migration operations are handled
via an instance of :class:`.Operations`. The :class:`.Operations` class
lists out available migration operations that are linked to a
:class:`.MigrationContext`, which communicates instructions originated
by the :class:`.Operations` object into SQL that is sent to a database or SQL
output stream.
Most methods on the :class:`.Operations` class are generated dynamically
using a "plugin" system, described in the next section
:ref:`operation_plugins`. Additionally, when Alembic migration scripts
actually run, the methods on the current :class:`.Operations` object are
proxied out to the ``alembic.op`` module, so that they are available
using module-style access.
For an overview of how to use an :class:`.Operations` object directly
in programs, as well as for reference to the standard operation methods
as well as "batch" methods, see :ref:`ops`.
.. _operation_plugins:
Operation Plugins
=====================
The Operations object is extensible using a plugin system. This system
allows one to add new ``op.<some_operation>`` methods at runtime. The
steps to use this system are to first create a subclass of
:class:`.MigrateOperation`, register it using the :meth:`.Operations.register_operation`
class decorator, then build a default "implementation" function which is
established using the :meth:`.Operations.implementation_for` decorator.
.. versionadded:: 0.8.0 - the :class:`.Operations` class is now an
open namespace that is extensible via the creation of new
:class:`.MigrateOperation` subclasses.
Below we illustrate a very simple operation ``CreateSequenceOp`` which
will implement a new method ``op.create_sequence()`` for use in
migration scripts::
from alembic.operations import Operations, MigrateOperation
@Operations.register_operation("create_sequence")
class CreateSequenceOp(MigrateOperation):
"""Create a SEQUENCE."""
def __init__(self, sequence_name, schema=None):
self.sequence_name = sequence_name
self.schema = schema
@classmethod
def create_sequence(cls, operations, sequence_name, **kw):
"""Issue a "CREATE SEQUENCE" instruction."""
op = CreateSequenceOp(sequence_name, **kw)
return operations.invoke(op)
def reverse(self):
# only needed to support autogenerate
return DropSequenceOp(self.sequence_name, schema=self.schema)
@Operations.register_operation("drop_sequence")
class DropSequenceOp(MigrateOperation):
"""Drop a SEQUENCE."""
def __init__(self, sequence_name, schema=None):
self.sequence_name = sequence_name
self.schema = schema
@classmethod
def drop_sequence(cls, operations, sequence_name, **kw):
"""Issue a "DROP SEQUENCE" instruction."""
op = DropSequenceOp(sequence_name, **kw)
return operations.invoke(op)
def reverse(self):
# only needed to support autogenerate
return CreateSequenceOp(self.sequence_name, schema=self.schema)
Above, the ``CreateSequenceOp`` and ``DropSequenceOp`` classes represent
new operations that will
be available as ``op.create_sequence()`` and ``op.drop_sequence()``.
The reason the operations
are represented as stateful classes is so that an operation and a specific
set of arguments can be represented generically; the state can then correspond
to different kinds of operations, such as invoking the instruction against
a database, or autogenerating Python code for the operation into a
script.
In order to establish the migrate-script behavior of the new operations,
we use the :meth:`.Operations.implementation_for` decorator::
@Operations.implementation_for(CreateSequenceOp)
def create_sequence(operations, operation):
if operation.schema is not None:
name = "%s.%s" % (operation.schema, operation.sequence_name)
else:
name = operation.sequence_name
operations.execute("CREATE SEQUENCE %s" % name)
@Operations.implementation_for(DropSequenceOp)
def drop_sequence(operations, operation):
if operation.schema is not None:
name = "%s.%s" % (operation.schema, operation.sequence_name)
else:
name = operation.sequence_name
operations.execute("DROP SEQUENCE %s" % name)
Above, we use the simplest possible technique of invoking our DDL, which
is just to call :meth:`.Operations.execute` with literal SQL. If this is
all a custom operation needs, then this is fine. However, options for
more comprehensive support include building out a custom SQL construct,
as documented at :ref:`sqlalchemy.ext.compiler_toplevel`.
With the above two steps, a migration script can now use new methods
``op.create_sequence()`` and ``op.drop_sequence()`` that will proxy to
our object as a classmethod::
def upgrade():
op.create_sequence("my_sequence")
def downgrade():
op.drop_sequence("my_sequence")
The registration of new operations only needs to occur in time for the
``env.py`` script to invoke :meth:`.MigrationContext.run_migrations`;
within the module level of the ``env.py`` script is sufficient.
.. seealso::
:ref:`autogen_custom_ops` - how to add autogenerate support to
custom operations.
.. versionadded:: 0.8 - the migration operations available via the
:class:`.Operations` class as well as the ``alembic.op`` namespace
is now extensible using a plugin system.
.. _operation_objects:
Built-in Operation Objects
==============================
The migration operations present on :class:`.Operations` are themselves
delivered via operation objects that represent an operation and its
arguments. All operations descend from the :class:`.MigrateOperation`
class, and are registered with the :class:`.Operations` class using
the :meth:`.Operations.register_operation` class decorator. The
:class:`.MigrateOperation` objects also serve as the basis for how the
autogenerate system renders new migration scripts.
.. seealso::
:ref:`operation_plugins`
:ref:`customizing_revision`
The built-in operation objects are listed below.
.. _alembic.operations.ops.toplevel:
.. automodule:: alembic.operations.ops
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