SQLAlchemy ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE

Question

Is there an elegant way to do an INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE in SQLAlchemy? I mean something with a syntax similar to inserter.insert().execute(lis

Answer 1

The other answers have this covered but figured I'd reference another good example for mysql I found in this gist. This also includes the use of LAST_INSERT_ID, which may be useful depending on your innodb auto increment settings and whether your table has a unique key. Lifting the code here for easy reference but please give the author a star if you find it useful.

from app import db
from sqlalchemy import func
from sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql import insert

def upsert(model, insert_dict):
    """model can be a db.Model or a table(), insert_dict should contain a primary or unique key."""
    inserted = insert(model).values(**insert_dict)
    upserted = inserted.on_duplicate_key_update(
        id=func.LAST_INSERT_ID(model.id), **{k: inserted.inserted[k]
                               for k, v in insert_dict.items()})
    res = db.engine.execute(upserted)
    return res.lastrowid