SQLAlchemy: get relationships from a db.Model

Question

I need to get a list of a model\'s properties which are actually relationships (that is, they were created by relationship()).

Say I have a model

Answer 1

There is indeed - take a look at sqlalchemy.inspection.inspect. Calling inspect on a mapped class (for example, your Thing class) will return a Mapper, which has a relationships attribute that is dict like:

from sqlalchemy.inspection import inspect

thing_relations = inspect(Thing).relationships.items()