AttributeError while querying: Neither 'InstrumentedAttribute' object nor 'Comparator' has an attribute

Question

The following code:

Base = declarative_base()
engine = create_engine(r\"sqlite:///\" + r\"d:\\foo.db\",
                       listeners=[ForeignKeysListener()])         


        

Answer 1

This is because you are trying to access bar from the FooBar class rather than a FooBar instance. The FooBar class does not have any bar objects associated with it--bar is just an sqlalchemy InstrumentedAttribute. This is why you get the error:

AttributeError: Neither 'InstrumentedAttribute' object nor 'Comparator' object associated with FooBar.bar has an attribute 'foo'

You will get the same error by typing FooBar.bar.foo.name outside the sqlalchemy query.

The solution is to call the Foo class directly:

ses.query(FooBar).join(Bar).join(Foo).filter(Foo.name == "blah")