Example using BLOB in SQLAlchemy - sqlalchemy

Question

Does anybody have example on how to use BLOB in SQLAlchemy?

Answer 1

from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import mapper, sessionmaker
import os
engine = create_engine('sqlite://', echo=True)
metadata = MetaData(engine)
sample = Table(
'sample', metadata,
Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True),
Column('lob', Binary),
)
class Sample(object):
def __init__(self, lob):
self.lob = lob
mapper(Sample, sample)
metadata.create_all()
session = sessionmaker(engine)()
# Creating new object
blob = os.urandom(100000)
obj = Sample(lob=blob)
session.add(obj)
session.commit()
obj_id = obj.id
session.expunge_all()
# Retrieving existing object
obj = session.query(Sample).get(obj_id)
assert obj.lob==blob

Answer 2

from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from struct import *
_DeclarativeBase = declarative_base()
class MyTable(_DeclarativeBase):
__tablename__ = 'mytable'
id = Column(Integer, Sequence('my_table_id_seq'), primary_key=True)
my_blob = Column(BLOB)
DB_NAME = 'sqlite:///C:/BlobbingTest.db'
db = create_engine(DB_NAME)
#self.__db.echo = True
_DeclarativeBase.metadata.create_all(db)
Session = sessionmaker(bind=db)
session = Session()
session.add(MyTable(my_blob=pack('H', 365)))
l = [n + 1 for n in xrange(10)]
session.add(MyTable(my_blob=pack('H'*len(l), *l)))
session.commit()
query = session.query(MyTable)
for mt in query.all():
print unpack('H'*(len(mt.my_blob)/2), mt.my_blob)

Answer 3

Why don't you use LargeBinary?
Extract from: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/type_basics.html#sqlalchemy.types.LargeBinary
class sqlalchemy.types.LargeBinary(length=None)
A type for large binary byte data.
The LargeBinary type corresponds to a large and/or unlengthed binary type for the target platform, such as BLOB on MySQL and BYTEA for PostgreSQL. It also handles the necessary conversions for the DBAPI.
I believe this might assist you.

Answer 4

From the documentation BINARY seems the way to go: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/dialects/mysql.html
class sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.BLOB(length=None) Bases:
sqlalchemy.types.LargeBinary
The SQL BLOB type.
__init__(length=None) Construct a LargeBinary type.
Parameters: length – optional, a length for the column for use in DDL
statements, for those BLOB types that accept a length (i.e. MySQL). It
does not produce a lengthed BINARY/VARBINARY type - use the
BINARY/VARBINARY types specifically for those. May be safely omitted
if no CREATE TABLE will be issued. Certain databases may require a
length for use in DDL, and will raise an exception when the CREATE
TABLE DDL is issued.