Python SQLAlchemy：按关系中的关系字段排序

在我正在开发的金字塔应用程序中，我有以下场景：

class Widget(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'widgets'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column(String(50))
    sidebar = Column(mysql.TINYINT(2))

    def __init__(self, name, sidebar):
        self.name = name
        self.sidebar = sidebar

class Dashboard(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'dashboard'
    user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('users.id'), primary_key=True)
    widget_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('widgets.id'), primary_key=True)
    delta = Column(mysql.TINYINT)

    widget = relationship('Widget')

    def __init__(self, user_id, widget_id, delta):
        self.user_id = user_id
        self.widget_id = widget_id
        self.delta = delta 

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'users'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    login = Column(Unicode(255), unique=True)
    password = Column(Unicode(60))
    fullname = Column(Unicode(100))

    dashboard = relationship('Dashboard', order_by='Dashboard.widget.sidebar, Dashboard.delta')

    def __init__(self, login, password, fullname):
        self.login = login
        self.password = crypt.encode(password)
        self.fullname = fullname

因此，我希望用户“dashboard”关系具有用户的仪表板记录，但按dashboard的关系属性“sidebar”排序。目前我遇到以下错误：

sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: Property 'widget' is not an instance of ColumnProperty (i.e. does not correspond directly to a Column).

在关系声明中可以进行这种排序吗

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谢谢

这样，试着想想当SQLAlchemy尝试加载User.dashboard时应该发出什么样的SQLAlchemy。像从仪表板连接小部件中选择*。。。按widget.sidebar订购？或者从仪表板顺序中选择*通过从小部件中选择侧栏？按不同的表对结果进行排序对于关系来说太过开放，无法自行决定。实现这一点的方法是，当ORM针对仪表板的表发出简单的SELECT时，以及当ORM在一个不太简单的SELECT中引用它时，在仪表板中提供一个列表达式，该表达式可以提供这种排序，其中ORM可以一次跨用户、仪表板表连接，例如，即时加载

我们提供自定义SQL表达式，特别是那些涉及其他表的SQL表达式，当我们不希望在默认情况下加载该表达式时，可以使用，也可以使用。例如：

from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import *
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base


Base = declarative_base()

class Widget(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'widgets'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column(String(50))
    sidebar = Column(Integer)

class Dashboard(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'dashboard'
    user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('users.id'), primary_key=True)
    widget_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('widgets.id'), primary_key=True)
    delta = Column(Integer)

    widget = relationship('Widget')

    widget_sidebar = deferred(select([Widget.sidebar]).where(Widget.id == widget_id))

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'users'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    login = Column(Unicode(255), unique=True)

    dashboard = relationship('Dashboard', order_by='Dashboard.widget_sidebar, Dashboard.delta')


e = create_engine("sqlite://", echo=True)
Base.metadata.create_all(e)

s = Session(e)

w1, w2 = Widget(name='w1', sidebar=1), Widget(name='w2', sidebar=2)
s.add_all([
    User(login='u1', dashboard=[
        Dashboard(
            delta=1, widget=w1
        ),
        Dashboard(
            delta=2, widget=w2
        )
    ]),
])
s.commit()

print s.query(User).first().dashboard

加载.dashboard发出的最终SQL是：

SELECT dashboard.user_id AS dashboard_user_id, dashboard.widget_id AS dashboard_widget_id, dashboard.delta AS dashboard_delta 
FROM dashboard 
WHERE ? = dashboard.user_id ORDER BY (SELECT widgets.sidebar 
FROM widgets 
WHERE widgets.id = dashboard.widget_id), dashboard.delta

请记住，MySQL在优化上述子查询方面做得很糟糕。如果在这里需要高性能，可以考虑将侧栏的值复制到仪表板中，即使这使得一致性更难维护。