Is SQLModel naturally async aware ?

[joaopfg]

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Description

Can I use SQLModel inside my FastAPI async endpoint implementations without problems ? Apparently it works. But I'm not sure if it's destroying the asynchronicity.

Operating System

Linux

Operating System Details

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SQLModel Version

0.0.4

Python Version

3.9.5

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[SteffRainville]

Look at issue #54

You can get an Async enginedirectly from SQLAlchemy

Looking at the SQLmodel code directly the engine is not async

[raulolteanu-sudo]

Just Jumping in on the conversation for the sake of not raising another issue:

Using SQLModel's version of AsyncSession and stumbled by this warning while running some tests on the code:

  /home/user/git_repos/project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sqlmodel/orm/session.py:60: SAWarning: Class SelectOfScalar will not make use of SQL compilation caching as it does not set the 'inherit_cache' attribute to ``True``.  This can have significant performance implications including some performance degradations in comparison to prior SQLAlchemy versions.  Set this attribute to True if this object can make use of the cache key generated by the superclass.  Alternatively, this attribute may be set to False which will disable this warning. (Background on this error at: https://sqlalche.me/e/14/cprf)
    results = super().execute(

-- Docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/warnings.html

short version:

Class SelectOfScalar will not make use of SQL compilation caching as it does not set the 'inherit_cache' attribute to ``True``

Has anybody bumped into this ?

[Kaelten]

@raulolteanu-sudo Check out #189, the workaround at the end should help with that.

[andrewmarcus]

https://testdriven.io/blog/fastapi-sqlmodel/

The author is using SQLAlchemy's async engine and session rather than SQLModel's to execute the queries; hence session.execute() rather than session.exec(). Consequently you lose some of the mypy typing benefits that SQLModel brings, but looks like it otherwise works.

On the other hand, it would be nice to bring native support into SQLModel, especially since @tiangolo's other project, FastAPI, is all about asyncing all the things... 😄