Sqlalchemy many to many mapping with extra fields

I created a many to many relationship with sqlalchemy like this:

subject_books = Table('subject_books', Base.metadata,
    Column('subject_id', Integer, ForeignKey('subjects.id')),
    Column('book_id', Integer, ForeignKey('books.id')),
    Column('group', Integer)
)

class Subject(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'subjects'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    value = Column(Unicode(255), unique=True)

class Book(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'books'
    id =  Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    title = Column(Unicode(255))
    isbn = Column(Unicode(24))
    subjects = relationship('Subject', secondary=subject_books, collection_class=attribute_mapped_collection('group'), backref='books')

after that I created a test like following:

book = 开发者_如何学编程Book(title='first book',isbn='test')
book.subjects[0] = Subject(value='first subject')
book.subjects[1] = Subject(value='second subject')

session.add(book)
transaction.commit()

and it works fine. But what I really want is to store more than one subject with the same group value, so I tried the following test:

book = Book(title='first book',isbn='test')
book.subjects[0] = [Subject(value='first subject'),Subject(value='second subject')]
book.subjects[1] = [Subject(value='third subject'),Subject(value='forth subject')]

session.add(book)
transaction.commit()

but it does not work.

Can this be done using sqlalchemy?

Thanks in Advance

Razi

I think you are constructing wrong relation ship.

Your relation ship must be

book M2M subject

subject M2M group

So you have to create one more model for group and that must be assign as m2m in Subject

Your models will be like.

subject_books = Table('subject_books', Base.metadata,
    Column('subject_id', Integer, ForeignKey('subjects.id')),
    Column('book_id', Integer, ForeignKey('books.id')),        
)
subject_group = Table('subject_groups', Base.metadata,
    Column('group_id', Integer, ForeignKey('groups.id')),
    Column('subject_id', Integer, ForeignKey('subjects.id')),
)

class Subject(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'subjects'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    value = Column(Unicode(255), unique=True)
    groups = relationship('Groups', secondary=subject_groups, backref='subjects')

class Groups(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'groups'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column(Unicode(255), unique=True)

class Book(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'books'
    id =  Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    title = Column(Unicode(255))
    isbn = Column(Unicode(24))
    subjects = relationship('Subject', secondary=subject_books, backref='books')

I also check the docs for attribute_mapped_collection. But each time I found that each key is associated with only one object not more then one. If you read anywhere then please provide the link so I can check that how it will be fit in your code.

I think this will be help you.