SQLAlchemy Inserting Data in a Many-to-Many Relationship with Association Table
I was able to get this working, my problem lied in the following bit of code (error in bold):
#My Version Using my Tablescenter = Center.query.get(session['center']assoc = CenterBusiness()**assoc.info** = Business(typId=form.type.data, name=form.name.data, contact=form.contact.data, phone=form.phone.data)center.businesses.append(assoc)db.session.commit()
As explained in my comment in the question:
Alright my issue was that I was not using the relationship key "info" I have in my CenterBusiness model to define the appended association. I was saying center.business thinking that the term business in that case was arbitrary. However, I needed to actually reference that relationship. As such, the appropriate key I had setup already in CenterBusiness was info.
I will still accept any updates and/or better ways to handle this situation, though I think this is the best route at the time.
below example can help umore details http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/extensions/associationproxy.html
class User(Base): __tablename__ = 'user' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) name = Column(String(64)) # association proxy of "user_keywords" collection # to "keyword" attribute keywords = association_proxy('user_keywords', 'keyword') def __init__(self, name): self.name = nameclass UserKeyword(Base): __tablename__ = 'user_keyword' user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('user.id'), primary_key=True) keyword_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('keyword.id'), primary_key=True) special_key = Column(String(50)) # bidirectional attribute/collection of "user"/"user_keywords" user = relationship(User, backref=backref("user_keywords", cascade="all, delete-orphan") ) # reference to the "Keyword" object keyword = relationship("Keyword") def __init__(self, keyword=None, user=None, special_key=None): self.user = user self.keyword = keyword self.special_key = special_keyclass Keyword(Base): __tablename__ = 'keyword' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) keyword = Column('keyword', String(64)) def __init__(self, keyword): self.keyword = keyword def __repr__(self): return 'Keyword(%s)' % repr(self.keyword)