QueryBuilder¶

class lsst.daf.butler.registry.queries.QueryBuilder(summary: lsst.daf.butler.registry.queries._structs.QuerySummary, managers: lsst.daf.butler.registry.queries._structs.RegistryManagers)¶

Bases: object

A builder for potentially complex queries that join tables based on dimension relationships.

Parameters:	summary : `QuerySummary` Struct organizing the dimensions involved in the query. managers : `RegistryManagers` A struct containing the registry manager instances used by the query system.

Methods Summary

`finish`(joinMissing)	Finish query constructing, returning a new `Query` instance.
`finishJoin`(table, joinOn)	Complete a join on dimensions.
`hasDimensionKey`(dimension)	Return `True` if the given dimension’s primary key column has been included in the query (possibly via a foreign key column on some other table).
`joinDataset`(datasetType, collections, *, …)	Add a dataset search or constraint to the query.
`joinDimensionElement`(element)	Add the table for a `DimensionElement` to the query.
`joinTable`(table, dimensions, *, datasets)	Join an arbitrary table to the query via dimension relationships.
`startJoin`(table, dimensions, columnNames)	Begin a join on dimensions.

Methods Documentation

finish(joinMissing: bool = True) → lsst.daf.butler.registry.queries._query.Query¶

Finish query constructing, returning a new Query instance.

Parameters:	joinMissing : `bool`, optional If `True` (default), automatically join any missing dimension element tables (according to the categorization of the `QuerySummary` the builder was constructed with). `False` should only be passed if the caller can independently guarantee that all dimension relationships are already captured in non-dimension tables that have been manually included in the query.
Returns:	query : `Query` A `Query` object that can be executed and used to interpret result rows.

finishJoin(table: sqlalchemy.sql.selectable.FromClause, joinOn: List[sqlalchemy.sql.elements.ColumnElement]) → None¶

Complete a join on dimensions.

Must be preceded by call to startJoin.

Parameters:

table : sqlalchemy.sql.FromClause: SQLAlchemy object representing the logical table (which may be a join or subquery expression) to be joined. Must be the same object passed to startJoin.
joinOn : list of sqlalchemy.sql.ColumnElement: Sequence of boolean expressions that should be combined with AND to form (part of) the ON expression for this JOIN. Should include at least the elements of the list returned by startJoin.

hasDimensionKey(dimension: lsst.daf.butler.core.dimensions._elements.Dimension) → bool¶: Return True if the given dimension’s primary key column has been included in the query (possibly via a foreign key column on some other table).

joinDataset(datasetType: lsst.daf.butler.core.datasets.type.DatasetType, collections: Any, *, isResult: bool = True, findFirst: bool = False) → bool¶

Add a dataset search or constraint to the query.

Unlike other QueryBuilder join methods, this must be called directly to search for datasets of a particular type or constrain the query results based on the exists of datasets. However, all dimensions used to identify the dataset type must have already been included in QuerySummary.requested when initializing the QueryBuilder.

Parameters:

datasetType : DatasetType: The type of datasets to search for.
collections : Any: An expression that fully or partially identifies the collections to search for datasets, such as a str, re.Pattern, or iterable thereof. can be used to return all collections. See Collection expressions for more information.
isResult : bool, optional: If True (default), include the dataset ID column in the result columns of the query, allowing complete DatasetRef instances to be produced from the query results for this dataset type. If False, the existence of datasets of this type is used only to constrain the data IDs returned by the query. joinDataset may be called with isResult=True at most one time on a particular QueryBuilder instance.
findFirst : bool, optional: If True (False is default), only include the first match for each data ID, searching the given collections in order. Requires that all entries in collections be regular strings, so there is a clear search order. Ignored if isResult is False.

Returns:

anyRecords : bool: If True, joining the dataset table was successful and the query should proceed. If False, we were able to determine (from the combination of datasetType and collections) that there would be no results joined in from this dataset, and hence (due to the inner join that would normally be present), the full query will return no results.

joinDimensionElement(element: lsst.daf.butler.core.dimensions._elements.DimensionElement) → None¶

Add the table for a DimensionElement to the query.

This automatically joins the element table to all other tables in the query with which it is related, via both dimension keys and spatial and temporal relationships.

External calls to this method should rarely be necessary; finish will automatically call it if the DimensionElement has been identified as one that must be included.

Parameters:	element : `DimensionElement` Element for which a table should be added. The element must be associated with a database table (see `DimensionElement.hasTable`).

joinTable(table: sqlalchemy.sql.selectable.FromClause, dimensions: lsst.daf.butler.core.named.NamedValueAbstractSet[lsst.daf.butler.core.dimensions._elements.Dimension][lsst.daf.butler.core.dimensions._elements.Dimension], *, datasets: Optional[lsst.daf.butler.registry.queries._structs.DatasetQueryColumns] = None) → None¶

Join an arbitrary table to the query via dimension relationships.

External calls to this method should only be necessary for tables whose records represent neither datasets nor dimension elements.

Parameters:

table : sqlalchemy.sql.FromClause: SQLAlchemy object representing the logical table (which may be a join or subquery expression) to be joined.
dimensions : iterable of Dimension: The dimensions that relate this table to others that may be in the query. The table must have columns with the names of the dimensions.
datasets : DatasetQueryColumns, optional: Columns that identify a dataset that is part of the query results.

startJoin(table: sqlalchemy.sql.selectable.FromClause, dimensions: Iterable[lsst.daf.butler.core.dimensions._elements.Dimension], columnNames: Iterable[str]) → List[sqlalchemy.sql.elements.ColumnElement]¶

Begin a join on dimensions.

Must be followed by call to finishJoin.

Parameters:

table : sqlalchemy.sql.FromClause: SQLAlchemy object representing the logical table (which may be a join or subquery expression) to be joined.
dimensions : iterable of Dimension: The dimensions that relate this table to others that may be in the query. The table must have columns with the names of the dimensions.
columnNames : iterable of str: Names of the columns that correspond to dimension key values; must be zip iterable with dimensions.

Returns:

joinOn : list of sqlalchemy.sql.ColumnElement: Sequence of boolean expressions that should be combined with AND to form (part of) the ON expression for this JOIN.

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