1# event/api.py
2# Copyright (C) 2005-2025 the SQLAlchemy authors and contributors
3# <see AUTHORS file>
4#
5# This module is part of SQLAlchemy and is released under
6# the MIT License: https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
7
8"""Public API functions for the event system."""
9from __future__ import annotations
10
11from typing import Any
12from typing import Callable
13
14from .base import _registrars
15from .registry import _ET
16from .registry import _EventKey
17from .registry import _ListenerFnType
18from .. import exc
19from .. import util
20
21
22CANCEL = util.symbol("CANCEL")
23NO_RETVAL = util.symbol("NO_RETVAL")
24
25
26def _event_key(
27 target: _ET, identifier: str, fn: _ListenerFnType
28) -> _EventKey[_ET]:
29 for evt_cls in _registrars[identifier]:
30 tgt = evt_cls._accept_with(target, identifier)
31 if tgt is not None:
32 return _EventKey(target, identifier, fn, tgt)
33 else:
34 raise exc.InvalidRequestError(
35 "No such event '%s' for target '%s'" % (identifier, target)
36 )
37
38
39def listen(
40 target: Any, identifier: str, fn: Callable[..., Any], *args: Any, **kw: Any
41) -> None:
42 """Register a listener function for the given target.
43
44 The :func:`.listen` function is part of the primary interface for the
45 SQLAlchemy event system, documented at :ref:`event_toplevel`.
46
47 e.g.::
48
49 from sqlalchemy import event
50 from sqlalchemy.schema import UniqueConstraint
51
52
53 def unique_constraint_name(const, table):
54 const.name = "uq_%s_%s" % (table.name, list(const.columns)[0].name)
55
56
57 event.listen(
58 UniqueConstraint, "after_parent_attach", unique_constraint_name
59 )
60
61 :param bool insert: The default behavior for event handlers is to append
62 the decorated user defined function to an internal list of registered
63 event listeners upon discovery. If a user registers a function with
64 ``insert=True``, SQLAlchemy will insert (prepend) the function to the
65 internal list upon discovery. This feature is not typically used or
66 recommended by the SQLAlchemy maintainers, but is provided to ensure
67 certain user defined functions can run before others, such as when
68 :ref:`Changing the sql_mode in MySQL <mysql_sql_mode>`.
69
70 :param bool named: When using named argument passing, the names listed in
71 the function argument specification will be used as keys in the
72 dictionary.
73 See :ref:`event_named_argument_styles`.
74
75 :param bool once: Private/Internal API usage. Deprecated. This parameter
76 would provide that an event function would run only once per given
77 target. It does not however imply automatic de-registration of the
78 listener function; associating an arbitrarily high number of listeners
79 without explicitly removing them will cause memory to grow unbounded even
80 if ``once=True`` is specified.
81
82 :param bool propagate: The ``propagate`` kwarg is available when working
83 with ORM instrumentation and mapping events.
84 See :class:`_ormevent.MapperEvents` and
85 :meth:`_ormevent.MapperEvents.before_mapper_configured` for examples.
86
87 :param bool retval: This flag applies only to specific event listeners,
88 each of which includes documentation explaining when it should be used.
89 By default, no listener ever requires a return value.
90 However, some listeners do support special behaviors for return values,
91 and include in their documentation that the ``retval=True`` flag is
92 necessary for a return value to be processed.
93
94 Event listener suites that make use of :paramref:`_event.listen.retval`
95 include :class:`_events.ConnectionEvents` and
96 :class:`_ormevent.AttributeEvents`.
97
98 .. note::
99
100 The :func:`.listen` function cannot be called at the same time
101 that the target event is being run. This has implications
102 for thread safety, and also means an event cannot be added
103 from inside the listener function for itself. The list of
104 events to be run are present inside of a mutable collection
105 that can't be changed during iteration.
106
107 Event registration and removal is not intended to be a "high
108 velocity" operation; it is a configurational operation. For
109 systems that need to quickly associate and deassociate with
110 events at high scale, use a mutable structure that is handled
111 from inside of a single listener.
112
113 .. seealso::
114
115 :func:`.listens_for`
116
117 :func:`.remove`
118
119 """
120
121 _event_key(target, identifier, fn).listen(*args, **kw)
122
123
124def listens_for(
125 target: Any, identifier: str, *args: Any, **kw: Any
126) -> Callable[[Callable[..., Any]], Callable[..., Any]]:
127 """Decorate a function as a listener for the given target + identifier.
128
129 The :func:`.listens_for` decorator is part of the primary interface for the
130 SQLAlchemy event system, documented at :ref:`event_toplevel`.
131
132 This function generally shares the same kwargs as :func:`.listen`.
133
134 e.g.::
135
136 from sqlalchemy import event
137 from sqlalchemy.schema import UniqueConstraint
138
139
140 @event.listens_for(UniqueConstraint, "after_parent_attach")
141 def unique_constraint_name(const, table):
142 const.name = "uq_%s_%s" % (table.name, list(const.columns)[0].name)
143
144 A given function can also be invoked for only the first invocation
145 of the event using the ``once`` argument::
146
147 @event.listens_for(Mapper, "before_configure", once=True)
148 def on_config():
149 do_config()
150
151 .. warning:: The ``once`` argument does not imply automatic de-registration
152 of the listener function after it has been invoked a first time; a
153 listener entry will remain associated with the target object.
154 Associating an arbitrarily high number of listeners without explicitly
155 removing them will cause memory to grow unbounded even if ``once=True``
156 is specified.
157
158 .. seealso::
159
160 :func:`.listen` - general description of event listening
161
162 """
163
164 def decorate(fn: Callable[..., Any]) -> Callable[..., Any]:
165 listen(target, identifier, fn, *args, **kw)
166 return fn
167
168 return decorate
169
170
171def remove(target: Any, identifier: str, fn: Callable[..., Any]) -> None:
172 """Remove an event listener.
173
174 The arguments here should match exactly those which were sent to
175 :func:`.listen`; all the event registration which proceeded as a result
176 of this call will be reverted by calling :func:`.remove` with the same
177 arguments.
178
179 e.g.::
180
181 # if a function was registered like this...
182 @event.listens_for(SomeMappedClass, "before_insert", propagate=True)
183 def my_listener_function(*arg):
184 pass
185
186
187 # ... it's removed like this
188 event.remove(SomeMappedClass, "before_insert", my_listener_function)
189
190 Above, the listener function associated with ``SomeMappedClass`` was also
191 propagated to subclasses of ``SomeMappedClass``; the :func:`.remove`
192 function will revert all of these operations.
193
194 .. note::
195
196 The :func:`.remove` function cannot be called at the same time
197 that the target event is being run. This has implications
198 for thread safety, and also means an event cannot be removed
199 from inside the listener function for itself. The list of
200 events to be run are present inside of a mutable collection
201 that can't be changed during iteration.
202
203 Event registration and removal is not intended to be a "high
204 velocity" operation; it is a configurational operation. For
205 systems that need to quickly associate and deassociate with
206 events at high scale, use a mutable structure that is handled
207 from inside of a single listener.
208
209 .. seealso::
210
211 :func:`.listen`
212
213 """
214 _event_key(target, identifier, fn).remove()
215
216
217def contains(target: Any, identifier: str, fn: Callable[..., Any]) -> bool:
218 """Return True if the given target/ident/fn is set up to listen."""
219
220 return _event_key(target, identifier, fn).contains()