Make use of more SQLAlchemy Utils

requirements/common.txt

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ FastAPI
 SQLAlchemy[asyncio]
 Alembic
 SQLAlchemy-Utils
+Babel
 python-slugify

setup.cfg

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ install_requires =
     SQLAlchemy[asyncio]
     Alembic
     SQLAlchemy-Utils
+    Babel
     python-slugify
 
 [options.extras_require]

src/compub/db/base.py

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import declarative_base, sessionmaker
 from sqlalchemy.sql.functions import now as db_now
 from sqlalchemy.sql.schema import Column
 from sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes import TIMESTAMP
+from sqlalchemy_utils.functions.orm import get_columns
+from sqlalchemy_utils.listeners import force_auto_coercion
 
 from compub.exceptions import NoDatabaseConfigured
 from compub.settings import settings
@@ -14,6 +16,8 @@ engine = create_async_engine(settings.db_uri, future=True)
 LocalAsyncSession = sessionmaker(engine, expire_on_commit=False, class_=AsyncSession)
 ORMBase = declarative_base()
 
+force_auto_coercion()
+
 
 class AbstractBase(ORMBase):
     __abstract__ = True
@@ -25,7 +29,7 @@ class AbstractBase(ORMBase):
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         # Exclude non-representative fields:
-        fields = (name for name in self.__mapper__.columns.keys() if name not in self.NON_REPR_FIELDS)
+        fields = (name for name in get_columns(self).keys() if name not in self.NON_REPR_FIELDS)
         # Exclude NULL value fields:
         attrs = ', '.join(f"{name}={repr(getattr(self, name))}" for name in fields if getattr(self, name) is not None)
         return f"{self.__class__.__name__}({attrs})"