Marshmellow-SQLAlchemy Integration

[msarfati]

https://flask-marshmallow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ -- scroll down to Optional Flask-SQLAlchemy Integration

By implementing this into the Diamond ecosystem, downstream developers will no longer have to maintain a schema separate from the model, and JSON serialization will be more efficient.

I was trying to implement this at GYI, but it cuts too deeply into the Diamond ecosystem -- utils.mxins classmethods would have to be updated, the component initialization order may have to be changed (SQLAlchemy must be initialized before Marshmallow), and other places I imagine.

[iandennismiller]

Interesting! I can imagine how that would save some headaches. Here's a direct link to the section you referenced:

https://flask-marshmallow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#optional-flask-sqlalchemy-integration

Out of curiosity, does it not work to use ModelSchema as is? It seems like a promising avenue.

https://flask-marshmallow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#flask_marshmallow.sqla.ModelSchema