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pluggable impls

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Description

Migrated issue, originally created by Michael Bayer (@zzzeek)

to support any number of dialects, the system by which we load "impls" should use the PluginLoader system from SQLAlchemy, and support entrypoints as well as local registration. Similarly, there should be a test suite just like that of SQLAlchemy which runs a standard suite of "operation directive" tests on any arbitrary impl. This implies the task of upgrading alembic's testing platform to use the SQLAlchemy library that now supports py.test.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing Alembic's current impl-loading and testing-platform entry points, then compare them with SQLAlchemy's PluginLoader and py.test-supported test suite. Done means dialect implementations can register locally or through entrypoints, and arbitrary impls run the standard operation-directive tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, sqlalchemy
Domain
databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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