"""SQLAlchemy Metadata and Session object"""
from sqlalchemy import MetaData
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
-__all__ = ['Session', 'engine', 'metadata']
+__all__ = ['Session', 'engine', 'TableBase']
# SQLAlchemy database engine. Updated by model.init_model()
engine = None
# SQLAlchemy session manager. Updated by model.init_model()
Session = scoped_session(sessionmaker())
-# Global metadata. If you have multiple databases with overlapping table
-# names, you'll need a metadata for each database
-metadata = MetaData()
+# Base class for declarative; creates its own metadata object
+TableBase = declarative_base()
+metadata = TableBase.metadata