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Status Ideas Contest
Categories InterSystems IRIS
Created by Sylvain Guilbaud
Created on Jul 7, 2023

use Python Class Definition Syntax to create IRIS classes

Now that IRIS support Python, UDL syntax should not be the only way with SQL DDL to define/create classes in IRIS.

  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    May 9, 2025

    Thank you for submitting an idea for the Ideas contest. The status changed to "Ideas Contest".

    Please answer the experts' clarifying questions, if any, during the contest and voting period.

  • Admin
    Vadim Aniskin
    Feb 6, 2024

    An article by Heloisa Paiva aioleHasioleh@Heloisa Paiva related to this idea was posted today on the Developer Community. I add a link here:

    About the idea of Using Python Class Definition Syntax to create IRIS classes

    Hope this article will help the idea's promotion.

  • Dmitry Maslennikov
    Jul 11, 2023

    Hi Sylvain,


    Could you expand, on what you want to see, and what it should look like?

    There are already many different ways, to do it

    • Plain SQL, which can be executed with irissqlcli

    • DBT, more complex SQL with templates, and transformations

    • SQLAlchemy based applications

    • Django applications

    Choose any of these ways, all of them use Python to connect to IRIS