Reverting changes
*****************

One of the major benefits of SQLAlchemy-Continuum is its ability to
revert changes.


Revert update
=============

   article = Article(name=u'New article', content=u'Some content')
   session.add(article)
   session.commit(article)

   version = article.versions[0]
   article.name = u'Updated article'
   session.commit()

   version.revert()
   session.commit()

   article.name
   # u'New article'


Revert delete
=============

   article = Article(name=u'New article', content=u'Some content')
   session.add(article)
   session.commit(article)

   version = article.versions[0]
   session.delete(article)
   session.commit()

   version.revert()
   session.commit()

   # article lives again!
   session.query(Article).first()


Revert relationships
====================

Sometimes you may have cases where you want to revert an object as
well as some of its relation to certain state. Consider the following
model definition:

   class Article(Base):
       __tablename__ = 'article'
       __versioned__ = {}

       id = sa.Column(sa.Integer, autoincrement=True, primary_key=True)
       name = sa.Column(sa.Unicode(255))


   class Tag(Base):
       __tablename__ = 'tag'
       __versioned__ = {}

       id = sa.Column(sa.Integer, autoincrement=True, primary_key=True)
       name = sa.Column(sa.Unicode(255))
       article_id = sa.Column(sa.Integer, sa.ForeignKey(Article.id))
       article = sa.orm.relationship(Article, backref='tags')

Now lets say some user first adds an article with couple of tags:

   article = Article(
       name=u'Some article',
       tags=[Tag(u'Good'), Tag(u'Interesting')]
   )

   session.add(article)
   session.commit()

Then lets say another user deletes one of the tags:

   tag = session.query(Tag).filter_by(name=u'Interesting')

   session.delete(tag)
   session.commit()

Now the first user wants to set the article back to its original
state. It can be achieved as follows (notice how we use the relations
parameter):

   article = session.get(Article, 1)
   article.versions[0].revert(relations=['tags'])
   session.commit()
