X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/1bee151fe3ccfd21df1d809392d6eb52ce7925cb..36d068871da6921f6f2a7cd81df393f4fa3661a9:/nominatim/typing.py

diff --git a/nominatim/typing.py b/nominatim/typing.py
index 7914d731..bc4c5534 100644
--- a/nominatim/typing.py
+++ b/nominatim/typing.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # This file is part of Nominatim. (https://nominatim.org)
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2022 by the Nominatim developer community.
+# Copyright (C) 2023 by the Nominatim developer community.
 # For a full list of authors see the git log.
 """
 Type definitions for typing annotations.
@@ -50,3 +50,21 @@ else:
     Protocol = object
     Final = 'Final'
     TypedDict = dict
+
+
+# SQLAlchemy introduced generic types in version 2.0 making typing
+# incompatible with older versions. Add wrappers here so we don't have
+# to litter the code with bare-string types.
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import sqlalchemy as sa
+    from typing_extensions import (TypeAlias as TypeAlias)
+else:
+    TypeAlias = str
+
+SaSelect: TypeAlias = 'sa.Select[Any]'
+SaRow: TypeAlias = 'sa.Row[Any]'
+SaColumn: TypeAlias = 'sa.ColumnElement[Any]'
+SaLabel: TypeAlias = 'sa.Label[Any]'
+SaFromClause: TypeAlias = 'sa.FromClause'
+SaSelectable: TypeAlias = 'sa.Selectable'