import databases import ormar import sqlalchemy database = databases.Database("sqlite:///db.sqlite") metadata = sqlalchemy.MetaData() class Book(ormar.Model): class Meta: tablename = "books" metadata = metadata database = database id: int = ormar.Integer(primary_key=True) title: str = ormar.String(max_length=200) author: str = ormar.String(max_length=100) genre: str = ormar.String( max_length=100, default="Fiction", choices=["Fiction", "Adventure", "Historic", "Fantasy"], ) await Book.objects.create(title="Tom Sawyer", author="Twain, Mark", genre="Adventure") await Book.objects.create(title="War and Peace", author="Tolstoy, Leo", genre="Fiction") await Book.objects.create(title="Anna Karenina", author="Tolstoy, Leo", genre="Fiction") # if not exist the instance will be persisted in db vol2 = await Book.objects.update_or_create( title="Volume II", author="Anonymous", genre="Fiction" ) assert await Book.objects.count() == 1 # if pk or pkname passed in kwargs (like id here) the object will be updated assert await Book.objects.update_or_create(id=vol2.id, genre="Historic") assert await Book.objects.count() == 1