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