[Python] How to query a SQL View from flask-SQLAlchemy

I have been given access to a database (MySQL, in case it matters) to access some data that I need, but I don't have direct access to the tables, the data is exposed through a SQL View.

I want to wrap this in a small API using flask. For the database connection I intend to use SQLAlchemy (just because it's the only databse wrapper that I know in python).

The thing is, I have read a lot of documentation, and dozens of stackoverflow posts and guides through the Internet, and I can't seem to find a way to query SQL Views from flask-SQLAlchemy.

In the documentation, they always use Models. I tried to define my View as a Model, but I get could not assemble any primary key columns for mapped table 'MySQLView'.

What I tried to do:

class MyView(db.Model):
__tablename__ = "my_view_name_in_sql"
db.Column("id", db.Integer, primary_key=True)
db.Column("sample_id", db.String)
{...etc}


Is there a way to do this, or maybe I should opt-out of using flask-SQLAlchemy and use something else instead?

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