from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

engine = create_engine('sqlite:///database.sqlite3', convert_unicode=True)
db_session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(autocommit=False,
                                         autoflush=False,
                                         bind=engine))
Base = declarative_base()
Base.query = db_session.query_property()


def init_db():
    # import all modules here that might define models so that
    # they will be registered properly on the metadata.  Otherwise
    # you will have to import them first before calling init_db()
    from models import Department, Employee
    Base.metadata.drop_all(bind=engine)
    Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)

    department = Department(name='Informatics')
    db_session.add(department)

    db_session.add(department)
    employee = Employee(name='Peter', department=department)
    db_session.add(employee)
    db_session.commit()