Don't Inherit from Associable in File but in models which derive

src/privatim/models/comment.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class YourModel(Base, Commentable):
     model = YourModel(name='stuff')
     model.comments.append(Comment('Interesting sqlalchemy design pattern'))
 
-   """
+       """
 
     __tablename__ = 'comments'
 

src/privatim/models/commentable.py

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 from privatim.models.comment import Comment
 from privatim.orm.associable import associated
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped
 
 
 class Commentable:
     """ Use this in your model to attach a list[Comment] """
 
-    comments = associated(
+    comments: 'Mapped[list[Comment]]' = associated(
         Comment, 'comments', 'one-to-many'
     )

src/privatim/models/file.py

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column, deferred
 from privatim.orm.abstract import AbstractFile
+from privatim.orm.associable import Associable
 from privatim.orm.meta import UUIDStrPK
 from sqlalchemy import Text, ForeignKey, Integer
 
 
-class GeneralFile(AbstractFile):
+class GeneralFile(AbstractFile, Associable):
     """A general file (image, document, pdf, etc), referenced in the database.
 
     A thin wrapper around the `File` from sqlalchemy-file so that we can easily
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ class GeneralFile(AbstractFile):
     }
 
 
-class SearchableFile(AbstractFile):
+class SearchableFile(AbstractFile, Associable):
     """
     A file with the intention of being searchable. Should to be used with
     SearchableAssociatedFiles.

src/privatim/orm/abstract.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column
 from sqlalchemy_file import File
 
-from privatim.orm.associable import Associable
 from privatim.orm.meta import UUIDStrPK, AttachedFile
 from privatim.orm import Base
 
@@ -14,7 +13,7 @@
     from privatim.types import ACL
 
 
-class AbstractFile(Base, Associable):
+class AbstractFile(Base):
     __abstract__ = True
 
     id: Mapped[UUIDStrPK] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)