appobject.py
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@logilab.fr>
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:47:04 +0100
changeset 8840 bd5b5759c9b3
parent 8664 29652410c317
child 8930 6a02be304486
permissions -rw-r--r--
[session] make hook_control API private The doc already says "internal API". The old entry point is now officially deprecated and the context manager have been made private.

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"""
.. _appobject:

The `AppObject` class
---------------------

The AppObject class is the base class for all dynamically loaded objects
(application objects) accessible through the vregistry.

We can find a certain number of attributes and methods defined in this class and
common to all the application objects.

.. autoclass:: AppObject
"""
__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"

from logging import getLogger

from logilab.common.deprecation import deprecated, class_renamed
from logilab.common.decorators import classproperty
from logilab.common.logging_ext import set_log_methods

# first line imports for bw compat
from logilab.common.registry import (objectify_predicate, traced_selection, Predicate,
                                     RegistrableObject, yes)


objectify_selector = deprecated('[3.15] objectify_selector has been '
                                'renamed to objectify_predicates in '
                                'logilab.common.registry')(objectify_predicate)
traced_selection = deprecated('[3.15] traced_selection has been '
                              'moved to logilab.common.registry')(traced_selection)
Selector = class_renamed('Selector', Predicate,
                         '[3.15] Selector has been renamed to Predicate '
                         'in logilab.common.registry')

@deprecated('[3.15] lltrace decorator can now be removed')
def lltrace(func):
    return func

# the base class for all appobjects ############################################

class AppObject(RegistrableObject):
    """This is the base class for CubicWeb application objects which are
    selected in a request context.

    The following attributes should be set on concrete appobject classes:

    At selection time, the following attributes are set on the instance:

    :attr:`_cw`
      current request
    :attr:`cw_extra_kwargs`
      other received arguments

    And also the following, only if `rset` is found in arguments (in which case
    rset/row/col will be removed from `cwextra_kwargs`):

    :attr:`cw_rset`
      context result set or None

    :attr:`cw_row`
      if a result set is set and the context is about a particular cell in the
      result set, and not the result set as a whole, specify the row number we
      are interested in, else None

    :attr:`cw_col`
      if a result set is set and the context is about a particular cell in the
      result set, and not the result set as a whole, specify the col number we
      are interested in, else None


    .. Note::

      * do not inherit directly from this class but from a more specific class
        such as `AnyEntity`, `EntityView`, `AnyRsetView`, `Action`...

    """
    __select__ = yes()

    @classmethod
    def __registered__(cls, registry):
        """called by the registry when the appobject has been registered.

        It must return the object that will be actually registered (this may be
        the right hook to create an instance for example). By default the
        appobject is returned without any transformation.
        """
        pdefs = getattr(cls, 'cw_property_defs', {})
        for propid, pdef in pdefs.items():
            pdef = pdef.copy() # may be shared
            pdef['default'] = getattr(cls, propid, pdef['default'])
            pdef['sitewide'] = getattr(cls, 'site_wide', pdef.get('sitewide'))
            registry.vreg.register_property(cls._cwpropkey(propid), **pdef)
        assert callable(cls.__select__), cls
        return cls

    def __init__(self, req, **extra):
        super(AppObject, self).__init__()
        self._cw = req
        try:
            self.cw_rset = extra.pop('rset')
            self.cw_row = extra.pop('row', None)
            self.cw_col = extra.pop('col', None)
        except KeyError:
            pass
        self.cw_extra_kwargs = extra

    # persistent class properties ##############################################
    #
    # optional `cw_property_defs` dict on a class defines available persistent
    # properties for this class:
    #
    # * key: id of the property (the actual CWProperty key is build using
    #        <registry name>.<obj id>.<property id>
    # * value: tuple (property type, vocabfunc, default value, property description)
    #         possible types are those used by `logilab.common.configuration`
    #
    # notice that when it exists multiple objects with the same id (adaptation,
    # overriding) only the first encountered definition is considered, so those
    # objects can't try to have different default values for instance.
    #
    # you can then access to a property value using self.cw_propval, where self
    # is an instance of class

    @classmethod
    def _cwpropkey(cls, propid):
        """return cw property key for the property of the given id for this
        class
        """
        return '%s.%s.%s' % (cls.__registry__, cls.__regid__, propid)

    def cw_propval(self, propid):
        """return cw property value associated to key

        <cls.__registry__>.<cls.id>.<propid>
        """
        return self._cw.property_value(self._cwpropkey(propid))

    # these are overridden by set_log_methods below
    # only defining here to prevent pylint from complaining
    info = warning = error = critical = exception = debug = lambda msg,*a,**kw: None

set_log_methods(AppObject, getLogger('cubicweb.appobject'))

# defined here to avoid warning on usage on the AppObject class
yes = deprecated('[3.15] yes has been moved to logilab.common.registry')(yes)