app/soc/logic/no_overwrite_sorted_dict.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:46:05 +0000
changeset 302 3b9c52170f46
parent 275 78fd8c2ed80a
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fix not working delete Sponsor functionality after recent commit. Add delete() method to Base class. Make soc.views.site.sponsor.delete() request handler use this method. Patch by: Pawel Solyga Review by: to-be-reviewed

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""Like Django SortedDict, but no repeated assignments to the same key.
"""

__authors__ = [
  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',
  ]


from django.utils import datastructures


class NoOverwriteSortedDict(datastructures.SortedDict):
  """SortedDict where each key can be given a value only once.
  
  The purpose of this data structure is to be able to detect when
  an attempt is made to overwrite the value of an existing key
  in the SortedDict.  This is to catch, for example, cases such as
  a registry where two different callers attempt to register the
  same view, handler, etc.
 
  It is still possible to pop or del a key out of the dict and then
  add it back to the dict.
  """
  
  KEY_ALREADY_PRESENT_ERROR_FMT = \
    '%s already present, value cannot be overwritten'
  
  def __init__(self, data=None):
    if data is None:
      data = {}

    # call SortedDict's parent __init__()
    # (bypassing the __init__() of SortedDict itself, since it will not
    # enforce our no-overwrite requirement)
    super(datastructures.SortedDict, self).__init__(data)
    
    if isinstance(data, dict):
      self.keyOrder = data.keys()
    else:
      self.keyOrder = []

      for key, value in data:
        if key in self.keyOrder:
          # key has already been given a value, and that value is not
          # permitted to be overwritten, so raise an error
          raise KeyError(self.KEY_ALREADY_PRESENT_ERROR_FMT % key)

        self.keyOrder.append(key)

  def __setitem__(self, key, value):
    if key in self.keyOrder:
      # key has already been given a value, and that value is not permitted
      # to be overwritten, so raise an error
      raise KeyError(self.KEY_ALREADY_PRESENT_ERROR_FMT % key)

    super(NoOverwriteSortedDict, self).__setitem__(key, value)