app/django/db/models/fields/subclassing.py
author Daniel Bentley <dbentley@google.com>
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:06:45 +0000
branchgae-fetch-limitation-fix
changeset 2313 c39a81bce1bd
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Use offset_linkid instead of offset to scan >1000 entities. this is a first-cut. It works in all the ways I could make earlier versions fail. It passes link_id as URL parameters. It also has a new class LinkCreator which makes the main body of getListContents even easier to write. I wasn't sure if link_id's could have non alphanumeric characters; if so, they need to be URL encoded/decoded. I also need to go and remove any mention of raw offsets now, because we don't use them. I believe I've talked about this approach with a few of you and it sounded reasonable. Feel free to roll-back/fix/amend/comment-for-me-to-fix. This is my first big-logic-change to Melange. Patch by: Dan Bentley

"""
Convenience routines for creating non-trivial Field subclasses.

Add SubfieldBase as the __metaclass__ for your Field subclass, implement
to_python() and the other necessary methods and everything will work seamlessly.
"""

class SubfieldBase(type):
    """
    A metaclass for custom Field subclasses. This ensures the model's attribute
    has the descriptor protocol attached to it.
    """
    def __new__(cls, base, name, attrs):
        new_class = super(SubfieldBase, cls).__new__(cls, base, name, attrs)
        new_class.contribute_to_class = make_contrib(
                attrs.get('contribute_to_class'))
        return new_class

class Creator(object):
    """
    A placeholder class that provides a way to set the attribute on the model.
    """
    def __init__(self, field):
        self.field = field

    def __get__(self, obj, type=None):
        if obj is None:
            raise AttributeError('Can only be accessed via an instance.')
        return obj.__dict__[self.field.name]        

    def __set__(self, obj, value):
        obj.__dict__[self.field.name] = self.field.to_python(value)

def make_contrib(func=None):
    """
    Returns a suitable contribute_to_class() method for the Field subclass.

    If 'func' is passed in, it is the existing contribute_to_class() method on
    the subclass and it is called before anything else. It is assumed in this
    case that the existing contribute_to_class() calls all the necessary
    superclass methods.
    """
    def contribute_to_class(self, cls, name):
        if func:
            func(self, cls, name)
        else:
            super(self.__class__, self).contribute_to_class(cls, name)
        setattr(cls, self.name, Creator(self))

    return contribute_to_class