Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
"""
This module holds the base `SpatialBackend` object, which is
instantiated by each spatial backend with the features it has.
"""
# TODO: Create a `Geometry` protocol and allow user to use
# different Geometry objects -- for now we just use GEOSGeometry.
from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSGeometry, GEOSException
class BaseSpatialBackend(object):
Geometry = GEOSGeometry
GeometryException = GEOSException
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
kwargs.setdefault('distance_functions', {})
kwargs.setdefault('limited_where', {})
for k, v in kwargs.iteritems(): setattr(self, k, v)
def __getattr__(self, name):
"""
All attributes of the spatial backend return False by default.
"""
try:
return self.__dict__[name]
except KeyError:
return False