I define a class in a given python module. From a few other python files I will create instances of said class. The instances register themselves at object creation, ie during __init__()
, in a singleton registry object. From a third type of python file I would like to access the registry, look at the objects therein and be able to figure out in which files these objects were created beforehand.
A code sample might look as follows:
Python module file : '/Users/myself/code/myobjectmodule.py':
@singleton
class Registry(object):
def __init__(self):
self.objects = {}
class MyObject(object):
def __init__(self, object_name):
self.object_name = object_name
Registry().objects[self.object_name] = self
singleton
decorator according to http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/#examples
Instance creation python files : '/Users/myself/code/instance_creation_python_file.py':
from myobjectmodule import MyObject
A = MyObject('Foo')
Third python file : '/Users/myself/code/registry_access.py':
from myobjectmodule import Registry
registry = Registry()
foo = registry.objects['Foo']
Now, I would like to have a method foo.get_file_of_object_creation()
.
How can I implement this method?
The reason for this approach is the following scenario:
1. A framework defines a set of objects that shall specify data sources and contain the data after loading (MyObject).
2. Apps making use of this framework shall specify these objects and make use of them. Each app is saved in a .py file or a folder that also specifies the name of the app via its name.
3. An engine provides functionality for all apps, but needs to know, for some features, which of the objects originate from which app / file.
In Python, you can get type information about an object with the built-in type() function. By type information I mean information about the class that implements the object. This tells you the object w1 is of type Weight. Now, you can use the type() function to check the type of anything.
Python provides a __bases__ attribute on each class that can be used to obtain a list of classes the given class inherits. The __bases__ property of the class contains a list of all the base classes that the given class inherits.
The __call__ method enables Python programmers to write classes where the instances behave like functions and can be called like a function. When the instance is called as a function; if this method is defined, x(arg1, arg2, ...) is a shorthand for x.
initializer method. A special method in Python (called __init__) that is invoked automatically to set a newly created object's attributes to their initial (factory-default) state. instance. An object whose type is of some class.
Without getting into the merits of why would you want to do this, here is a way to do it:
# assume the file is saved as "temp.py"
import inspect
class RegisteredObject(object):
def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
new_instance = super(RegisteredObject, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
stack_trace = inspect.stack()
created_at = '%s:%d' % (
stack_trace[1][1], stack_trace[1][2])
new_instance.created_at = created_at
return new_instance
def get_file_of_object_creation(self):
return self.created_at
class MyObject(RegisteredObject):
pass
def create_A():
return MyObject()
def create_B():
return MyObject()
if __name__ == '__main__':
t1 = create_A()
t2 = create_B()
t3 = create_A()
t4 = create_B()
t5 = MyObject()
print '"t1" was created at "%s"' % t1.get_file_of_object_creation()
print '"t2" was created at "%s"' % t2.get_file_of_object_creation()
print '"t3" was created at "%s"' % t3.get_file_of_object_creation()
print '"t4" was created at "%s"' % t4.get_file_of_object_creation()
print '"t5" was created at "%s"' % t5.get_file_of_object_creation()
Output:
$ python temp.py
"t1" was created at "temp.py:19"
"t2" was created at "temp.py:22"
"t3" was created at "temp.py:19"
"t4" was created at "temp.py:22"
"t5" was created at "temp.py:29"
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