Close access to the base class public methods

[RinKaMeAri]

Hi!
Could you imagine any way to block access to the base class public
methods?
Here is an example:
class B:
def public_method() :
pass

class A(B):
def public_a_method ():
pass

def a = A()

Is there any way to block the call a.public_method () without any
changes to B class?
Thank you!

[Steve Holden]

RinKaMeAri wrote:

Hi!
Could you imagine any way to block access to the base class public
methods?
Here is an example:
class B:
def public_method() :
pass

class A(B):
def public_a_method ():
pass

def a = A()

Is there any way to block the call a.public_method () without any
changes to B class?
Thank you!

The simplest way would be to override B.public_method within A by
defining A.public_method to raise a NotImplementedE rror or similar
exception. Though of course this then begs the question of why A would
need to subclass B in the first place, but I assume there would be
methods you *did* want to implement.

Perhaps more background would yield a better solution.

regards
Steve
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Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

[RinKaMeAri]

On Nov 11, 9:12*pm, Steve Holden <st...@holdenwe b.comwrote:

RinKaMeAri wrote:

Hi!
Could you imagine any way to block access to the base class public
methods?
Here is an example:
class B:
* * def public_method() :
* * * * pass

class A(B):
* * def public_a_method ():
* * * * *pass

def a = A()

Is there any way to block the call a.public_method () without any
changes to B class?
Thank you!

The simplest way would be to override B.public_method within A by
defining A.public_method to raise a NotImplementedE rror or similar
exception. Though of course this then begs the question of why A would
need to subclass B in the first place, but I assume there would be
methods you *did* want to implement.

Perhaps more background would yield a better solution.

regards
*Steve
--
Steve Holden * * * *[phone] * [phone]

Thanks, Steve! will do what you have proposed.

It is just the stub example. Have been writing some tests for class
hierarchy and found the case when user can call the base method with
the derived instance and have problems :-) IMO, it is the class
design bug. Tried to play with __all__, setattr, getattr, but didn't
find any solution.

BTW, what do you mean "to subclass B in the *first place*"?

[Steve Holden]

RinKaMeAri wrote:

On Nov 11, 9:12 pm, Steve Holden <st...@holdenwe b.comwrote:

>RinKaMeAri wrote:

>>Hi!
Could you imagine any way to block access to the base class public
methods?
Here is an example:
class B:
def public_method() :
pass
class A(B):
def public_a_method ():
pass
def a = A()
Is there any way to block the call a.public_method () without any
changes to B class?
Thank you!

The simplest way would be to override B.public_method within A by
defining A.public_method to raise a NotImplementedE rror or similar
exception. Though of course this then begs the question of why A would
need to subclass B in the first place, but I assume there would be
methods you *did* want to implement.

Perhaps more background would yield a better solution.

regards
Steve
--
Steve Holden [phone] [phone]

Thanks, Steve! will do what you have proposed.

It is just the stub example. Have been writing some tests for class
hierarchy and found the case when user can call the base method with
the derived instance and have problems :-) IMO, it is the class
design bug. Tried to play with __all__, setattr, getattr, but didn't
find any solution.

BTW, what do you mean "to subclass B in the *first place*"?

It's just an expression. As in "I built A as a subclass of B, but since
I overrode all B's methods in A there was no point making it a subclass
in the first place".

regards
Steve

--
Steve Holden [phone] [phone]
Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, RinKaMeAri <ma****@gmail.c omwrote:

On Nov 11, 9:12 pm, Steve Holden <st...@holdenwe b.comwrote:

>RinKaMeAri wrote:

Hi!
Could you imagine any way to block access to the base class public
methods?
Here is an example:
class B:
def public_method() :
pass

class A(B):
def public_a_method ():
pass

def a = A()

Is there any way to block the call a.public_method () without any
changes to B class?
Thank you!

The simplest way would be to override B.public_method within A by
defining A.public_method to raise a NotImplementedE rror or similar
exception. Though of course this then begs the question of why A would
need to subclass B in the first place, but I assume there would be
methods you *did* want to implement.

<snip>

>
BTW, what do you mean "to subclass B in the *first place*"?

Because you're inheriting from A and yet you don't want to inherit a
certain part of A, in this case public_method() , it's usually a sign
something is wrong with your class hierarchy; otherwise, you could
just inherit from something else which would have just the part of A
you want to inherit; it's a so-called "code smell", specifically
Refused Bequest I believe.

See this link into Fowler's Refactoring for more info on Refused
Bequest and the other code smells:
http://books.google.com/books?id=1Ms...um=3&ct=result

Cheers,
Chris
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