Transfer undefined class methods to attribute's method.

[Maarten van Reeuwijk]

Hello,

Maybe I was a little too detailed in my previous post [same title]. I can
boil down my problem to this: say I have a class A that I encapsulate with
a class Proxy. Now I just want to override and add some functionality (see
my other post why). All functionality not defined in the Proxy class should
be delegated (I can't use inheritance, see other post). It should be
possible to achieve this using Python's great introspection possibilities,
but I can't find out how. Any help would be really appreciated!

TIA, Maarten

Example (class A and Proxy):

class A:
def __init__(self):
pass

def methodA(self):
pass

def methodB(self):
pass

def methodC(self):
pass

class Proxy:
def __init__(self):
self.a = A()

# maybe scan the methods in A and not in this class?????
# setup a hook for undefined methods?

def methodA(self):
# what I DON'T want:
return self.a.methodA()
# and this for every method...
# maybe something like this?
def process_unknownmethod(self, method, args):
return self.a.method(args)

P = Proxy()
P.methodA()
P.methodC()

output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "group.py", line 36, in ?
P.methodC()

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Maarten van Reeuwijk Thermal and Fluids Sciences
Phd student dept. of Multiscale Physics
www.ws.tn.tudelft.nl Delft University of Technology

[anton muhin]

Maarten van Reeuwijk wrote:

Hello,

Maybe I was a little too detailed in my previous post [same title]. I can
boil down my problem to this: say I have a class A that I encapsulate with
a class Proxy. Now I just want to override and add some functionality (see
my other post why). All functionality not defined in the Proxy class should
be delegated (I can't use inheritance, see other post). It should be
possible to achieve this using Python's great introspection possibilities,
but I can't find out how. Any help would be really appreciated!

TIA, Maarten

Example (class A and Proxy):

class A:
def __init__(self):
pass

def methodA(self):
pass

def methodB(self):
pass

def methodC(self):
pass

class Proxy:
def __init__(self):
self.a = A()

# maybe scan the methods in A and not in this class?????
# setup a hook for undefined methods?

def methodA(self):
# what I DON'T want:
return self.a.methodA()
# and this for every method...
# maybe something like this?
def process_unknownmethod(self, method, args):
return self.a.method(args)

P = Proxy()
P.methodA()
P.methodC()

output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "group.py", line 36, in ?
P.methodC()

This might help (almost untested):

class Proxy(object):
def __init__(self, obj):
self.obj_ = obj

def __getattr__(self, name):
return getattr(self.obj_, name)

class Foo(object):
def methodA(self):
return 'Foo.methodA'

def methodB(self):
return 'Foo.methodB'

foo = Foo()
p = Proxy(foo)

print p.methodA()
print p.methodB()

regards,
anton.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> Maybe I was a little too detailed in my previous post [same title]. I can

boil down my problem to this: say I have a class A that I encapsulate with
a class Proxy. Now I just want to override and add some functionality (see
my other post why). All functionality not defined in the Proxy class
should be delegated (I can't use inheritance, see other post). It should
be possible to achieve this using Python's great introspection
possibilities, but I can't find out how. Any help would be really
appreciated!

Why don't you just scan the underlying object for all methods it has (using
the objects __dict__, filtering with type method) and add these methods on
your proxy when there exists no method of the same name (using the proyies
dict)? That would eliminate the need of a general-purpose method call
interception and do what you want.

I'm a little bit too lazy right now create a working example, but I think
you should be able to come up with your own in no time - if not, ask again
(and someone more enlightened might answer, or I get down on my a** and
write something... :))

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch

[Peter Otten]

Maarten van Reeuwijk wrote:

Hello,

Maybe I was a little too detailed in my previous post [same title]. I can
boil down my problem to this: say I have a class A that I encapsulate with
a class Proxy. Now I just want to override and add some functionality (see
my other post why). All functionality not defined in the Proxy class
should be delegated (I can't use inheritance, see other post). It should
be possible to achieve this using Python's great introspection
possibilities, but I can't find out how. Any help would be really
appreciated!

TIA, Maarten

Example (class A and Proxy):

class A:
def __init__(self):
pass

def methodA(self):
pass

def methodB(self):
pass

def methodC(self):
pass

class Proxy:
def __init__(self):
self.a = A()

# maybe scan the methods in A and not in this class?????
# setup a hook for undefined methods?

def methodA(self):
# what I DON'T want:
return self.a.methodA()
# and this for every method...
# maybe something like this?
def process_unknownmethod(self, method, args):
return self.a.method(args)

P = Proxy()
P.methodA()
P.methodC()

output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "group.py", line 36, in ?
P.methodC()

The __getattr__() method could be helpful for your problem. It's calld for
every missing attribute - not just methods. If you want to set attributes,
there's a corresponding __setattr__() method which is called for *every*
attribute.

Adopting your example:

class A:
def methodA(self):
print "original A"

def methodB(self):
print "original B"
class Proxy:
def __init__(self, wrapped):
self._wrapped = wrapped

def methodA(self):
print "replacement A, internally calling",
return self._wrapped.methodA()

def __getattr__(self, name):
return getattr(self._wrapped, name)

a = A()
p = Proxy(a)
p.methodA()
p.methodB()
Peter

[Maarten van Reeuwijk]

That does the trick!

Thanks guys,

Maarten
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================================================== =================
Maarten van Reeuwijk Thermal and Fluids Sciences
Phd student dept. of Multiscale Physics
www.ws.tn.tudelft.nl Delft University of Technology