# -*- test-case-name: twisted.test.test_reflector -*- # Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Twisted Matrix Laboratories. # See LICENSE for details. """ A (R)elational (O)bject (W)rapper. This is an extremely thin wrapper. Maintainer: U{Dave Peticolas} """ from twisted.enterprise.util import DBError, NOQUOTE, getKeyColumn, dbTypeMap class RowObject: """I represent a row in a table in a relational database. My class is "populated" by a Reflector object. After I am populated, instances of me are able to interact with a particular database table. You should use a class derived from this class for each database table. reflector.loadObjectsFrom() is used to create sets of instance of objects of this class from database tables. Once created, the "key column" attributes cannot be changed. Class Attributes that users must supply: rowKeyColumns # list of key columns in form: [(columnName, typeName)] rowTableName # name of database table rowColumns # list of the columns in the table with the correct # case.this will be used to create member variables. rowFactoryMethod # method to create an instance of this class. # HACK: must be in a list!!! [factoryMethod] (optional) rowForeignKeys # keys to other tables (optional) """ populated = 0 # set on the class when the class is "populated" with SQL dirty = 0 # set on an instance when the instance is out-of-sync with the database def assignKeyAttr(self, attrName, value): """Assign to a key attribute. This cannot be done through normal means to protect changing keys of db objects. """ found = 0 for keyColumn, type in self.rowKeyColumns: if keyColumn == attrName: found = 1 if not found: raise DBError("%s is not a key columns." % attrName) self.__dict__[attrName] = value def findAttribute(self, attrName): """Find an attribute by caseless name. """ for attr, type in self.rowColumns: if attr.lower() == attrName.lower(): return getattr(self, attr) raise DBError("Unable to find attribute %s" % attrName) def __setattr__(self, name, value): """Special setattr to prevent changing of key values. """ # build where clause if getKeyColumn(self.__class__, name): raise DBError("cannot assign value <%s> to key column attribute <%s> of RowObject class" % (value,name)) if name in self.rowColumns: if value != self.__dict__.get(name,None) and not self.dirty: self.setDirty(1) self.__dict__[name] = value def createDefaultAttributes(self): """Populate instance with default attributes. This is used when creating a new instance NOT from the database. """ for attr in self.rowColumns: if getKeyColumn(self.__class__, attr): continue for column, ctype, typeid in self.dbColumns: if column.lower(column) == attr.lower(): q = dbTypeMap.get(ctype, None) if q == NOQUOTE: setattr(self, attr, 0) else: setattr(self, attr, "") def setDirty(self, flag): """Use this to set the 'dirty' flag. (note: this avoids infinite recursion in __setattr__, and prevents the 'dirty' flag ) """ self.__dict__["dirty"] = flag def getKeyTuple(self): keys = [] keys.append(self.rowTableName) for keyName, keyType in self.rowKeyColumns: keys.append( getattr(self, keyName) ) return tuple(keys) __all__ = ['RowObject']