Small implementation of Roles
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Pythonic implementation of the DCI (Data Context Interaction) pattern (http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html).
The difference with mixins is that this role is applied only to the subject instance, not to the subject class (alas, a new class is constructed).
Roles can be applied and revoked. Multiple roles can be applied to an instance. Revocation can happen in any particular order.
As a basic example, consider some domain class:
>>> from roles import RoleType >>> class DomainClass(object): ... def __init__(self, a=3): ... self.a = a >>> instance = DomainClass()
The instance should participate in a collaboration in which it fulfills a particular role:
>>> class MyRole(object): ... __metaclass__ = RoleType ... def rolefunc(self): ... return self.a
>>> inrole = MyRole(instance) >>> inrole # doctest: +ELLIPSIS <__main__.DomainClass+MyRole object at 0x...> >>> isinstance(inrole, DomainClass) True
Now the inrole instance can be invoked with the rolefunc() method as if it was the DomainClass’ one:
>>> inrole.rolefunc() 3
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