Generate and resolve paths to to objects.
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ObjectPath
This package contains two things:
the z3c.objpath.interfaces.IObjectPath interface.
some helper functions to construct (relative) object paths, in z3c.objpath.path.
The idea is that a particular application can implement a utility that fulfills the IObjectPath interface, so that it is possible to construct paths to objects in a uniform way. The implementation may be done with zope.traversing, but in some cases you want application-specific object paths. In this case, the functions in z3c.objpath.path might be useful.
We’ll have a simple item:
>>> class Item(object): ... __name__ = None ... __parent__ = None ... def __repr__(self): ... return '<Item %s>' % self.__name__
Let’s create a simple container-like object:
>>> class Container(Item): ... def __init__(self): ... self._d = {} ... def __setitem__(self, name, obj): ... self._d[name] = obj ... obj.__name__ = name ... obj.__parent__ = self ... def __getitem__(self, name): ... return self._d[name] ... def __repr__(self): ... return '<Container %s>' % self.__name__
Now let’s create a structure:
>>> root = Container() >>> root.__name__ = 'root' >>> data = root['data'] = Container() >>> a = data['a'] = Container() >>> b = data['b'] = Container() >>> c = data['c'] = Item() >>> d = a['d'] = Item() >>> e = a['e'] = Container() >>> f = e['f'] = Item() >>> g = b['g'] = Item()
We will now exercise two functions, path and resolve, which are inverses of each other:
>>> from z3c.objpath import path, resolve
We can create a path to a from root:
>>> path(root, a) '/root/data/a'
We can also resolve it again:
>>> resolve(root, '/root/data/a') <Container a>
We can also create a path to a from data:
>>> path(data, a) '/data/a'
And resolve it again:
>>> resolve(data, '/data/a') <Container a>
We can make a deeper path:
>>> path(root, f) '/root/data/a/e/f'
And resolve it:
>>> resolve(root, '/root/data/a/e/f') <Item f>
The path ‘/’ leads to the root object:
>>> resolve(root, '/') <Container root>
We get an error if we cannot construct a path:
>>> path(e, a) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: Cannot create path for <Container a>
We also get an error if we cannot resolve a path:
>>> resolve(root, '/root/data/a/f/e') Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: Cannot resolve path /root/data/a/f/e
z3c.objpath changes
2.0 (2023-08-21)
Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6.
1.3 (2022-12-02)
Add support for Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11.
1.2 (2018-06-14)
Add support for Python 3.5, 3.6, PyPy and PyPy3.
1.1 (2012-10-13)
Add name space declaration for z3c.
Added a test extra, as test require zope.testing.
1.0 (2008-04-15)
Initial public release.
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