IPython/html/widgets/widget_link.py

"""Link and DirectionalLink classes.

Represents a button in the frontend using a widget.  Allows user to listen for
click events on the button and trigger backend code when the clicks are fired.
"""
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# Copyright (c) 2013, the IPython Development Team.
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# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
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# The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
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# Imports
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from .widget import Widget
from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode, Tuple, Any

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# Classes
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class Link(Widget):
    """Link Widget"""
    _model_name = Unicode('LinkModel', sync=True)
    widgets = Tuple(sync=True, allow_none=False)

    def __init__(self, widgets=(), **kwargs):
        kwargs['widgets'] = widgets
        super(Link, self).__init__(**kwargs)


def link(*args):
    return Link(widgets=args)


class DirectionalLink(Widget):
    """Directional Link Widget"""
    _model_name = Unicode('DirectionalLinkModel', sync=True)
    targets = Any(sync=True)
    source = Tuple(sync=True)

    # Does not quite behave like other widgets but reproduces
    # the behavior of IPython.utils.traitlets.directional_link
    def __init__(self, source, targets=(), **kwargs):
        kwargs['source'] = source
        kwargs['targets'] = targets
        super(DirectionalLink, self).__init__(**kwargs)


def dlink(source, *targets):
    return DirectionalLink(source, targets)