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#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
A lightweight component system for IPython.
Authors:
* Brian Granger
* Fernando Perez
"""
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 The IPython Development Team
#
# Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in
# the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Imports
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
from copy import deepcopy
import datetime
from weakref import WeakValueDictionary
from IPython.utils.importstring import import_item
from IPython.config.loader import Config
from IPython.utils.traitlets import (
HasTraits, MetaHasTraits, Instance, This
)
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Helper classes for Components
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
class ComponentError(Exception):
pass
class MetaComponentTracker(type):
"""A metaclass that tracks instances of Components and its subclasses."""
def __init__(cls, name, bases, d):
super(MetaComponentTracker, cls).__init__(name, bases, d)
cls.__instance_refs = WeakValueDictionary()
cls.__numcreated = 0
def __call__(cls, *args, **kw):
"""Called when a class is called (instantiated)!!!
When a Component or subclass is instantiated, this is called and
the instance is saved in a WeakValueDictionary for tracking.
"""
instance = cls.__new__(cls, *args, **kw)
# Register the instance before __init__ is called so get_instances
# works inside __init__ methods!
indices = cls.register_instance(instance)
# This is in a try/except because of the __init__ method fails, the
# instance is discarded and shouldn't be tracked.
try:
if isinstance(instance, cls):
cls.__init__(instance, *args, **kw)
except:
# Unregister the instance because __init__ failed!
cls.unregister_instances(indices)
raise
else:
return instance
def register_instance(cls, instance):
"""Register instance with cls and its subclasses."""
# indices is a list of the keys used to register the instance
# with. This list is needed if the instance needs to be unregistered.
indices = []
for c in cls.__mro__:
if issubclass(cls, c) and issubclass(c, Component):
c.__numcreated += 1
indices.append(c.__numcreated)
c.__instance_refs[c.__numcreated] = instance
else:
break
return indices
def unregister_instances(cls, indices):
"""Unregister instance with cls and its subclasses."""
for c, index in zip(cls.__mro__, indices):
try:
del c.__instance_refs[index]
except KeyError:
pass
def clear_instances(cls):
"""Clear all instances tracked by cls."""
cls.__instance_refs.clear()
cls.__numcreated = 0
def get_instances(cls, name=None, root=None, klass=None):
"""Get all instances of cls and its subclasses.
Parameters
----------
name : str
Limit to components with this name.
root : Component or subclass
Limit to components having this root.
klass : class or str
Limits to instances of the class or its subclasses. If a str
is given ut must be in the form 'foo.bar.MyClass'. The str
form of this argument is useful for forward declarations.
"""
if klass is not None:
if isinstance(klass, basestring):
klass = import_item(klass)
# Limit search to instances of klass for performance
if issubclass(klass, Component):
return klass.get_instances(name=name, root=root)
instances = cls.__instance_refs.values()
if name is not None:
instances = [i for i in instances if i.name == name]
if klass is not None:
instances = [i for i in instances if isinstance(i, klass)]
if root is not None:
instances = [i for i in instances if i.root == root]
return instances
def get_instances_by_condition(cls, call, name=None, root=None,
klass=None):
"""Get all instances of cls, i such that call(i)==True.
This also takes the ``name`` and ``root`` and ``classname``
arguments of :meth:`get_instance`
"""
return [i for i in cls.get_instances(name, root, klass) if call(i)]
def masquerade_as(instance, cls):
"""Let instance masquerade as an instance of cls.
Sometimes, such as in testing code, it is useful to let a class
masquerade as another. Python, being duck typed, allows this by
default. But, instances of components are tracked by their class type.
After calling this, ``cls.get_instances()`` will return ``instance``. This
does not, however, cause ``isinstance(instance, cls)`` to return ``True``.
Parameters
----------
instance : an instance of a Component or Component subclass
The instance that will pretend to be a cls.
cls : subclass of Component
The Component subclass that instance will pretend to be.
"""
cls.register_instance(instance)
class __ComponentNameGenerator(object):
"""A Singleton to generate unique component names."""
def __init__(self, prefix):
self.prefix = prefix
self.i = 0
def __call__(self):
count = self.i
self.i += 1
return "%s%s" % (self.prefix, count)
ComponentNameGenerator = __ComponentNameGenerator('ipython.component')
class MetaComponent(MetaHasTraits, MetaComponentTracker):
pass
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Component implementation
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
class Component(HasTraits):
__metaclass__ = MetaComponent
# Traits are fun!
config = Instance(Config,(),{})
parent = This()
root = This()
created = None
def __init__(self, parent, name=None, config=None):
"""Create a component given a parent and possibly and name and config.
Parameters
----------
parent : Component subclass
The parent in the component graph. The parent is used
to get the root of the component graph.
name : str
The unique name of the component. If empty, then a unique
one will be autogenerated.
config : Config
If this is empty, self.config = parent.config, otherwise
self.config = config and root.config is ignored. This argument
should only be used to *override* the automatic inheritance of
parent.config. If a caller wants to modify parent.config
(not override), the caller should make a copy and change
attributes and then pass the copy to this argument.
Notes
-----
Subclasses of Component must call the :meth:`__init__` method of
:class:`Component` *before* doing anything else and using
:func:`super`::
class MyComponent(Component):
def __init__(self, parent, name=None, config=None):
super(MyComponent, self).__init__(parent, name, config)
# Then any other code you need to finish initialization.
This ensures that the :attr:`parent`, :attr:`name` and :attr:`config`
attributes are handled properly.
"""
super(Component, self).__init__()
self._children = []
if name is None:
self.name = ComponentNameGenerator()
else:
self.name = name
self.root = self # This is the default, it is set when parent is set
self.parent = parent
if config is not None:
self.config = config
# We used to deepcopy, but for now we are trying to just save
# by reference. This *could* have side effects as all components
# will share config. In fact, I did find such a side effect in
# _config_changed below. If a config attribute value was a mutable type
# all instances of a component were getting the same copy, effectively
# making that a class attribute.
# self.config = deepcopy(config)
else:
if self.parent is not None:
self.config = self.parent.config
# We used to deepcopy, but for now we are trying to just save
# by reference. This *could* have side effects as all components
# will share config. In fact, I did find such a side effect in
# _config_changed below. If a config attribute value was a mutable type
# all instances of a component were getting the same copy, effectively
# making that a class attribute.
# self.config = deepcopy(self.parent.config)
self.created = datetime.datetime.now()
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Static trait notifiations
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _parent_changed(self, name, old, new):
if old is not None:
old._remove_child(self)
if new is not None:
new._add_child(self)
if new is None:
self.root = self
else:
self.root = new.root
def _root_changed(self, name, old, new):
if self.parent is None:
if not (new is self):
raise ComponentError("Root not self, but parent is None.")
else:
if not self.parent.root is new:
raise ComponentError("Error in setting the root attribute: "
"root != parent.root")
def _config_changed(self, name, old, new):
"""Update all the class traits having ``config=True`` as metadata.
For any class trait with a ``config`` metadata attribute that is
``True``, we update the trait with the value of the corresponding
config entry.
"""
# Get all traits with a config metadata entry that is True
traits = self.traits(config=True)
# We auto-load config section for this class as well as any parent
# classes that are Component subclasses. This starts with Component
# and works down the mro loading the config for each section.
section_names = [cls.__name__ for cls in \
reversed(self.__class__.__mro__) if
issubclass(cls, Component) and issubclass(self.__class__, cls)]
for sname in section_names:
# Don't do a blind getattr as that would cause the config to
# dynamically create the section with name self.__class__.__name__.
if new._has_section(sname):
my_config = new[sname]
for k, v in traits.items():
# Don't allow traitlets with config=True to start with
# uppercase. Otherwise, they are confused with Config
# subsections. But, developers shouldn't have uppercase
# attributes anyways! (PEP 6)
if k[0].upper()==k[0] and not k.startswith('_'):
raise ComponentError('Component traitlets with '
'config=True must start with a lowercase so they are '
'not confused with Config subsections: %s.%s' % \
(self.__class__.__name__, k))
try:
# Here we grab the value from the config
# If k has the naming convention of a config
# section, it will be auto created.
config_value = my_config[k]
except KeyError:
pass
else:
# print "Setting %s.%s from %s.%s=%r" % \
# (self.__class__.__name__,k,sname,k,config_value)
# We have to do a deepcopy here if we don't deepcopy the entire
# config object. If we don't, a mutable config_value will be
# shared by all instances, effectively making it a class attribute.
setattr(self, k, deepcopy(config_value))
@property
def children(self):
"""A list of all my child components."""
return self._children
def _remove_child(self, child):
"""A private method for removing children components."""
if child in self._children:
index = self._children.index(child)
del self._children[index]
def _add_child(self, child):
"""A private method for adding children components."""
if child not in self._children:
self._children.append(child)
def __repr__(self):
return "<%s('%s')>" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.name)