> It could be much harder than it originally sounds.
> Consider that most names don't just have one part, but dotted notation:
> self.pool.get('account.invoice')
> Then, we should create an intermediate 'account' object that would resolve the
> 'invoice' one. When it comes to the structuring of that dotted notation (does
> 'invoice' belong to the 'account' module? ), things may get even more messy..
More than messy, it would be quite disgusting and — I think — pretty unpythonic
(with magical objects appearing out of nowhere all over the place).
A better (in my opinion) way would be to see the possibility of migrating to
using addons & classes as "real" python objects: instead of
self.pool.get('account.invoice'), ``from account import invoice`` and get your
invoice instances from there.
This would require quite a bit of change in the way things are instantiated and
(especially) the way objects are named (see the account_account_template class
in the account module in the account addon, which would lead to ``from
account.account import account_account_template``, and I know there are much
worse cases in the codebase…) but I believe it would make the code clearer,
actually express dependencies between modules (letting everybody use standard
python static-checking tools such as pychecker or IDEs correctly — on that
front Jetbrains has just released the first EAP for PyCharm) and might even
make easier (or at least possible) the introduction of ``unittest`` in the long
run.
It would also make namespacing clearer e.g. just import "account" if you need
many classes from there, and you can refer to them as account.whatever instead
of having to self.pool.get each and every one of them.
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