On Feb 8, 2008 6:34 PM, Alexandre da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The Entity code won't change much in the future (except possibly to > > react on a SQLAlchemy change), as most of the functionality is in > > EntityMeta. Besides, this way you can customize your base class to > > contain exactly the methods you want and only those (this is what I do > > in my projects using Elixir). > > > To sum it up, people here already suggested the two options you have > > as of now: either multiple inheritance or providing your own base > > class by using the metaclass yourself. > well, but I will need to create(copy and paste) the methods of Entity
Indeed, but I personally don't find this to be an important problem. > > At some point, I wanted to be able to simply inherit from any class, > > but that's not possible without marking the classes (one way or > > another) which don't need to create a table. What I had in mind is > > implementing some sort of "abstract" inheritance, which should > > probably do what you want, but I haven't had time yet to do it (see > > http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/ticket/15). Feel free to work on it if > > you want ;-). It shouldn't be too hard, but it involves some tinkering > > at different places of the code (mostly in entity.py). > hum, interesting...., maybe if we create a middle class should work, > not? > > example: > > EntityBase(object): > move all methods from Entity to here. > .... > > Entity(EntityBase): > __metaclass__=EntityMeta > > then who wants to get just the funcionalities from Entity and create > their own base class may choice if want the actual EntityBase features > or want to write from beginning. This is an interesting option I didn't think about. I'd like to hear opinions from other people about this as I'm not sure if it's worth it: are there many persons in your case (I don't think there are -- and those who are would probably be satisfied by the "abstract" concept implementation which will need to be done anyway), and is there a (relevant) impact (in terms of efficiency or mem usage) to have one more level of inheritance for all objects? -- Gaëtan de Menten http://openhex.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SQLElixir" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlelixir?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
