Thanks for the response. I agree that in this case writing a wrapper class and adding additional operations per my need is the way to go.
Thanks, Subhajit On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Tobias Ivarsson < [email protected]> wrote: > The GraphDatabase class in the neo4j Python library is extended behind the > scenes the first time it is instantiated, this is what enables the backend > to be loaded lazily. This has the side effect that it's not possible to > create your own subclasses of it. > > I could probably modify it to work with subclasses, but I don't really see > a > use case for that. Wouldn't it be easier and cleaner for you to implement > your added functionality as a wrapping library? > > Cheers, > Tobias > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Subhajit Ghosh > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to create a class in Python which will inherit from > > neo4j.GraphDatabase. The reason why i am doing so is i want to do some > > validations when adding a node to the graph and also add several utility > > methods for graph traversals. However the inheritance class does not seem > > to > > work. I am not able to call the subclass's methods. > > > > import neo4j > > > > class Test(neo4j.GraphDatabase): > > dummy = 1 > > n = Test("testdb") > > > > print(n.__class__) # returns <class 'neo4j._core.GraphDatabase'> > > > > Am i doing something wrong here? > > > > For now, I am delegating all calls to a embedded GraphDatabase object in > my > > class. But this makes the code verbose. > > Please suggest. > > > > Thanks, > > Subhajit > > _______________________________________________ > > Neo mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > > > > > -- > Tobias Ivarsson <[email protected]> > Hacker, Neo Technology > www.neotechnology.com > Cellphone: +46 706 534857 > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
