API Reference

class chide.Collection(mapping)

A collection of attributes to use to make sample objects.

Parameters:mapping – A dictionary mapping object types to a dictionary of attributes to make a sample object of that type.

attributes(type_, **attrs)

Make a sample object of the specified type_ using the default attributes for that type in this Collection.

The attrs mapping will be overlayed onto the sample attributes before being used with type_ to instantiate and return a new sample object.

make(type_, **attrs)

Make the attributes for a sample object of the specified type_ using the default attributes for that type in this Collection.

The attrs mapping will be overlayed onto the sample attributes and returned as a dict.

class chide.Set(collection, identify=None)

A collection of sample objects where only one object with a given identity may exist at one time.

Parameters:

• collection – The Collection instance used to create sample objects when necessary.
• identify –

  A callable that takes type_ and attrs parameters.

  type_, usually a class, is the type of the sample object being requested.

  attrs is a dict of the attributes being requested for the sample object to have.

  The callable should return a hashable value that indicates the identity to use for the requested sample object. For each unique hashable value, only one sample object will be instantiated and returned each time a sample is requested where this callable returns the given identity.

  None may be returned to indicate that a new object should always be returned for the provided parameters.

get(type_, **attrs)

Return an appropriate sample object of the specified type_.

The attrs mapping will be overlaid onto the sample attributes found in this set’s Collection before checking if an appropriate sample object already exists in the set.

If one exists, it is returned. If not, one is created using this set’s Collection, added to the set and then returned.

identify = None

You may also want to subclass Set and implement an identify() method, see chide.sqlalchemy.Set for an example.