<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'>Hi Curtis, > Robert Rawlins wrote: > > Hello Chaps, > > > > I've got a few classes in a dbus library which I want to add additional > > functionality too and wanted to get your opinions on the best way to do > > this. Generally when working with standard Python classes I would simply > > inherit from the base class, however, I wonder if this is possible from > > a dbus object? or should I be looking at creating proxy objects or using > > a decorator pattern? > > The limitation I ran into is that the published methods are all > decorated, so you can't replace them directly on an inherited model. > I've no idea what would happen if you tried and decorated them with the > same interface. > > We work around this by making the exposed methods just call do_FOO > internally. > > -- > Curtis Maloney > <A href="mailto:cmaloney@cardgate.net">cmaloney@cardgate.net</A> Thanks for getting back to me about this. I ended up, for the moment just choosing to go for Composition over Inheritance, I appreciate that its not really a best practice in this scenario and isn't the 'proper' way to achieve it but it works for me.   I now just create an instance of the dbus object in my class init proceedure and have a getRealObject() method which returns the composed dbus object for any calls I need to make on the bus.   Cheers Curtis.   Robert <hr />Everything in one place. <a href='http://www.windowslive.co.uk/get-live' target='_new'>All new Windows Live!</a></body> </html>