Multiple-in-One Objects with Python

[John (J5) Palmieri]

In the old bindings we used to have a concept of Object Trees (one
object handling a all sub objects).  I don't know if this is the best
way to go in the python bindings.  What might be better is to allow the
ability to register a class for all sub objects in an object path and
then have the object instantiated when that object is called.  This
would be a better paradigm if we ever add state to the bus.  Life cycle
would be a problem that would have to be addressed though.  Patches are
welcome as I won't have much time to work on this.


On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 14:54 -0700, Theodore Reed wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm developing a replacement for mserv, utilizing python, dbus,
> gstreamer and sqlobject. Work is progressing steadily (although
> slowly... full-time job and all that), but now I have a question that
> should be answered before I move much further with the database stuff.
> 
> As it stands, I have a single DBus object which allows for simple
> manipulation of the player. I also plan to have another object that
> allows queries and manipulation of the database. I had the idea to
> allow access to database objects as (for
> example) /us/surreality/Tunara/Database/SongX, where X is the id of
> the song in the database. It would, however, be considerably wasteful
> to have a Python object around for each song in the database, which
> leads me to ask the following question:
> 
> Is it possible, with dbus, to implement one object which acts as
> multiple objects, and the exact object is known when the method is
> called? If not, is this planned? I can't imagine the Gnumeric guys
> would want to implement a separate object for each cell in a
> spreadsheet either. It seems that it should be possible, on some
> level, but it appears that there's no way to do it with the Python
> bindings.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- Ted Reed
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