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parent-child object design question

manstey manstey at csu.edu.au
Tue Jan 30 01:02:45 EST 2007 
Hi,

I am having trouble designing my classes.

I have two classes. The first one wraps around an old-style class 
called oref


Class CacheClass(object):
    def __init__(self, obj):
        self.__data = obj
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        return getattr(self.__data, attr)

The second class is much the same, also wrapping, but has some 
attributes.

class CacheProperty(object):
    def __init__(self, obj, dicProperties={}):
        self.__data = obj
        lisProperties=[]
        for key, val in dicProperties.iteritems():
            setattr(self, key, val)
            lisProperties.append(key)
        self.Properties = lisProperties
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        return getattr(self.__data, attr)

Here is my code:

>>> MyClass = CacheClass(oref)
>>> MyProperty = CacheProperty(oref2,{'Name':'Surname', 'Value':'Peter'})
>>> setattr(MyClass,MyProperty.Name,MyProperty)

Now, the problem is that I want a method MyClass.MyProperty.Save() to 
save the value of MyClass.MyProperty to the database backend on disk, 
but the code for this is part of the wrapped oref code, and thus is 
invoked only by MyClass.set(MyProperty.Name,MyProperty.Value).

How can I access this method inside the MyProperty class?

I hope this is clear!

regard,s
matthew
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