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Clever way to use Python __call__ and __getattr__ to create web APIs that can map directly (dynamically) to actual API
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class MyCallable(object): | |
def __init__(self, urlparts, callable): | |
self.urlparts = urlparts | |
self.callable = callable | |
def __call__(self, **kwargs): | |
print kwargs | |
print self.urlparts | |
def __getattr__(self, name): | |
# Return a callable object of this same type so that you can just keep | |
# chaining together calls and just adding that missing attribute to the | |
# arguments | |
return self.callable(self.urlparts + name, self.callable) | |
class Service(MyCallable): | |
pass | |
x = Service('a', MyCallable) | |
x.path.path1() | |
x.path.path1.path2() |
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