I'm trying to implement a wrapper around a redis database that does some bookkeeping, and I thought about using descriptors. I have an object with a bunch of fields: frames, failures, etc., and I need to be able to get, set, and increment the field as needed. I've tried to implement an Int-Like descriptor:
class IntType(object):
def __get__(self,instance,owner):
# issue a GET database command
return db.get(my_val)
def __set__(self,instance,val):
# issue a SET database command
db.set(instance.name,val)
def increment(self,instance,count):
# issue an INCRBY database command
db.hincrby(instance.name,count)
class Stream:
_prefix = 'stream'
frames = IntType()
failures = IntType()
uuid = StringType()
s = Stream()
s.frames.increment(1) # float' object has no attribute 'increment'
Is seems like I can't access the increment() method in my descriptor. I can't have increment be defined in the object that the __get__ returns. This would require an additional db query if all I want to do is increment! I also don't want increment() on the Stream class, as later on when I want to have additional fields like strings or sets in Stream, then I'd need to type check the heck out of everything.