Hello I have the following situation:
I defined the following code to handle the create all the classes in the chain:
class BusinessDocument():
@staticmethod
def get_class(doc_type):
switch = {
'MasterData': MasterData,
'Transactional': Transactional
}
func = switch.get(doc_type, lambda: "Invalid Noun Type")
return func()
def __init__(self, doc_id, location, doc_type):
self.doc_id = doc_id
self.location = location
self.doc_type = doc_type
pass
@property
def get_location(self):
return self.location
@property
def get_doc_id(self):
return self.doc_id
class MasterData(BusinessDocument):
def __init__(self, doc_id, location):
BusinessDocument.__init__(self, doc_id, location, 'MasterData')
class Transactional(BusinessDocument):
def __init__(self, doc_id, location):
BusinessDocument.__init__(self, doc_id, location, 'Transactional')
class NounClass():
@staticmethod
def get_class(doc_name, doc_type):
return type(doc_name, (BusinessDocument.get_class(doc_type),
BusinessDocument, ),dict.fromkeys(['doc_id', 'location']))
Then at run time when I get the doc_name and I try to create a new class. At this point I may not have the required arguments doc_id and location but I need to class type.
invoice_cls = NounClass.get_class('Invoice', 'Transactional')
I get the following error:
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TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-10-cb774746875a> in <module>
----> 1 invoice_cls = NounClass.get_class('Invoice', 'Transactional')
<ipython-input-9-aa5e0b316ed1> in get_class(doc_name, doc_type)
35 @staticmethod
36 def get_class(doc_name, doc_type):
---> 37 return type(doc_name, (BusinessDocument.get_class(doc_type),
38 BusinessDocument, ),dict.fromkeys(['doc_id', 'location']))
<ipython-input-9-aa5e0b316ed1> in get_class(doc_type)
7 }
8 func = switch.get(doc_type, lambda: "Invalid Noun Type")
----> 9 return func()
10
11 def __init__(self, doc_id, location, doc_type):
TypeError: __init__() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'doc_id' and 'location'
I understand that the reason for it is because the __init__() will be called during the class instantiation, but I thought that type would be only creating a new type and not instantiate one right away. So my question is if is there a way to defer the instantiation of the instance at this time.
Thank you in advance for any help and tips on this.
--MD.
The initalization occurs on line 9:
return func()
I assume you want to return a class object, so remove those parantheses.
Also func is misleding, I've changed it to cls:
def get_class(doc_type):
switch = {
'MasterData': MasterData,
'Transactional': Transactional
}
cls = switch.get(doc_type, lambda: "Invalid Noun Type")
return cls