Source code for smqtk.utils.configurable_interface

import abc
import inspect
import types
import six

from smqtk.utils import merge_dict


[docs]@six.add_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta) class Configurable (object): """ Interface for objects that should be configurable via a configuration dictionary consisting of JSON types. """
[docs] @classmethod def get_default_config(cls): """ Generate and return a default configuration dictionary for this class. This will be primarily used for generating what the configuration dictionary would look like for this class without instantiating it. By default, we observe what this class's constructor takes as arguments, turning those argument names into configuration dictionary keys. If any of those arguments have defaults, we will add those values into the configuration dictionary appropriately. The dictionary returned should only contain JSON compliant value types. It is not be guaranteed that the configuration dictionary returned from this method is valid for construction of an instance of this class. :return: Default configuration dictionary for the class. :rtype: dict >>> class SimpleConfig(Configurable): ... def __init__(self, a=1, b='foo'): ... self.a = a ... self.b = b ... def get_config(self): ... return {'a': self.a, 'b': self.b} >>> self = SimpleConfig() >>> config = self.get_default_config() >>> assert config == {'a': 1, 'b': 'foo'} """ if isinstance(cls.__init__, (types.MethodType, types.FunctionType)): argspec = inspect.getargspec(cls.__init__) # Ignores potential *args or **kwargs present params = argspec.args[1:] # skipping ``self`` arg num_params = len(params) if argspec.defaults: num_defaults = len(argspec.defaults) vals = ((None,) * (num_params - num_defaults) + argspec.defaults) else: vals = (None,) * num_params return dict(zip(params, vals)) # No constructor explicitly defined on this class return {}
[docs] @classmethod def from_config(cls, config_dict, merge_default=True): """ Instantiate a new instance of this class given the configuration JSON-compliant dictionary encapsulating initialization arguments. This method should not be called via super unless an instance of the class is desired. :param config_dict: JSON compliant dictionary encapsulating a configuration. :type config_dict: dict :param merge_default: Merge the given configuration on top of the default provided by ``get_default_config``. :type merge_default: bool :return: Constructed instance from the provided config. :rtype: Configurable """ # The simple case is that the class doesn't require any special # parameters other than those that can be provided via the JSON # specification, which we cover here. If an implementation needs # something more special, they can override this function. if merge_default: config_dict = merge_dict(cls.get_default_config(), config_dict) return cls(**config_dict)
[docs] @abc.abstractmethod def get_config(self): """ Return a JSON-compliant dictionary that could be passed to this class's ``from_config`` method to produce an instance with identical configuration. In the common case, this involves naming the keys of the dictionary based on the initialization argument names as if it were to be passed to the constructor via dictionary expansion. :return: JSON type compliant configuration dictionary. :rtype: dict """