#!/usr/bin/env python

# ###########################################################################
#
# This file is part of Taurus
#
# http://taurus-scada.org
#
# Copyright 2011 CELLS / ALBA Synchrotron, Bellaterra, Spain
#
# Taurus is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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#
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
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#
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"""This module contains the base Object class for taurus.
"""

__all__ = ["Object"]

__docformat__ = "restructuredtext"


class Object(object):
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def call__init__(self, klass, *args, **kw):
        """Method to be called from subclasses to call superclass corresponding
        __init__ method. This method ensures that classes from diamond like
        class hierarquies don't call their super classes __init__ more than
        once.
        """

        if "inited_class_list" not in self.__dict__:
            self.inited_class_list = []

        if klass not in self.inited_class_list:
            self.inited_class_list.append(klass)
            klass.__init__(self, *args, **kw)

    def call__init__wo_kw(self, klass, *args):
        """
        Same as call__init__ but without keyword arguments because PyQt4 does
        not support them.
        """

        if "inited_class_list" not in self.__dict__:
            self.inited_class_list = []

        if klass not in self.inited_class_list:
            self.inited_class_list.append(klass)
            klass.__init__(self, *args)

    def getAttrDict(self):
        attr = dict(self.__dict__)
        if "inited_class_list" in attr:
            del attr["inited_class_list"]
        return attr

    def updateAttrDict(self, other):
        attr = other.getAttrDict()
        self.__dict__.update(attr)
