Question about multiple inheritance, dynamic class creating and instantiation

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Hello I have the following situation:

A specialized class that inherits from two parent class
The need to define the most specialized class at run time, based on some information that I get only when I start reading data from a database.

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:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.

I see no example of multiple inheritance in your question. I do see two cases of single inheritance from a common base class. Also, a base class can implement an instance method such as getClassName(self) with return self.__class__.__name__. So why are derived classes passing their names to the parent class? I don't know what problem you are trying to solve. Perhaps you can explain in more detail. — Booboo
– Booboo, Commented Feb 18, 2020 at 13:56

pacholik · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-18 15:01:00Z

1

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

answered Feb 18, 2020 at 15:01

pacholik

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2 Comments

Cracoras Over a year ago

After the modification was done, it move further and was able to try it out in a jupyternote book, however when I move it into the actual code, when I try to execute the class gets created, and when I try to instantiate it by passing the 2 required arguments, I get the exception that '__new__()' takes x arguments but y were given, etc... so it seems like __new__() is being called somewhere with the incorrect number of parameters ? Where can I find that ?

pacholik Over a year ago

@Cracoras Update your question then. Anyway, I have no problem running invoice_cls(123, 'asdf').

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