############################################################################## # # Copyright (c) 2003 Zope Corporation and Contributors. # All Rights Reserved. # # This software is subject to the provisions of the Zope Public License, # Version 2.1 (ZPL). A copy of the ZPL should accompany this distribution. # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED # WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED # WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, AGAINST INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS # FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. # ############################################################################## """Location support loosely based from ``zope.location``, but without ``zope.security`` support or proxy support, neither of which is used by ``repoze.bfg`` """ def inside(model1, model2): """Is ``model1`` 'inside' ``model2``? Return ``True`` if so, else ``False``. ``model1`` is 'inside' ``model2`` if ``model2`` is a `location ancestor` of ``model1``. It is a location ancestor if its parent (or one of its parent's parents, etc.) is an ancestor. """ while model1 is not None: if model1 is model2: return True model1 = model1.__parent__ return False def lineage(model): """ Return a generator representing the model lineage. The generator first returns ``model`` unconditionally. Then, if ``model`` supplies a ``__parent__`` attribute, return the object represented by ``model.__parent__``. If *that* object has a ``__parent__`` attribute, return that object's parent, and so on, until the object being inspected either has no ``__parent__`` attribute or which has a ``__parent__`` attribute of ``None``. For example, if the object tree is:: thing1 = Thing() thing2 = Thing() thing2.__parent__ = thing1 Calling ``lineage(thing2)`` will return a generator. When we turn it into a list, we will get:: list(lineage(thing2)) [ , ] """ while model is not None: yield model # The common case is that the AttributeError exception below # is exceptional as long as the developer is a "good citizen" # who has a root object with a __parent__ of None. Using an # exception here instead of a getattr with a default is an # important micro-optimization, because this function is # called in any non-trivial application over and over again to # generate URLs and paths. try: model = model.__parent__ except AttributeError: model = None