# Objects Dependency management tool for Python projects. [![Latest Version](https://pypip.in/version/Objects/badge.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Objects/) [![Downloads](https://pypip.in/download/Objects/badge.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Objects/) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rmk135/objects.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rmk135/objects) [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/rmk135/objects/badge.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/rmk135/objects) [![License](https://pypip.in/license/Objects/badge.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Objects/) [![Supported Python versions](https://pypip.in/py_versions/Objects/badge.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Objects/) [![Supported Python implementations](https://pypip.in/implementation/Objects/badge.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Objects/) ## Introduction Python ecosystem consists of a big amount of various classes, functions and objects that could be used for applications development. Each of them has its own role. Modern Python applications are mostly the composition of well-known open source systems, frameworks, libraries and some turnkey functionality. When application goes bigger, its amount of objects and their dependencies also increased extremely fast and became hard to maintain. `Objects` is designed to be developer's friendly tool for managing objects and their dependencies in formal, pretty way. Main idea of `Objects` is to keep dependencies under control. ## Entities Current section describes main `Objects` entities and their interaction. ### Providers Providers are strategies of accessing objects. All providers are callable. They describe how particular objects will be provided. For example: ```python """`NewInstance` and `Singleton` providers example.""" from objects.providers import NewInstance from objects.providers import Singleton # NewInstance provider will create new instance of specified class # on every call. new_object = NewInstance(object) object_1 = new_object() object_2 = new_object() assert object_1 is not object_2 # Singleton provider will create new instance of specified class on first call, # and return same instance on every next call. single_object = Singleton(object) single_object_1 = single_object() single_object_2 = single_object() assert single_object_1 is single_object_2 ``` ### Injections Injections are additional instructions, that are used for determining dependencies of objects. Objects can take dependencies in various forms. Some objects take init arguments, other are using attributes or methods to be initialized. Injection, in terms of `Objects`, is an instruction how to provide dependency for the particular object. Every Python object could be an injection's value. Special case is a `Objects` provider as an injection's value. In such case, injection value is a result of injectable provider call (every time injection is done). Injections are used by providers. ```python """`KwArg` and `Attribute` injections example.""" import sqlite3 from objects.providers import Singleton from objects.providers import NewInstance from objects.injections import KwArg from objects.injections import Attribute class ObjectA(object): """ObjectA has dependency on database.""" def __init__(self, database): """Initializer. Database dependency need to be injected via init arg.""" self.database = database def get_one(self): """Select one from database and return it.""" return self.database.execute('SELECT 1').fetchone()[0] # Database and `ObjectA` providers. database = Singleton(sqlite3.Connection, KwArg('database', ':memory:'), KwArg('timeout', 30), KwArg('detect_types', True), KwArg('isolation_level', 'EXCLUSIVE'), Attribute('row_factory', sqlite3.Row)) object_a = NewInstance(ObjectA, KwArg('database', database)) # Creating several `ObjectA` instances. object_a_1 = object_a() object_a_2 = object_a() # Making some asserts. assert object_a_1 is not object_a_2 assert object_a_1.database is object_a_2.database assert object_a_1.get_one() == object_a_2.get_one() == 1 ``` Also injections could be used by any callable with `@inject` decorator: ```python """`@inject` decorator example.""" from objects.providers import NewInstance from objects.injections import KwArg from objects.injections import inject object_a = NewInstance(object) object_b = NewInstance(object) @inject(KwArg('a', object_a)) @inject(KwArg('b', object_b)) def example_callback(a, b): """This function has dependencies on object a and b. Dependencies are injected using `@inject` decorator. """ assert a is not b assert isinstance(a, object) assert isinstance(b, object) example_callback() ``` ### Catalogs Catalogs are named set of providers.