Add a customize_class_mro plugin hook
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gvanrossum
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The rationale for this MRO hook is documented on python#4527 This patch completely addresses my need for customizing the MRO of types that use my metaclass, and I believe it is simple & general enough for other plugin authors. I did `./runtests.py`, and the only failure is in `testCoberturaParser`, which looks completely unrelated to my changes. Log here: https://gist.github.com/snarkmaster/3f78cf04cfacb7abf2a8da9b95298075 PS You will notice in the patch that I deviated from the pattern of "some_hook(fullname) returns a callback, which takes a context". I did this as a suggestion for improvement. At the very least, all of the -> None hooks could be simplified in this fashion (and probably the others, too). I'm happy to put up a patch for that, if there's a process for dealing with a breaking change in the plugin API. A specific reason I disliked the original pattern is that the provided fullname often does not have enough information for the hook to decide whether it cares, so the hook has to return a callback always. And yet, we spend cycles specifically extracting & passing just the fullname. For this reason, my base class hook is just return base_class_callback.
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Resolved the merge conflict. |
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Looks good to me. @ilevkivskyi OK to merge before the release branch is cut?
ilevkivskyi
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Thanks to all! Acknowledging that there are no guarantees, and that the API may change significantly. |
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The rationale for this MRO hook is documented on #4527
This patch completely addresses my need for customizing the MRO of types that use my metaclass, and I believe it is simple & general enough for other plugin authors.
NB My initial version of this change avoided the "get_*_hook -> Callable" indirection, and simply allowed each plugin to customize the MRO. It seemed like @gvanrossum was not a fan of breaking with the local convention, so I made the API conventional and more complex. Here is the diff from the original version: https://gist.github.com/snarkmaster/85076c9793fd5639fc7212a4c04e710a