PStorBaseObject

PStorBaseObject is an abstract class within [pstorage] which [Lists], [Dicts], and [Objects] are derived from.

The class contains the following members:

• __reserved__
• __key__
• __connection__
• __root__
• __container__

It also contains the following methods:

• canonicalname
• Dict
• List
• uri2py
• islink
• __eq__

Members

__reserved__ is a list of strings containing the names of the members and methods in the previous two lists. This is used to insure that the values are not overwritten.

__key__ is a string containing the location of the object. For example the index attribute of _0_0_0_0 is Server/WebSites/_0_0_0_0/index.

__connection__ is a [StorservConnection] object. Important members of this class are __username__ and __sessIP__ to get the user's name, and the user's IP, respectively.

__root__ should be the [Storage] object at the root of the database this is currently an issue.

__container__ is the object that the current object is contained within.

Methods

canonicalname( key=None )

• returns __key__ if key equates to None, else it returns key. This is used mainly for throwing exceptions within pstorage.

Dict( key=None )

• convenience method to instantiate and return a new Dict type object with a given key.

List( key=None )

• convenience method to instantiate and return a new List type object with a given key.

uri2py( path )

• returns an attribute from a URI (similar to a URL). Example: self.uri2py('_0_0_0_0/index/html') would return the html Method if self is the WebSites Object.

islink()

• returns true if the object is a link to another object.

eq( other )

• objects equate when they have the same __key__.