Re: [SQLObject] overriding new and calling the original method doesn't work

[Edmund L. <el...@in...>]

On Dec 15, 2003, at 18:26, Guenther Starnberger wrote:

> some time ago there was a thread on this mailinglist, about overiding 
> the
> new() method in classes inherited from SQLObject.
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject/906)
>
> according to a posting in this thread it is possible to call the 
> 'original'
> SQLObject new() method by: 'SQLObject.new(cls, **kw)'.
>
> but somehow this doesn't work for me :/
>
> class Account(SQLObject):
> __name = StringCol(alternateID = True)
> __password = StringCol()
>
> __def new(cls, **kw):
> ____print "FOO"
> ____SQLObject.new(cls, **kw)
>
> __new = classmethod(new)

I started that thread. Which version of Python are you using? Turns out 
that there is a bug in the classmethod code that causes inheritance 
problems in Python < 2.2.3 (I think, can't quite remember now). That 
was one problem.

I override new as follows:

def new(cls, **kw):
         """
         Overrides class method .new() to automatically add mandatory
         sections to request object
         """
         obj = super(Request, cls).new(**kw)
         return obj
new = classmethod(new)


...Edmund.