Skip to content

Improve API for Accessing Underlying Resources Contained in ResourceFields #1

Description

@kylieCat

Currently to update the value on an underlying Resource you need:

# using a blog post that has an author
post.author_resource_field.value.author_resource.some_field.value = "..."

This will be very unwieldy with deeply nested resources . The desired syntax would be:

post.author.update("some_field", "...")

Perhaps for deeply nested resources a dot syntax could be used:

# using a blog post that has an author that has a profile
# current
post.author_resource_field.value.author_resource.profile_resource_field.value.email_field.value = "..."

# proposed
post.author.update("profile.email", "new.email@foo.com")

The same goes for labels. To fetch data form JSON returned from a server the following can be used:

data[post.title.label]

However if the key in the response that is needed is a label on a deeply nested field:

data[post.author.label][post.author.value.email.value]

Proposed:

data[post.get_label("author")][post.get_label("author.email")]

It should also be possible to iterate labels:

foo = {label, data.get(label) for label in post.labels() if bar(label)}

or

foo = {label, data.get(label) for label in post.labels("author") if bar(label)}

Activity

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions