How does one expose a property that's a dict on the LP API? Are there any examples of this?
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Bug 352094] Re: Expose ISourcePackage.branches Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:37:27 -0000 From: Jonathan Lange <[email protected]> Reply-To: Bug 352094 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Muharem Hrnjadovic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm .. interesting. IMHO the `ISeriesSourcePackageBranch` class has > nothing to it that would preclude it from external exposure. Why is it > banned from all APIs? > Because it's a boring implementation detail of no actual use. It's sole purpose is to allow us to associate a mapping from pocket -> branch with each source package. If we weren't using an ORM, it wouldn't be a class at all. > The ISourcePackage.linked_branches() method returns a collection of > > (SeriesSourcePackageBranch.pocket, Branch) tuples > > which makes it difficult to declare its return type using something like > @operation_returns_collection_of(). Or am I missing something? > TBH, I'm not sure why it's a list of tuples rather than a dict. I don't know how to expose a dict over the API. Surely someone has done it before though. jml
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