Changeset 2534 for package_branches

Timestamp:

Oct 29, 2009, 3:27:33 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

quentin

Message:

Document MachineView?.getattr

File:

• package_branches/invirt-web/cherrypy/code/main.py (modified) (1 diff)

package_branches/invirt-web/cherrypy/code/main.py

@@ -254 +254 @@
 
     class MachineView(View):
-        # This is hairy. Fix when CherryPy 3.2 is out. (rename to
-        # _cp_dispatch, and parse the argument as a list instead of
-        # string
-
         def __getattr__(self, name):
+            """Synthesize attributes to allow RESTful URLs like
+            /machine/13/info. This is hairy. CherryPy 3.2 adds a
+            method called _cp_dispatch that allows you to explicitly
+            handle URLs that can't be mapped, and it allows you to
+            rewrite the path components and continue processing.
+
+            This function gets the next path component being resolved
+            as a string. _cp_dispatch will get an array of strings
+            representing any subsequent path components as well."""
+
             try:
                 cherrypy.request.params['machine_id'] = int(name)