trapping all method calls in a class...

[Aaron Brady]

On Dec 21, 1:32 am, "Chris Rebert" <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Piyush Anonymous
>
> <piyush.subscript... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> > i need to trap all method calls in a class in order to update a counter
> > which is increased whenever a method is called and decreased whenever method
> > returns. in order to that i am trying to write a decorator for all the
> > methods.
>
> > see the code here with error.
> > -------
> >http://codepad.org/2w7JVvDB
> > ----
> > any suggestions? any other better way of doing it?
>
> I call unnecessary use of metaclasses! Here's my (untested) attempt at
> a simpler class decorator approach:
>
> def decorate_meths(klass):
>     attrs = klass.__dict__.items()
>         for name, val in attrs:
>                 if callable(val):
>                         klass.__dict__[name] = decorate(val)
>
> def decorate(method):
>     #should be called for every method call in the class
>     def decorated(self, *args, **kwds):
>         print "2 Inside __call__()"
>         returnval = method(self, *args,**kwds)
>         print "3 After self.f(*args)"
>         return returnval
>     return decorated
>
> #@decorate_meths <-- this syntax requires a later Python version
> class Person(object):
>         def testprint(self,val):
>                 print "blah blah"
> Person = decorate_meths(Person)
>
> #rest of code after the class definition would be the same
>
> Sidenotes about your code:
> - `args` and `kwds` are the conventional names for the * and **
> special arguments
> - the `methodname` variable was actually getting method objects, not
> strings, as its values; this was probably part of the bug in your
> program
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> --
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Two more possibilities.

1.  Use sys.settrace, and a dictionary mapping functions to integers.
The functions are given in the frame object, which is a parameter to
the settrace function.

2.  __getattribute__, which either maps a function to an integer, and
returns the function; or returns a function that increments an
integer, then calls the requested function.

P.S.  I did not see the original post in Google Groups.