OOP noob question: Mixin properties

[Micky Hulse]

Learning things here...

In my mixin class (a version I wrote for Django) I had this
(indentation removed for better list readability):

<snip>

class JSONResponseMixin(object):

def __init__(self):
self._cache = False
self._cache_timeout = 86400
self._cache_key = None

@property
def cache(self):
    return self._cache

@cache.setter
def cache(self, value):
    self._cache = value

@cache.deleter
def cache(self):
    del self._cache

@property
def cache_timeout(self):
    return self._cache_timeout

@cache_timeout.setter
def cache_timeout(self, value):
    self._cache_timeout = value

@cache_timeout.deleter
def cache_timeout(self):
    del self._cache_timeout

@property
def cache_key(self):
    return self._cache_key

@cache_key.setter
def cache_key(self, value):
    self._cache_key = value

@cache_key.deleter
def cache_key(self):
    del self._cache_key

# ...

</snip>

...which works! But, then I looked here:

<https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/views/generic/edit.py#L198>

Simply doing this:

<snip>

class JSONResponseMixin(object):

cache = False
cache_timeout = 86400 # 24 hours.
cache_key = None

# ...

<snip>

...works just as good! Not to mention, it's less verbose.

So, from my view class:

<snip>

class Api(jmix.JSONResponseMixin, BaseDetailView):

# ...

self.cache = True
self.cache_timeout = 864000
self.cache_key = 'foo:bar:baz'

# ...

return self.render_to_response(data)

</snip>

I guess I wanted to run my ideas by the Python gurus just to make sure
I was not doing crazy stuff here...

The above seems better than taking the more functional approach:

return self.render_to_response(data, cache, cache_timeout, cache_key)

Then again, maybe the more functional approach is better for its simplicity?

Hopefully I'm not boring ya'll to death. :D

M