I'd like to create a "class property" that is declared in an abstract base class, and then overridden in a concrete implementation class, while keeping the lovely assertion that the implementation must override the abstract base class' class property.
Although I took a look at this question my naive attempt to re-purpose the accepted answer didn't work:
>>> import abc
>>> class ClassProperty(abc.abstractproperty):
... def __get__(self, cls, owner):
... return self.fget.__get__(None, owner)()
...
>>> class Base(object):
... __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
... @ClassProperty
... def foo(cls):
... raise NotImplementedError
...
>>> class Impl(Base):
... @ClassProperty
... def foo(cls):
... return 5
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/2rs2ts/src/myproj/env/lib/python2.7/abc.py", line 94, in __new__
value = getattr(cls, name, None)
File "<stdin>", line 3, in __get__
TypeError: Error when calling the metaclass bases
unbound method foo() must be called with Impl instance as first argument (got nothing instead)
I'm a little lost on what I should be doing. Any help?
You need to use this in addition to the @classmethod
decorator.
class Impl(Base):
@ClassProperty
@classmethod
def foo(cls):
return 5
In [11]: Impl.foo
Out[11]: 5