nested-lookup/nested_lookup/lookup_api.py
2019-10-16 15:17:36 -04:00

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Python

import copy
import warnings
from six import iteritems
from nested_lookup import nested_lookup
def nested_delete(document, key, in_place=False):
if not in_place:
document = copy.deepcopy(document)
return _nested_delete(document=document, key=key)
def _nested_delete(document, key):
"""
Method to delete a key->value pair from a nested document
Args:
document: Might be List of Dicts (or) Dict of Lists (or)
Dict of List of Dicts etc...
key: Key to delete
Return:
Returns a document that includes everything but the given key
"""
if isinstance(document, list):
for list_items in document:
_nested_delete(document=list_items, key=key)
elif isinstance(document, dict):
if document.get(key):
del document[key]
for dict_key, dict_value in iteritems(document):
_nested_delete(document=dict_value, key=key)
return document
def nested_update(document, key, value, in_place=False, treat_as_element=True):
"""
Method to update a key->value pair in a nested document
Args:
document: Might be List of Dicts (or) Dict of Lists (or)
Dict of List of Dicts etc...
key: Key to update the value
value: Value to set
in_place (bool):
True: modify the dict in place;
False: create a deep copy of the dict and modify it
Defaults to False
treat_list_element (bool):
True: if a list is provided as "value", the function trys
to match the list elements to the occurences of the key.
If the key occures more often than the provided list has
elements, the first element gets recycled.
False: the provided list is treated as one scalar value and
will be set as value to every key that matches.
Defaults to True (because of backwards portability of the package).
Return:
Returns a document that has updated key, value pair.
"""
# check if a list or scalar value is provided and create a list
# from the scalar value
# check the length of the list and provide it to _nested_update
if not treat_as_element and not isinstance(value, list):
raise Exception(
"You need to pass value as list if you opt for" + "this feature"
)
elif treat_as_element:
value = [value]
if not in_place:
document = copy.deepcopy(document)
return _nested_update(document=document, key=key, value=value)
def _nested_update(document, key, value):
"""
Method to update a key->value pair in a nested document. If values count less than
keys count, then uses last value as default.
Args:
document: Might be List of Dicts (or) Dict of Lists (or)
Dict of List of Dicts etc...
key (str): Key to update the value
value (list): value(s) which should be used for replacement purpouse
Return:
Returns a document that has updated key, value pair.
"""
if isinstance(document, list):
for list_items in document:
_nested_update(
document=list_items, key=key, value=value
)
elif isinstance(document, dict):
for dict_key, dict_value in iteritems(document):
if dict_key == key:
document[key] = value[0]
if len(value) > 1:
value.pop(0)
_nested_update(
document=dict_value, key=key, value=value
)
return document
def nested_alter(
document,
key,
callback_function=None,
function_parameters=None,
conversion_function=None,
wild_alter=False,
in_place=True,
):
"""
Method to alter all values of the occurences of the key "key".
The provided callback_function is used to alter the scalar values
Args:
document: Might be List of Dicts (or) Dict of Lists (or)
Dict of List of Dicts etc...
key: Key to update the value
callback_function :A callback function which alters a scalar value
HINT: You should be aware that not every element might be of
the same type, please check this in your function!
function_parameters (list):
If the callback_function has additional input arguments except
the scalar value, please specify those in this list.
conversion_function: A conversion function like str() which should be
applied to every found value before it is passed to the
"callback_function"
wild_alter: Find matching elements via wild-match by the given keys
and alter those.
HINT: Keep in mind that the wild-match might return unexpected types!
in_place (bool):
True: modify the dict in place;
False: create a deep copy of the dict and modify it
Defaults to False
Return:
Returns a document that has updated key, value pair.
"""
# check if a list or scalar value is provided and create a list from
# the scalar value
# check the length of the list and provide it to _nested_update
if isinstance(key, list):
key_len = len(key)
else:
key = [key]
key_len = len(key)
if not in_place:
document = copy.deepcopy(document)
return _nested_alter(
document=document,
keys=key,
callback_function=callback_function,
function_parameters=function_parameters,
conversion_function=conversion_function,
wild_alter=wild_alter,
in_place=in_place,
key_len=key_len,
)
def _call_callback(
value_list, callback_function, function_parameters, conversion_function
):
"""
internal helper to call the callback function
"""
return_list = []
# loop over all values
for value in value_list:
# apply the conversion function
if conversion_function is not None:
value = conversion_function(value)
# if functions arguments are present, expand the list to variables
# via the magic operator *
if function_parameters:
trans_val = callback_function(value, *function_parameters)
else:
trans_val = callback_function(value)
# append the transformed element to the list
return_list.append(trans_val)
return return_list
def _nested_alter(
document,
keys,
callback_function,
function_parameters,
conversion_function,
wild_alter,
in_place,
key_len,
):
"""
"""
# return data if no callback_function is provided
if callback_function is None:
warnings.warn("Please provide a callback_function to nested_alter().")
return document
# iterate over all given keys in the list
for key in keys:
# try to find the key:
findings = nested_lookup(key, document, with_keys=True, wild=wild_alter)
for k, v in findings.items():
trans_val = _call_callback(
v, callback_function, function_parameters, conversion_function
)
# use the transformed value and apply the update to the key
# (dont treat the lists as elements here)
document = nested_update(
document, k, trans_val, in_place=in_place, treat_as_element=False
)
return document