How to get a link to the current class from the class?

Question

I want to save a dictionary of base classes (all not related to immediate inclusion) in the base class so that I can create them from a string. I do this because it is CLSIDsubmitted via a web form, so I want to limit the selection to those set in subclasses. (I do not want eval()/ globals()class name).

class BaseClass(object):
    CLSID = 'base'
    CLASSES = {}

    def from_string(str):
        return CLASSES[str]()

class Foo(BaseClass):
    CLSID = 'foo'
    BaseClass.CLASSES[CLSID] = Foo

class Bar(BaseClass):
    CLSID = 'bar'
    BaseClass.CLASSES[CLSID] = Bar

This is clearly not working. But is there something like @classmethodinit? The idea is that this class method will be executed only once, when each class is read and registers a class with a base class. Then the following may work: (also save the extra line in Fooand Bar)

class BaseClass(object):
    CLSID = 'base'
    CLASSES = {}

    @classmethod
    def __init__(cls):
        BaseClass.CLASSES[cls.CLSID] = cls 

    def from_string(str):
        return CLASSES[str]()

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Answer 1

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class AutoRegister(type):
  def __new__(mcs, name, bases, D):
    self = type.__new__(mcs, name, bases, D)
    if "ID" in D:  # only register if has ID attribute directly
      if self.ID in self._by_id:
        raise ValueError("duplicate ID: %r" % self.ID)
      self._by_id[self.ID] = self
    return self

class Base(object):
  __metaclass__ = AutoRegister
  _by_id = {}
  ID = "base"

  @classmethod
  def from_id(cls, id):
    return cls._by_id[id]()

class A(Base):
  ID = "A"

class B(Base):
  ID = "B"

print Base.from_id("A")
print Base.from_id("B")

:

class IDFactory(object):
  def __init__(self):
    self._by_id = {}
  def register(self, cls):
    self._by_id[cls.ID] = cls
    return cls

  def __call__(self, id, *args, **kwds):
    return self._by_id[id](*args, **kwds)
  # could use a from_id function instead, as above

factory = IDFactory()

@factory.register
class Base(object):
  ID = "base"

@factory.register
class A(Base):
  ID = "A"

@factory.register
class B(Base):
  ID = "B"

print factory("A")
print factory("B")

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class IDFactory(object):
  def __init__(self):
    self._by_id = {}

  def register(self, cls):
    self._by_id[cls.ID] = cls
    return cls

  def register_as(self, name):
    def wrapper(cls):
      self._by_id[name] = cls
      return cls
    return wrapper

  # ...

@factory.register_as("A")  # doesn't require ID anymore
@factory.register          # can still use ID, even mix and match
@factory.register_as("B")  # imagine we got rid of B,
class A(object):           #  and A fulfills that roll now
  ID = "A"

factory "" , :

class IDFactory(object):
  #...

class Base(object):
  factory = IDFactory()

  @classmethod
  def register(cls, subclass):
    if subclass.ID in cls.factory:
      raise ValueError("duplicate ID: %r" % subclass.ID)
    cls.factory[subclass.ID] = subclass
    return subclass

@Base.factory.register  # still completely decoupled
                        # (it an attribute of Base, but that can be easily
                        # changed without modifying the class A below)
@Base.register  # alternatively more coupled, but possibly desired
class A(Base):
  ID = "A"

Answer 2

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class BaseClass(object):
    CLASS_ID = None
    _CLASSES = {}

    @classmethod
    def create_from_id(cls, class_id):
        return CLASSES[class_id]()

    @classmethod
    def register(cls):
        assert cls.CLASS_ID is not None, "subclass %s must define a CLASS_ID" % cls
        cls._CLASSES[cls.CLASS_ID] = cls

:

class Foo(BaseClass):
    CLASS_ID = 'foo'

Foo.register()

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foo = BaseClass.create_from_id('foo')

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