import weakref from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod from typing import Any, ClassVar, Generic, MutableMapping, TypeVar _KeyT = TypeVar("_KeyT") _DataT = TypeVar("_DataT") class BaseNotes(Generic[_KeyT, _DataT], metaclass=ABCMeta): """This class defines a generic type-safe mechanism for associating additional data with an object (without modifying the original object via subclassing or monkey-patching). It was originally designed to avoid monkey-patching the Django HttpRequest object, to which we want to associate computed state (e.g. parsed state computed from the User-Agent) so that it's available in code paths that receive the HttpRequest object. The implementation uses a WeakKeyDictionary, so that the notes object will be garbage-collected when the original object no longer has other references (avoiding memory leaks). We still need to be careful to avoid any of the attributes of _DataT having points to the original object, as that can create a cyclic reference cycle that the Python garbage collect may not handle correctly. """ __notes_map: ClassVar[MutableMapping[Any, Any]] = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary() @classmethod def get_notes(cls, key: _KeyT) -> _DataT: try: return cls.__notes_map[key] except KeyError: cls.__notes_map[key] = cls.init_notes() return cls.__notes_map[key] @classmethod def set_notes(cls, key: _KeyT, notes: _DataT) -> None: cls.__notes_map[key] = notes @classmethod @abstractmethod def init_notes(cls) -> _DataT: ...