pyface.data_view.index_manager module¶
Index Managers¶
This module provides a number of classes for efficiently managing the mapping between different ways of representing indices. To do so, each index manager provides an intermediate, opaque index object that is suitable for use in these situations and is guaranteed to have a long enough life that it will not change or be garbage collected while a C++ object has a reference to it.
The wx DataView classes expect to be given an integer id value that is stable and can be used to return the parent reference id.
And Qt’s ModelView system expects to be given a pointer to an object that is long-lived (in particular, it will not be garbage-collected during the lifetime of a QModelIndex) and which can be used to find the parent object of the current object.
The default representation of an index from the point of view of the data view infrastructure is a sequence of integers, giving the index at each level of the hierarchy. DataViewModel classes can then use these indices to identify objects in the underlying data model.
There are three main classes defined in the module: AbstractIndexManager, IntIndexManager, and TupleIndexManager.
- AbstractIndexManager
An ABC that defines the API
- IntIndexManager
An efficient index manager for non-hierarchical data, such as lists, tables and 2D arrays.
- TupleIndexManager
An index manager that handles non-hierarchical data while trying to be fast and memory efficient.
The two concrete subclasses should be sufficient for most cases, but advanced users may create their own if for some reason the provided managers do not work well for a particular situation. Developers who implement this API need to be mindful of the requirements on the lifetime and identity constraints required by the various toolkit APIs.
- pyface.data_view.index_manager.Root = ()¶
The singular root object for all index managers.
- class pyface.data_view.index_manager.AbstractIndexManager[source]¶
Bases:
ABCHasStrictTraitsAbstract base class for index managers.
- abstract create_index(parent, row)[source]¶
Given a parent index and a row number, create an index.
The internal structure of the index should not matter to consuming code. However obejcts returned from this method should persist until the reset method is called.
- Parameters
parent (index object) – The parent index object.
row (int) – The position of the resuling index in the parent’s children.
- Returns
index – The resulting opaque index object.
- Return type
index object
- Raises
IndexError – Negative row values raise an IndexError exception.
RuntimeError – If asked to create a persistent index for a parent and row where that is not possible, a RuntimeError will be raised.
- abstract get_parent_and_row(index)[source]¶
Given an index object, return the parent index and row.
- Parameters
index (index object) – The opaque index object.
- Returns
parent (index object) – The parent index object.
row (int) – The position of the resuling index in the parent’s children.
- Raises
IndexError – If the Root object is passed as the index, this method will raise an IndexError, as it has no parent.
- from_sequence(indices)[source]¶
Given a sequence of indices, return the index object.
The default implementation starts at the root and repeatedly calls create_index() to find the index at each level, returning the final value.
- Parameters
indices (sequence of int) – The row location at each level of the hierarchy.
- Returns
index – The persistent index object associated with this sequence.
- Return type
index object
- Raises
RuntimeError – If asked to create a persistent index for a sequence of indices where that is not possible, a RuntimeError will be raised.
- to_sequence(index)[source]¶
Given an index, return the corresponding sequence of row values.
The default implementation repeatedly calls get_parent_and_row() to walk up the hierarchy and push the row values into the start of the sequence.
- Parameters
index (index object) – The opaque index object.
- Returns
sequence – The row location at each level of the hierarchy.
- Return type
tuple of int
- abstract from_id(id)[source]¶
Given an integer id, return the corresponding index.
- Parameters
id (int) – An integer object id value.
- Returns
index – The persistent index object associated with this id.
- Return type
index object
- abstract id(index)[source]¶
Given an index, return the corresponding id.
- Parameters
index (index object) – The persistent index object.
- Returns
id – The associated integer object id value.
- Return type
- reset()[source]¶
Reset any caches and other state.
Resettable traits in subclasses are indicated by having
can_reset=Truemetadata. This is provided to allow toolkit code to clear caches to prevent memory leaks when working with very large tables.Care should be taken when calling this method, as Qt may crash if a QModelIndex is referencing an index that no longer has a reference in a cache.
For some IndexManagers, particularly for those which are flat or static, reset() may do nothing.
- class pyface.data_view.index_manager.IntIndexManager[source]¶
Bases:
AbstractIndexManagerEfficient IndexManager for non-hierarchical indexes.
This is a simple index manager for flat data structures. The index values returned are either the Root, or simple integers that indicate the position of the index as a child of the root.
While it cannot handle nested data, this index manager can operate without having to perform any caching, and so is very efficient.
- create_index(parent, row)[source]¶
Given a parent index and a row number, create an index.
This should only ever be called with Root as the parent.
- Parameters
parent (index object) – The parent index object.
row (non-negative int) – The position of the resulting index in the parent’s children.
- Returns
index – The resulting opaque index object.
- Return type
index object
- Raises
IndexError – Negative row values raise an IndexError exception.
RuntimeError – If the parent is not the Root, a RuntimeError will be raised
- get_parent_and_row(index)[source]¶
Given an index object, return the parent index and row.
- Parameters
index (index object) – The opaque index object.
- Returns
parent (index object) – The parent index object.
row (int) – The position of the resuling index in the parent’s children.
- Raises
IndexError – If the Root object is passed as the index, this method will raise an IndexError, as it has no parent.
- class pyface.data_view.index_manager.TupleIndexManager[source]¶
Bases:
AbstractIndexManager- create_index(parent, row)[source]¶
Given a parent index and a row number, create an index.
- Parameters
parent (index object) – The parent index object.
row (non-negative int) – The position of the resulting index in the parent’s children.
- Returns
index – The resulting opaque index object.
- Return type
index object
- Raises
IndexError – Negative row values raise an IndexError exception.
- get_parent_and_row(index)[source]¶
Given an index object, return the parent index and row.
- Parameters
index (index object) – The opaque index object.
- Returns
parent (index object) – The parent index object.
row (int) – The position of the resuling index in the parent’s children.
- Raises
IndexError – If the Root object is passed as the index, this method will raise an IndexError, as it has no parent.
