What about a "Meta" class ?

[twidi]

Considering that we now have a lot of "meta" fields (database, cacheable, abstract, namespace) it could be useful to regroup them in a Meta subclass of the models, "ala" django.

class MyModel(modelRedisModel):
    foo = fields.StringField()
    bar = fields.StringField()

    class Meta:
        database = main_database
        namespace = 'foobar'
        cacheable = False

What do you think about this ?

(And we could put some internal fields in it too : _fields, _redis_attr*, _hashable_fields, removing their underscore)

[stuaxo]

This would be great, especially for anyone that has seen other ORMs that have Meta

[twidi]

I know, I use Django everyday for years, and I am always a bit confused when I work with limpyd (which I do every so often)

But as you can guess, it's not easy work, and I really have no time for this (I guess it's more than one day of work)

[stuaxo]

The main thing is knowing which fields will go in it, then it's relatively straightforward (metaclass just checks for class called "Meta" during construction, then grabs the fields from there.)

[twidi]

I know how it works, I'm familiar with the internal of django too ;) And you can see some non trivial metaclass in limpyd too.

But "knowing which fields will go in it" is not as easy as it sounds :)