Refactor request handler delete or retrieving items on POST.

[plomtask] / plomtask / db.py

diff --git a/plomtask/db.py b/plomtask/db.py
index b3f1db00986b1142f5f31be34060864840ab5bdc..71c59d50d8b0013dcf3bd9e6c811080563606830 100644 (file)
--- a/plomtask/db.py
+++ b/plomtask/db.py
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ class BaseModel(Generic[BaseModelId]):
     to_save: list[str] = []
     to_save_versioned: list[str] = []
     to_save_relations: list[tuple[str, str, str, int]] = []
+    add_to_dict: list[str] = []
     id_: None | BaseModelId
     cache_: dict[BaseModelId, Self]
     to_search: list[str] = []
@@ -295,6 +296,9 @@ class BaseModel(Generic[BaseModelId]):
             for rel in getattr(self, attr_name):
                 l += [rel.as_dict_into_reference(library)]
             d[attr_name] = l
+        for k in self.add_to_dict:
+            d[k] = [x.as_dict_into_reference(library)
+                    for x in getattr(self, k)]
         return d
 
     def as_dict_into_reference(self,
@@ -326,6 +330,11 @@ class BaseModel(Generic[BaseModelId]):
         assert isinstance(as_dict['id'], (int, str))
         return as_dict['id']
 
+    @classmethod
+    def name_lowercase(cls) -> str:
+        """Convenience method to return cls' name in lowercase."""
+        return cls.__name__.lower()
+
     # cache management
     # (we primarily use the cache to ensure we work on the same object in
     # memory no matter where and how we retrieve it, e.g. we don't want