specless.automaton.factory.AutomatonCollection

class specless.automaton.factory.AutomatonCollection

Bases: ObjectFactory

registering the builders for the different types of automaton objects with a more readable interface to our generic factory class.

Methods

create	Returns an instance object built with the keyed builder key and the constructor arguments in kwargs
get	return an instance of an automaton given the automaton_type and the config_data.
register_builder	adds the builder object to the internal builder dictionary

create(key: str, **kwargs)

Returns an instance object built with the keyed builder key and the constructor arguments in kwargs

Parameters:

• key (string) – The _builders dict key reffering to the builder

• kwargs (dictionary) – The keywords arguments needed by the builder specified by key

Returns:

A concrete object built by the builder specified with key

Return type:

who knows lol

Raises:

ValueError – given key must match an existing builder in _builders

get(automaton_type: str, **config_data) → Automaton

return an instance of an automaton given the automaton_type and the config_data.

If the automaton has already been intialized with the same configuration data, it will return the already-initialized instance of it

Parameters:

• automaton_type – The automaton type

• config_data – The keywords arguments to pass to the specific automaton builder class

Returns:

an intialized / active reference to the desired type of automaton object

register_builder(key: str, builder: Builder) → None

adds the builder object to the internal builder dictionary

effects: the _builders dictionary has the key-builder pair appended

Parameters:

• key (string) – The _builders dict key reffering to the builder

• builder (Builder) – The Builder object This can be any function, class or object implementing the .__call__() method