diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/inc/MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.h b/Framework/PythonInterface/inc/MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aac2385308128704a015ad760e0a91e1ecba2d7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/inc/MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.h
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#ifndef MANTID_PYTHONINTERFACE_PROPERTYMANAGERFACTORY_H
+#define MANTID_PYTHONINTERFACE_PROPERTYMANAGERFACTORY_H
+/*
+ Copyright © 2017 ISIS Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, NScD Oak Ridge
+ National Laboratory & European Spallation Source
+
+ This file is part of Mantid.
+
+ Mantid is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ Mantid is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+ File change history is stored at: <https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid>
+ Code Documentation is available at: <http://doxygen.mantidproject.org>
+*/
+#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
+#include <boost/python/dict.hpp>
+
+namespace Mantid {
+namespace Kernel {
+class PropertyManager;
+}
+namespace PythonInterface {
+namespace Registry {
+
+/// Create a C++ PropertyMananager from a Python dictionary
+boost::shared_ptr<Kernel::PropertyManager>
+createPropertyManager(const boost::python::dict &mapping);
+}
+}
+}
+
+#endif // MANTID_PYTHONINTERFACE_PROPERTYMANAGERFACTORY_H
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/CMakeLists.txt b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/CMakeLists.txt
index a1690bd727d38c629c26c1b5d5afa3a031d5769a..a53b47eb01d8838f2fe76bf44b688297039185a9 100644
--- a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ set ( SRC_FILES
src/Converters/PyObjectToVMD.cpp
src/Converters/WrapWithNumpy.cpp
src/Registry/MappingTypeHandler.cpp
+ src/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.cpp
src/Registry/PropertyWithValueFactory.cpp
src/Registry/SequenceTypeHandler.cpp
src/Registry/TypeRegistry.cpp
@@ -109,6 +110,7 @@ set ( INC_FILES
${HEADER_DIR}/kernel/Policies/VectorToNumpy.h
${HEADER_DIR}/kernel/Registry/MappingTypeHandler.h
${HEADER_DIR}/kernel/Registry/PropertyValueHandler.h
+ ${HEADER_DIR}/kernel/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.h
${HEADER_DIR}/kernel/Registry/PropertyWithValueFactory.h
${HEADER_DIR}/kernel/Registry/SequenceTypeHandler.h
${HEADER_DIR}/kernel/Registry/TypedPropertyValueHandler.h
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Exports/PropertyManager.cpp b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Exports/PropertyManager.cpp
index e801bcabc29d3fb9f10424b0b754d05a790506f2..725aa4ee068a5e35e36e5ab5440f210e90ebe91b 100644
--- a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Exports/PropertyManager.cpp
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Exports/PropertyManager.cpp
@@ -4,31 +4,32 @@
// design
#endif
#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/GetPointer.h"
+#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.h"
#include "MantidKernel/IPropertyManager.h"
#include "MantidKernel/PropertyManager.h"
#include <boost/python/class.hpp>
+#include <boost/python/make_constructor.hpp>
+using Mantid::PythonInterface::Registry::createPropertyManager;
using Mantid::Kernel::IPropertyManager;
using Mantid::Kernel::PropertyManager;
+using Mantid::Kernel::PropertyManager_sptr;
using namespace boost::python;
GET_POINTER_SPECIALIZATION(PropertyManager)
void export_PropertyManager() {
- typedef boost::shared_ptr<PropertyManager> PropertyManager_sptr;
// The second argument defines the actual type held within the Python object.
- // This means that when a PropertyManager is constructed in Python it actually
- // used
- // a shared_ptr to the object rather than a raw pointer. This knowledge is
- // used by
- // DataServiceExporter::extractCppValue to assume that it can always extract a
- // shared_ptr
- // type
+ // This means that when a PropertyManager is constructed in Python
+ // it actually used a shared_ptr to the object rather than a raw pointer.
+ // This knowledge is used by DataServiceExporter::extractCppValue to assume
+ // that it can always extract a shared_ptr type
class_<PropertyManager, PropertyManager_sptr, bases<IPropertyManager>,
- boost::noncopyable>("PropertyManager");
+ boost::noncopyable>("PropertyManager")
+ .def("__init__", make_constructor(&createPropertyManager));
}
#ifdef _MSC_VER
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Exports/PropertyManagerDataService.cpp b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Exports/PropertyManagerDataService.cpp
index 7113e286462c8ff7fcf117d28b6a78c5a9ad9af5..be80c22864f22bd33dced769f171306b7663d5ad 100644
--- a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Exports/PropertyManagerDataService.cpp
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Exports/PropertyManagerDataService.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/GetPointer.h"
#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/DataServiceExporter.h"
+#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.h"
#include "MantidKernel/PropertyManagerDataService.h"
#include "MantidKernel/PropertyManager.h"
@@ -10,11 +11,37 @@
using namespace Mantid::API;
using namespace Mantid::Kernel;
using Mantid::PythonInterface::DataServiceExporter;
+using Mantid::PythonInterface::Registry::createPropertyManager;
using namespace boost::python;
/// Weak pointer to DataItem typedef
typedef boost::weak_ptr<PropertyManager> PropertyManager_wptr;
+namespace {
+/**
+ * Add a dictionary to the data service directly. It creates a PropertyManager
+ * on the way in.
+ * @param self A reference to the PropertyManagerDataService
+ * @param name The name of the object
+ * @param mapping A dict object
+ */
+void addFromDict(PropertyManagerDataServiceImpl &self, const std::string &name,
+ const dict &mapping) {
+ self.add(name, createPropertyManager(mapping));
+}
+/**
+ * Add or replace a dictionary to the data service directly. It creates
+ * a PropertyManager on the way in.
+ * @param self A reference to the PropertyManagerDataService
+ * @param name The name of the object
+ * @param mapping A dict object
+ */
+void addOrReplaceFromDict(PropertyManagerDataServiceImpl &self,
+ const std::string &name, const dict &mapping) {
+ self.addOrReplace(name, createPropertyManager(mapping));
+}
+}
+
GET_POINTER_SPECIALIZATION(PropertyManagerDataServiceImpl)
void export_PropertyManagerDataService() {
@@ -28,5 +55,8 @@ void export_PropertyManagerDataService() {
pmdType.def("Instance", &PropertyManagerDataService::Instance,
return_value_policy<reference_existing_object>(),
"Return a reference to the singleton instance")
- .staticmethod("Instance");
+ .staticmethod("Instance")
+ // adds an overload from a dictionary
+ .def("add", &addFromDict)
+ .def("addOrReplace", &addOrReplaceFromDict);
}
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Registry/MappingTypeHandler.cpp b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Registry/MappingTypeHandler.cpp
index 4fb274e8d537988fe90fac30d81fc3763f28ece6..0ef7925eae536abbe9b4cd6149a6585d754de050 100644
--- a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Registry/MappingTypeHandler.cpp
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Registry/MappingTypeHandler.cpp
@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/MappingTypeHandler.h"
+#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.h"
#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyWithValueFactory.h"
#include "MantidKernel/PropertyManager.h"
#include "MantidKernel/PropertyManagerProperty.h"
#include "MantidKernel/PropertyWithValue.h"
-#include <boost/make_shared.hpp>
#include <boost/python/dict.hpp>
-#include <boost/python/extract.hpp>
using boost::python::dict;
-using boost::python::extract;
using boost::python::handle;
using boost::python::len;
using boost::python::object;
@@ -23,31 +21,6 @@ using Kernel::PropertyWithValue;
namespace PythonInterface {
namespace Registry {
-namespace {
-/**
- * Create a new PropertyManager from the given dict
- * @param mapping A wrapper around a Python dict instance
- * @return A shared_ptr to a new PropertyManager
- */
-PropertyManager_sptr createPropertyManager(const dict &mapping) {
- auto pmgr = boost::make_shared<PropertyManager>();
-#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
- object view(mapping.attr("items")());
- object itemIter(handle<>(PyObject_GetIter(view.ptr())));
-#else
- object itemIter(mapping.attr("iteritems")());
-#endif
- auto length = len(mapping);
- for (ssize_t i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
- const object keyValue(handle<>(PyIter_Next(itemIter.ptr())));
- const std::string cppkey = extract<std::string>(keyValue[0])();
- pmgr->declareProperty(PropertyWithValueFactory::create(cppkey, keyValue[1],
- Direction::Input));
- }
- return pmgr;
-}
-}
-
/**
* Sets the named property in the PropertyManager by extracting a new
* PropertyManager from the Python object
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.cpp b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7fffa286d4a43ce1d92d035cee2fac336f77e004
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/src/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyManagerFactory.h"
+#include "MantidPythonInterface/kernel/Registry/PropertyWithValueFactory.h"
+#include "MantidKernel/PropertyManager.h"
+
+#include <boost/make_shared.hpp>
+#include <boost/python/extract.hpp>
+
+using boost::python::extract;
+using boost::python::handle;
+using boost::python::object;
+
+namespace Mantid {
+using Kernel::Direction;
+using Kernel::PropertyManager;
+
+namespace PythonInterface {
+namespace Registry {
+
+/**
+ * @param mapping A Python dictionary instance
+ * @return A new C++ PropertyManager instance
+ */
+boost::shared_ptr<Kernel::PropertyManager>
+createPropertyManager(const boost::python::dict &mapping) {
+ auto pmgr = boost::make_shared<PropertyManager>();
+#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
+ object view(mapping.attr("items")());
+ object itemIter(handle<>(PyObject_GetIter(view.ptr())));
+#else
+ object itemIter(mapping.attr("iteritems")());
+#endif
+ auto length = len(mapping);
+ for (ssize_t i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
+ const object keyValue(handle<>(PyIter_Next(itemIter.ptr())));
+ const std::string cppkey = extract<std::string>(keyValue[0])();
+ pmgr->declareProperty(PropertyWithValueFactory::create(cppkey, keyValue[1],
+ Direction::Input));
+ }
+ return pmgr;
+}
+}
+}
+}
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/CMakeLists.txt b/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/CMakeLists.txt
index 8fe8c0eda2c83dab6601f20427be1242b01f3eef..a62aac820a5c8831e6b0441d7ac088689141f549 100644
--- a/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ set ( TEST_PY_FILES
PropertyHistoryTest.py
PropertyWithValueTest.py
PropertyManagerTest.py
+ PropertyManagerDataServiceTest.py
PropertyManagerPropertyTest.py
PythonPluginsTest.py
StatisticsTest.py
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/PropertyManagerDataServiceTest.py b/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/PropertyManagerDataServiceTest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..058984e4facba81b5d9aaad96ca70a48d0666929
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/PropertyManagerDataServiceTest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+
+import unittest
+from mantid.kernel import PropertyManager, PropertyManagerDataService
+
+class PropertyManagerDataServiceTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+ def test_add_existing_mgr_object(self):
+ name = "PropertyManagerDataServiceTest_test_add_existing_mgr_object"
+ values = {'key': 100.5}
+ mgr = PropertyManager(values)
+ self._do_add_test(name, mgr)
+
+ def test_add_straight_from_dict(self):
+ name = "PropertyManagerDataServiceTest_test_add_straight_from_dict"
+ values = {'key': 100.5}
+ self._do_add_test(name, values)
+
+ def test_addOrReplace_straight_from_dict(self):
+ name = "PropertyManagerDataServiceTest_addOrReplace_straight_from_dict"
+ values = {'key': 100.5}
+ values2 = {'key2': 50}
+ self._do_addOrReplace_test(name, values, values2)
+
+ def _do_add_test(self, name, value):
+ pmds = PropertyManagerDataService.Instance()
+ pmds.add(name, value)
+ self.assertTrue(name in pmds)
+ pmds.remove(name)
+
+ def _do_addOrReplace_test(self, name, value, value2):
+ pmds = PropertyManagerDataService.Instance()
+ pmds.add(name, value)
+ pmds.addOrReplace(name, value2)
+ pmgr = pmds[name]
+ self.assertEquals(value2['key2'], pmgr['key2'].value)
+ pmds.remove(name)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ unittest.main()
diff --git a/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/PropertyManagerTest.py b/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/PropertyManagerTest.py
index 05ec479b72128cd5289ebd15a6acca1bf1cdaafc..e16f512d9334a2a318e929c3d3241f946b3d7f5e 100644
--- a/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/PropertyManagerTest.py
+++ b/Framework/PythonInterface/test/python/mantid/kernel/PropertyManagerTest.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import unittest
from mantid.kernel import PropertyManager, IPropertyManager
class PropertyManagerTest(unittest.TestCase):
- def test_propertymanager(self):
+ def test_propertymanager_population(self):
manager = PropertyManager()
# check that it is empty
@@ -64,5 +64,21 @@ class PropertyManagerTest(unittest.TestCase):
del manager["f"]
self.assertTrue(len(manager), 2)
+ def test_propertymanager_can_be_created_from_dict(self):
+ values = {
+ "int": 5,
+ "float": 20.0,
+ "str": 'a string'
+ }
+ pmgr = PropertyManager(values)
+ self.assertEquals(len(pmgr), 3)
+ self.assertEquals(5, pmgr["int"].value)
+ self.assertEquals(20.0, pmgr["float"].value)
+ self.assertEquals('a string', pmgr["str"].value)
+
+ def test_propertymanager_cannot_be_created_from_arbitrary_sequence(self):
+ with self.assertRaises(Exception):
+ PropertyManager((1,2,3,4,5))
+
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()