From 27c0e7a8731ca390a9c2d1d5127deb3ff26bd23b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Taylor <snagglepants@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:33:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Really basic proof-of-concept scripthandler.py for review and
 discussion. This should illustrate my basic idea about script support. I
 think this will be a very elegant solution to the scripting situation. This
 will be filled out in the coming days and will hopefully make more and more
 sense as I tie it in. Database changes are likely, make sure to keep an eye
 on the commit logs. Also edited some svn:ignore props and added a placeholder
 for the basicobject script.

---
 scripthandler.py       | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/basicobject.py |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scripthandler.py
 create mode 100644 scripts/basicobject.py

diff --git a/scripthandler.py b/scripthandler.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59c93420f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripthandler.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+"""
+This module is responsible for managing scripts and their connection to the
+Object class model. It is important to keep this as independent from the
+codebase as possible in order to allow for drop-in replacements. All
+interaction with actual script methods should happen via calls to Objects.
+"""
+
+# A dictionary with keys equivalent to the script's name and values that
+# contain references to the associated module for each key.
+cached_scripts = {}
+
+def scriptlink(scriptname):
+   """
+   Each Object will refer to this function when trying to execute a function
+   contained within a scripted module. For the sake of ease of management,
+   modules are cached and compiled as they are requested and stored in
+   the cached_scripts dictionary.
+   """
+   # The module is already cached, just return it rather than re-load.
+   retval = cached_scripts.get('scripts.%s' % (scriptname), False)
+   if retval:
+      return retval
+
+   modname = 'scripts.%s' % (scriptname)
+   print 'Caching script module %s.' % (modname)
+
+   try:
+      modreference = __import__(modname)
+      cached_scripts[modname] = modreference
+   except ImportError:
+      print 'Error importing %s.' % (modname)
+      return
+
+   # The new script module has been cached, return the reference.
+   return modreference
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/basicobject.py b/scripts/basicobject.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d0a4632fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/basicobject.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+"""
+This will be the base object type/interface that all scripts are derived from by
+default. It will have the necessary outline for developers to sub-class and override.
+"""
+test = 123