Update readme, remove redundant functions, add isfetchable

README.md

@@ -25,17 +25,44 @@ table name `student` and rows `student_id`, `student_name` with datatypes
 integer and text, respectively. The default value for `student_name` is
 `John Smith`.
 
-## Creating a new object instance
+## Entry manipulation
 
-If you create a new object with default Python methods, the object will not 
-be inserted into the table by default. However, the classes that are created
-with `datalite` has a argument in their init method. So, if you write
-`Student(1, create_entry=True)` rather than just saying `Student(1)`, the
-entry equivalent of the newly created student will be inserted into
-the table without any problems.
+After creating an object traditionally, given that you used the `sqlify` decorator,
+the object has two new methods: `.create_entry()` and `.remove_entry()`, you
+can add the object to its associated table using the former, and remove it
+using the latter.
 
-## Deleting an object instance
+```python
+student = Student(10, "Albert Einstein")
+student.create_entry()  # Adds the entry to the table associated in db.db
+student.remove_entry()  # Removes from the table.
+```
 
-Another method that is added to any dataclass created with `datalite` is the
-`.remove()` method. By deleting a class with the `.remove()` you will also
-delete its equivalent entry from the database.
+But what if you have created your object in a previous session, or wish
+to remove an object unreachable? ie: If the object is already garbage 
+collected by the Python interpreter? `remove_from(class_, obj_id)` is
+a function that can be used for this express purpose, for instance:
+
+```python
+remove_from(Student, 2)  # Removes the Student with obj_id 2.
+```
+
+Object IDs are auto-incremented, and correspond to the order the entry were
+inserted onto the system.
+
+## Fetching Records
+Finally, you may wish to recreate objects from a table that already exist, for
+this purpose we have the function `fetch_from(class_, object_id)` as well
+as `is_fetchable(className, object_id)` former fetches a record from the
+SQL database whereas the latter checks if it is fetchable (most likely
+to check if it exists.)
+
+```python
+>>> fetch_from(Student, 2)
+Student(student_id=10, student_name='Albert Einstein')
+```
+
+Finally, we have two helper methods, `fetch_range(class_, range_)` and
+`fetch_all(class_)` the former fetches the records fetchable from the object
+id range provided by the user, whereas the latter fetches all records. Both
+return a tuple of `class_` objects.

src/datalite.py

@@ -1,28 +1,10 @@
 from os.path import exists
 from pathlib import Path
 import sqlite3 as sql
-from dataclasses import Field, asdict
+from dataclasses import Field, asdict, dataclass
 from typing import List, Dict, Optional, Callable, Any
 
 
-def _database_exists(db_path: str) -> bool:
-    """
-    Check if a given database exists.
-    :param db_path: Relative path of the database, including the extension.
-    :return: True if database exists, False otherwise.
-    """
-    return exists(db_path)
-
-
-def _create_db(db_path: str) -> None:
-    """
-    Create the database file.
-    :param db_path: Relative path of the database file, including the extension.
-    :return: None.
-    """
-    Path(db_path).touch()
-
-
 def _convert_type(type_: Optional[type], type_overload: Dict[Optional[type], str]) -> str:
     """
     Given a Python type, return the str name of its
@@ -90,17 +72,17 @@ def _create_table(class_: type, cursor: sql.Cursor, type_overload: Dict[Optional
     cursor.execute(f"CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS {class_.__name__.lower()} ({sql_fields});")
 
 
-def _create_entry(self, cur: sql.Cursor) -> None:
+def _create_entry(self) -> None:
     """
     Given an object, create the entry for the object. As a side-effect,
     this will set the object_id attribute of the object to the unique
     id of the entry.
     :param cur: Cursor of the database.
     :param self: Instance of the object.
-    :param args: Initialisation arguments.
-    :param kwargs: Initialisation keyword arguments.
     :return: None.
     """
+    with sql.connect(getattr(self, "db_path")) as con:
+        cur: sql.Cursor = con.cursor()
         table_name: str = self.__class__.__name__.lower()
         kv_pairs = [item for item in asdict(self).items()]
         kv_pairs.sort(key=lambda item: item[0])  # Sort by the name of the fields.
@@ -108,27 +90,12 @@ def _create_entry(self, cur: sql.Cursor) -> None:
                     f"{', '.join(item[0] for item in kv_pairs)})"
                     f" VALUES ({', '.join(_convert_sql_format(item[1]) for item in kv_pairs)});")
         self.__setattr__("obj_id", cur.lastrowid)
-
-
-def _modify_init(dataclass_: type):
-    def modifier(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        self.__init__()
-        if "create_entry" in kwargs and kwargs["create_entry"]:
-            try:
-                with sql.connect(dataclass_.__db_path__) as con:
-                    cur: sql.Cursor = con.cursor()
-                    self._create_entry(cur)
         con.commit()
-            except AttributeError:
-                raise TypeError("Are you sure this is a datalite class?")
-    return modifier
 
 
 def sqlify(db_path: str, type_overload: Optional[Dict[Optional[type], str]] = None,
            *args, **kwargs) -> Callable:
     def decorator(dataclass_: type, *args_i, **kwargs_i):
-        if not _database_exists(db_path):
-            _create_db(db_path)
         type_table: Dict[Optional[type], str] = {None: "NULL", int: "INTEGER", float: "REAL",
                                                  str: "TEXT", bytes: "BLOB"}
         if type_overload is not None:
@@ -136,7 +103,48 @@ def sqlify(db_path: str, type_overload: Optional[Dict[Optional[type], str]] = No
         with sql.connect(db_path) as con:
             cur: sql.Cursor = con.cursor()
             _create_table(dataclass_, cur, type_table)
-        dataclass_.__db_path__ == db_path  # We add the path of the database to class itself.
-        dataclass_.__init__ = _modify_init(dataclass_)  # Replace the init method.
+        setattr(dataclass_, 'db_path', db_path)  # We add the path of the database to class itself.
+        dataclass_.create_entry = _create_entry
         return dataclass_
     return decorator
+
+
+def is_fetchable(class_: type, obj_id: int) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check if a record is fetchable given its obj_id and
+    class_ type.
+    :param class_: Class type of the object.
+    :param obj_id: Unique obj_id of the object.
+    :return: If the object is fetchable.
+    """
+    with sql.connect(getattr(class_, 'db_path')) as con:
+        cur: sql.Cursor = con.cursor()
+        try:
+            cur.execute(f"SELECT 1 FROM {class_.__name__.lower()} WHERE obj_id = {obj_id};")
+        except sql.OperationalError:
+            raise KeyError(f"Table {class_.__name__.lower()} does not exist.")
+    return bool(cur.fetchall())
+
+
+def fetch_from(class_: type, obj_id: int) -> Any:
+    """
+    Fetch a class_ type variable from its bound db.
+    :param class_: Class to fetch.
+    :param obj_id: Unique object id of the class.
+    :return: The object whose data is taken from the database.
+    """
+    table_name = class_.__name__.lower()
+    if not is_fetchable(class_, obj_id):
+        raise KeyError(f"An object with the id {obj_id} in table {table_name} does not exist."
+                       f"or is otherwise unable to be fetched.")
+
+
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    @sqlify(db_path="db.db")
+    @dataclass
+    class Student:
+        student_id: int
+        student_name: str = "John Smith"
+    is_fetchable(Student, 2)