That might be a preferable general case yes :) For future reference here's the NestedAMPBox I wrote as Glyph suggested:
https://gist.github.com/3263629 cheers lvh On 24 Jul 2012, at 15:29, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 12:48 pm, _...@lvh.cc wrote: >> Sure, I just ended up doing that. >> >> Would it be worth creating a ticket, or am I seriously the first person >> to want this? > > Some general dict argument types would be great. The kind represented > by AMPList included. Note that once we have this, AMPList can actually > be implemented in like ListOf(Dict()) instead of being a special case. > This argues against implementing Dict in terms of AMPList, though. ;) > > Jean-Paul >> >> cheers >> lvh >> >> >> >> On 20 Jul 2012, at 10:35, Glyph wrote: >>> >>> On Jul 20, 2012, at 1:11 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_...@lvh.cc> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> Apparently AMPBoxes aren't Arguments. However, I kind of want an >>>> AMPBox (like an AMPList, but only one). >>>> >>>> Use case: my responses have a "location", but a location is composed >>>> of several sub-things: place name, country and postal code. >>>> {"location": {"placeName": "Krakow", "countryCode": "PL", postalCode: >>>> "30-015"}} would be a lot nicer than having those keys in the top >>>> level namespace :) >>>> >>>> cheers >>>> lvh >>> >>> Seems like an easy enough thing to write. Given that AMPList doesn't >>> use a length prefix (it uses null-key box-termination, just like the >>> rest of the protocol) the representation would be exactly the same. >>> Just add a trivial wrapper that uses AMPList, unpacks its argument, >>> and assert that there's only one of them? >>> >>> -glyph >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Twisted-Python mailing list >>> Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com >>> http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Twisted-Python mailing list >> Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com >> http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
