should this thing be called meta? interface? extension?

On Oct 27, 2:26 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Simple example:
>
> db=DAL('sqlite://test')
> db.define_table('purchase',
>                 Field('item'),
>                 Field('unit_price','double'),
>                 Field('quantity','integer'))
> db.purchase.insert(item='Box',unit_price=15,quantity=3)
> rows=db().select(db.purchase.ALL)
>
> class purchase_meta:
>     _tablename='purchase'
>     def __init__(self,tax):
>         self.tax=tax
>     def revenues(self):
>         return
> self.purchase.unit_price*self.purchase.quantity*self.tax
>
> rows.meta=purchase_meta(1.07)
>
> for row in rows:
>     print row.item,
> row.unit_price,'*',row.quantity,'*',row.tax,'=',row.revenues
>
> More complex example:
>
> db.define_table('a',Field('n','integer'))
> db.define_table('b',Field('n','integer'),Field('a',db.a))
> id = db.a.insert(n=4)
> for i in range(3,5): db.b.insert(n=i,a=id)
> rows=db(db.b.a==db.a.id).select()   ### join
>
> class products:
>     _tablename='c'
>     def n(self): return self.a.n*self.b.n
>
> rows.meta=products()
> for row in rows:
>     print row.a.n,'*',row.b.n,'=' row.c.n
>
> Any suggestions on improving the syntax? Django can do the same but
> only at the level of the individual table. web2py can now to it for
> joins!
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