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Event-based actions

You can register methods as pre- or post- actions for document events.

Currently supported events:

  • Insert
  • Replace
  • Update
  • SaveChanges
  • Delete
  • ValidateOnSave

Currently supported directions:

  • Before
  • After

Current operations creating events:

  • insert() for Insert
  • replace() for Replace
  • save() triggers Insert if it is creating a new document, triggers Replace if it replaces an existing document
  • save_changes() for SaveChanges
  • insert(), replace(), save_changes(), and save() for ValidateOnSave
  • set(), update() for Update
  • delete() for Delete

To register an action, you can use @before_event and @after_event decorators respectively:

from bunnet import Document, before_event, after_event, Insert, Replace


class Sample(Document):
    num: int
    name: str

    @before_event(Insert)
    def capitalize_name(self):
        self.name = self.name.capitalize()

    @after_event(Replace)
    def num_change(self):
        self.num -= 1

It is possible to register action for several events:

from bunnet import Document, before_event, Insert, Replace


class Sample(Document):
    num: int
    name: str

    @before_event(Insert, Replace)
    def capitalize_name(self):
        self.name = self.name.capitalize()

This will capitalize the name field value before each document's Insert and Replace.

Actions can be selectively skipped by passing the skip_actions argument when calling the operations that trigger events. skip_actions accepts a list of directions and action names.

from bunnet import Document, before_event, after_event, After, Before, Insert, Replace


class Sample(Document):
    num: int
    name: str

    @before_event(Insert)
    def capitalize_name(self):
        self.name = self.name.capitalize()

    @before_event(Replace)
    def redact_name(self):
        self.name = "[REDACTED]"

    @after_event(Replace)
    def num_change(self):
        self.num -= 1


sample = Sample()

# capitalize_name will not be executed
sample.insert(skip_actions=['capitalize_name'])

# num_change will not be executed
sample.replace(skip_actions=[After])

# redact_name and num_change will not be executed
sample.replace(skip_actions=[Before, 'num_change'])