Source code for zope.copy.interfaces

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"""API for zope.copy
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import zope.interface

[docs]class ResumeCopy(Exception): """Don't use the hook, resume the copy. This is a special exception, raised from the copy hook to signal copier that it should continue copying the object recursively. See ICopyHook.__call__ method documentation. """
[docs]class ICopyHook(zope.interface.Interface): """An adapter to an object that is being copied"""
[docs] def __call__(toplevel, register): """Given the top-level object that is being copied, return the version of the adapted object that should be used in the new copy. Raising ResumeCopy means that you are foregoing the hook: the adapted object will continue to be recursively copied as usual. If you need to have a post-copy actions executed, register a callable with ``register``. This callable must take a single argument: a callable that, given an object from the original, returns the equivalent in the copy. See README.txt for more explanation. """