Detect changes #1221
Description
When setting up a gitlab element via this library it would be nice to easily detect if there was any actual changes to the object in order to determine whether a save() is necessary
Currently i use this (maybe something similiar could be included?)
def is_modified(self):
for k in self.__dict__['_updated_attrs'].keys():
if k == 'id':
continue
if k == 'password': #since we can't verify change in password we just assume that it is a change
return True
if k in self.__dict__['_attrs']:
if self.__dict__['_updated_attrs'][k] != self.__dict__['_attrs'][k]:
return True
elif k in self.__dict__['_attrs']['properties']:
if self.__dict__['_updated_attrs'][k] != self.__dict__['_attrs']['properties'][k]:
return True
else:
raise Exception('Could not determine if \'%s\' was a changed property' % k)
return False
setattr(gitlab.base.RESTObject, 'is_modified', is_modified)
usage:
approvals = project.approvals.get()
approvals.reset_approvals_on_push = True
if approvals.is_modified():
approvals.save() #only send post if there's actually changes
Specifications
- python-gitlab version: 2.5.0
- API version you are using (v3/v4): v4