[Feature] Autoproxying helpers to automatically register the outputs of functions

[mawildoer]

Hello!

I've been using the autoproxying features of Pyro to interact with a heavily OO API kicad-python, that returns/yields lots of other rich/custom objects.

I wanted to maintain the existing interface for the sake of remote/local compatibility, so I came up with these helper decorators to automatically register returned objects:

def register_return(method):
    """Decorator to register the return value
    of a method in the Pyro daemon."""
    @wraps(method)
    def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
        daemon = self._pyroDaemon
        result = method(self, *args, **kwargs)
        daemon.register(result)
        return result

    return wrapper


def register_yielded(method):
    """Decorator to register the return value
    of a method in the Pyro daemon."""
    @wraps(method)
    def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
        daemon = self._pyroDaemon
        generator = method(self, *args, **kwargs)
        for result in generator:
            daemon.register(result)
            yield result
    return wrapper

I feel like there's perhaps a simpler way I'm missing, but if there isn't perhaps this would be a useful util we can include in Pyro for others?

[irmen]

Personally I prefer writing explicit adapter classes to have full control over what is happening, but I can appreciate some simple generic wrappers to get "the bulk done" if you will.
I guess you've looked at the "thirdpartylib" example?

[mawildoer]

I did! In my case I'm attempting to adapt an existing class that itself already wraps another interface and I don't want to wrap it again since there's quite a lot of methods and returns involved!

Here's a link to one of the files in question: https://github.com/atait/kicad-python/pull/4/files#diff-ecd96c7f47e6b5011bec5c67da46ffe55af26c39ffa89e63b2aa55792008e0a1

[TheSven73]

@mawildoer did you get kicad-python to work using Pyro5 autoproxies? If so, did you run into #92 ?

[mawildoer]

@TheSven73 I certainly didn't take a rigorous route through this one and it was a while ago, but I don't recall running into that issue. Sorry I can't be of more help!