examples/usercmodule/cexample: Add more advanced native class.

This adds a separate `AdvancedTimer` class that demonstrates a few more
advanced concepts usch as custom handlers for printing and attributes.

Signed-off-by: Laurens Valk <laurens@pybricks.com>

1 files changed, 82 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/examples/usercmodule/cexample/examplemodule.c b/examples/usercmodule/cexample/examplemodule.c
index 2988fbd565..d13515e72c 100644
--- a/examples/usercmodule/cexample/examplemodule.c
+++ b/examples/usercmodule/cexample/examplemodule.c
@@ -68,6 +68,87 @@ MP_DEFINE_CONST_OBJ_TYPE(
     locals_dict, &example_Timer_locals_dict
     );
 
+// What follows is a *separate* class definition that demonstrates more
+// advanced techniques to implement other Python-like features, such as:
+//
+// - A custom representation for __repr__ and __str__.
+// - Custom attribute handling to create a read/write "property".
+//
+// It re-uses some of the elements of the basic Timer class. This is allowed
+// because they both use example_Timer_obj_t as the instance structure.
+
+// Handles AdvancedTimer.__repr__, AdvancedTimer.__str__.
+static void example_AdvancedTimer_print(const mp_print_t *print, mp_obj_t self_in, mp_print_kind_t kind) {
+
+    // Get the elapsed time. In this case, it's also a demonstration of calling
+    // the equivalent of self.time() in the C API. This is not usually very
+    // efficient, but it can sometimes be useful.
+    mp_uint_t elapsed = mp_obj_get_int(example_Timer_time(self_in));
+
+    // We'll make all representations print at least the class name.
+    mp_printf(print, "%q()", MP_QSTR_AdvancedTimer);
+
+    // Decide what else to print based on print kind.
+    if (kind == PRINT_STR) {
+        // For __str__, let's attempt to make it more readable.
+        mp_printf(print, "  # created %d seconds ago", elapsed / 1000);
+    }
+}
+
+// Handles AdvancedTimer.seconds for reading and writing.
+static void example_AdvancedTimer_attribute_handler(mp_obj_t self_in, qstr attr, mp_obj_t *dest) {
+
+    // In this example, we only want to handle the .seconds attribute in a
+    // special way.
+    if (attr != MP_QSTR_seconds) {
+        // Attribute not found, continue lookup in locals dict. This way,
+        // methods like .time() will be handled normally.
+        dest[1] = MP_OBJ_SENTINEL;
+        return;
+    }
+
+    // Get reference to AdvancedTimer instance.
+    example_Timer_obj_t *self = MP_OBJ_TO_PTR(self_in);
+
+    // Check if this is a read operation.
+    if (dest[0] == MP_OBJ_NULL) {
+        // It's read, so "return" elapsed seconds by storing it in dest[0].
+        mp_uint_t elapsed = mp_hal_ticks_ms() - self->start_time;
+        dest[0] = mp_obj_new_int_from_uint(elapsed / 1000);
+        return;
+    }
+    // Check if this is a delete or store operation.
+    else if (dest[0] == MP_OBJ_SENTINEL) {
+        // It's delete or store. Now check which one.
+        if (dest[1] == MP_OBJ_NULL) {
+            // It's delete. But in this example we don't want to allow it
+            // so we just return.
+            return;
+        } else {
+            // It's write. First, get the value that the user is trying to set.
+            mp_uint_t desired_ms = mp_obj_get_int(dest[1]) * 1000;
+            // Use it to update the start time. This way, the next read will
+            // report the updated time.
+            self->start_time = mp_hal_ticks_ms() - desired_ms;
+
+            // Indicate successful store.
+            dest[0] = MP_OBJ_NULL;
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// This defines the type(AdvancedTimer) object.
+MP_DEFINE_CONST_OBJ_TYPE(
+    example_type_AdvancedTimer,
+    MP_QSTR_AdvancedTimer,
+    MP_TYPE_FLAG_NONE,
+    attr, example_AdvancedTimer_attribute_handler,
+    print, example_AdvancedTimer_print,
+    make_new, example_Timer_make_new,
+    locals_dict, &example_Timer_locals_dict
+    );
+
 // Define all attributes of the module.
 // Table entries are key/value pairs of the attribute name (a string)
 // and the MicroPython object reference.
@@ -77,6 +158,7 @@ static const mp_rom_map_elem_t example_module_globals_table[] = {
     { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR___name__), MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_cexample) },
     { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_add_ints), MP_ROM_PTR(&example_add_ints_obj) },
     { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_Timer),    MP_ROM_PTR(&example_type_Timer) },
+    { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_AdvancedTimer),    MP_ROM_PTR(&example_type_AdvancedTimer) },
 };
 static MP_DEFINE_CONST_DICT(example_module_globals, example_module_globals_table);