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Luke Plant c6e8e5d9f0 Fixed non-standard introspection support in LazyObject.
LazyObject called a public method ``get_all_members`` on wrapped objects in
order to allow introspection.  This could easily cause name clashes with
existing methods on wrapped objects, and so has been changed to use the
standard methods.  This could be slightly backwards-incompatible, in obscure
cases, if the undocumented LazyObject has been used externally.



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Backwards-incompatible changes
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LazyObject
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``LazyObject`` is an undocumented utility class used for lazily wrapping other
objects of unknown type. In Django 1.1 and earlier, it handled introspection in
a non-standard way, depending on wrapped objects implementing a public method
``get_all_members()``. Since this could easily lead to name clashes, it has been
changed to use the standard method, involving ``__members__`` and ``__dir__()``.
If you used ``LazyObject`` in your own code, and implemented the
``get_all_members()`` method for wrapped objects, you need to make the following
changes:
* If your class does not have special requirements for introspection (i.e. you
have not implemented ``__getattr__()`` or other methods that allow for
attributes not discoverable by normal mechanisms), you can simply remove the
``get_all_members()`` method. The default implementation on ``LazyObject``
will do the right thing.
* If you have more complex requirements for introspection, first rename the
``get_all_members()`` method to ``__dir__()``. This is the standard method,
from Python 2.6 onwards, for supporting introspection. If you are require
support for Python < 2.6, add the following code to the class::
__members__ = property(lambda self: self.__dir__())