conf_reader_factory

Factory class for generating readers for configurations

class MDMC.readers.configurations.conf_reader_factory.ConfigurationReaderFactory

Provides a factory for creating readers. Any module within the readers submodule can be created with a string of the class name, as long as it is a subclass of ConfigurationReader.

static base_class() → type[ConfigurationReader]

This should be implemented to return the base class of objects returned by the ReaderFactory

classmethod create_reader_from_ext(extension: str, file_name: str) → ConfigurationReader

Parameters:

• extension (str) – The file extension from which to initialize a subclass of ConfigurationReader

• file_name (str) – The name of the file that you want to read.

Returns:

An initialized configuration reader which has the extension specified by extension

Return type:

ConfigurationReader

Raises:

NotImplementedError – If extension does not match the extension property of any subclass of ConfigurationReader