From c56b07718ed6445c43ea18c282345e742425e850 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: candifloss <candifloss@candifloss.cc>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:10:27 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Started modularizing the attribute class

---
 definitions/attribute.py | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/definitions/attribute.py b/definitions/attribute.py
index f27f577..4297075 100644
--- a/definitions/attribute.py
+++ b/definitions/attribute.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+"""
 class Attribute:
     def __init__(self, display_name, html_input_type="text", required=False, unique=False, primary=False, regex=None, min=None, max=None, options=None, default_val="", auto_increment=False, index=False, comment="", compareto=None):
         self.display_name = display_name            # Input label or table column header.
@@ -13,4 +14,32 @@ class Attribute:
         self.auto_increment = auto_increment        # bool: MySQL autoincrement
         self.index = index                          # bool: MySQL index
         self.comment = comment                      # Description text
-        self.compareto = compareto                  # Compare to another attribute of the item for validation: ["comparison", "referenceattrib"]
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+        self.compareto = compareto                  # Compare to another attribute of the item for validation: ["comparison", "referenceattrib"]
+        ##default_val: Optional[str, int, float] = None,  # HTML form input "value" attribute. Sets default value.
+"""
+
+class Attribute:
+    def __init__(self,
+            display_name: str,                              # Input label or table column header.
+            html_input_type: str = "text",                  # HTML form input type. Determines MySQL data type.
+            placeholder: str = "text",                      # HTML form input placeholder.
+            required: bool = False,                         # HTML form input "required" attribute and MySQL "Not Null" constraint
+            unique: bool = False,                           # MySQL "unique" constraint
+            primary: bool = False,                          # MySQL "primary key" constraint
+            index: bool = False,                            # bool: MySQL index
+            compareto: Optional[List[str]] = None,          # Compare to another attribute of the item for validation: ["comparison", "referenceattrib"]
+            title: str =""                                  # Description text, html "title" attribute
+        ):
+        self.display_name = display_name
+        if not display_name:
+            return f"Missing display name for attribute '{attrib_name}'."
+        self.html_input_type = html_input_type
+        if not html_input_type:
+            return f"Missing input type for attribute '{attrib_name}'."
+        self.required = required
+        self.unique = unique
+        self.primary = primary
+        self.default_val = default_val
+        self.index = index
+        self.compareto = compareto
+        self.title = title
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