expose hrns of builtin related entities as a result of Resolve; this

[sfa.git] / sfa / storage / record.py

diff --git a/sfa/storage/record.py b/sfa/storage/record.py
index 0ac188f..6e58d10 100644 (file)
--- a/sfa/storage/record.py
+++ b/sfa/storage/record.py
@@ -33,9 +33,16 @@ class Record:
         # fallback
         return "** undef_datetime **"
     
-    def todict (self):
+    # it may be important to exclude relationships
+    def todict (self, exclude_type=None):
         d=self.__dict__
-        keys=[k for k in d.keys() if not k.startswith('_')]
+        def exclude (k,v):
+            if k.startswith('_'): return True
+            if exclude_type:
+                if isinstance (v,exclude_type): return True
+                if isinstance (v,list) and v and isinstance (v[0],exclude_type) : return True
+            return False
+        keys=[k for (k,v) in d.items() if not exclude(k,v)]
         return dict ( [ (k,d[k]) for k in keys ] )
     
     def toxml(self):