# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. from typing import Any import pydoc from fvcore.common.registry import Registry # for backward compatibility. """ ``Registry`` and `locate` provide ways to map a string (typically found in config files) to callable objects. """ __all__ = ["Registry", "locate"] def _convert_target_to_string(t: Any) -> str: """ Inverse of ``locate()``. Args: t: any object with ``__module__`` and ``__qualname__`` """ module, qualname = t.__module__, t.__qualname__ # Compress the path to this object, e.g. ``module.submodule._impl.class`` # may become ``module.submodule.class``, if the later also resolves to the same # object. This simplifies the string, and also is less affected by moving the # class implementation. module_parts = module.split(".") for k in range(1, len(module_parts)): prefix = ".".join(module_parts[:k]) candidate = f"{prefix}.{qualname}" try: if locate(candidate) is t: return candidate except ImportError: pass return f"{module}.{qualname}" def locate(name: str) -> Any: """ Locate and return an object ``x`` using an input string ``{x.__module__}.{x.__qualname__}``, such as "module.submodule.class_name". Raise Exception if it cannot be found. """ obj = pydoc.locate(name) # Some cases (e.g. torch.optim.sgd.SGD) not handled correctly # by pydoc.locate. Try a private function from hydra. if obj is None: try: # from hydra.utils import get_method - will print many errors from hydra.utils import _locate except ImportError as e: raise ImportError(f"Cannot dynamically locate object {name}!") from e else: obj = _locate(name) # it raises if fails return obj