inito 0.0.6b0

A Lombok-inspired boilerplate-elimination library for Python.

inito

A Lombok-inspired boilerplate-elimination library for Python. inito generates constructors, repr, equality/hashing, accessors, and fluent builders once at class-decoration time — never at instance construction or attribute-access time — so the generated classes perform like handwritten ones. Zero runtime dependencies.

Install

pip install inito

or

uv add inito

Quick start

from inito import Data


@Data
class User:
    name: str
    age: int = 0


user = User("Ada", age=30)
print(user)              # User(name='Ada', age=30)
print(user.get_name())   # Ada
user.set_age(31)

@Data also accepts options:

from inito import Data


@Data(frozen=True)
class Point:
    x: int
    y: int

@builder generates a fluent, chainable builder, and composes with @dataclass:

from dataclasses import dataclass
from inito import builder


@builder(to_builder=True)
@dataclass
class Request:
    prompt: str
    temperature: float = 0.7


request = Request.builder().prompt("hello").build()
revised = request.to_builder().temperature(0.9).build()

Type checking

inito ships a mypy plugin that synthesizes every generated member (__init__'s real signature, get_x/set_x, .builder()/Builder/ .to_builder()) so mypy --strict sees your decorated classes correctly — no # type: ignore needed. Enable it in your pyproject.toml or mypy.ini:

[tool.mypy]
plugins = ["inito.typing.mypy_plugin"]

The plugin is mypy-only — pyright has no third-party plugin mechanism. @Data and @AllArgsConstructor additionally ship a .pyi stub marked with the standard typing.dataclass_transform (PEP 681), so pyright also gets a correctly-typed __init__ for those two decorators — no plugin needed, since this is a standard both tools understand natively. get_x/set_x and @Builder's fluent chain remain pyright's gap regardless (see below), since dataclass_transform can only express a constructor signature, not arbitrary generated methods.

Status

Implemented today: @Data (constructor, __repr__, __eq__, __hash__, getters, setters), @Getter (getters only), @Setter (setters only), @NoArgsConstructor (no-argument constructor using field defaults), @AllArgsConstructor (constructor only, every field), @RequiredArgsConstructor (constructor only accepting required fields), @Builder/builder (fluent builder, to_builder=True support), @ToString (__repr__ only — pairs well with @Builder for a readable repr without pulling in @Data's constructor/eq/hash/accessors), @EqualsAndHashCode (__eq__/__hash__ only), and @Value (@Data without setters — constructor, __repr__, __eq__, __hash__, getters; stack with @dataclass(frozen=True) for genuine immutability).

All of inito.md's Initial Features (v1) are now implemented, plus @Value from its Future Features list. See docs/performance.md for benchmarks against handwritten classes, dataclasses, and attrs. See TASKS.md for what's left: docs, CI hardening, and release.

Known limitation: pyright doesn't see most generated members

Every generated member (get_x, set_x, .builder(), .to_builder(), the generated constructor's parameters, ...) is attached to your class via setattr at decoration time — real attributes at runtime. mypy sees all of them correctly once you enable the bundled plugin (the same approach attrs/Pydantic use). pyright has no equivalent third-party plugin mechanism, so get_x/set_x and @Builder's fluent chain still show up as unknown attributes there — your code runs correctly regardless, this is a pyright-only static-typing gap.

@Data's and @AllArgsConstructor's constructors are the exception: pyright does see these correctly, via a .pyi stub marked with the standard typing.dataclass_transform (no inito-specific plugin needed — this is a mechanism pyright supports natively). This doesn't extend to @NoArgsConstructor/@RequiredArgsConstructor: both were deliberately left unmarked, since their real signatures diverge from what dataclass_transform can express (@NoArgsConstructor truly accepts zero arguments rather than "all fields optional"; @RequiredArgsConstructor excludes defaulted fields from __init__ entirely rather than making them optional) — applying the marker there would make pyright silently accept calls the real runtime rejects, which is worse than the current honest gap. Closing the remaining gap for get_x/set_x/@Builder would need a different strategy (e.g. a companion stub generator); tracked in TASKS.md Phase 17, not required for this release.

Composing with frozen dataclasses

Stacking any inito constructor-generating decorator (@Data, @Builder, @AllArgsConstructor, ...) with @dataclass(frozen=True) works correctly in either stacking order: construction succeeds, and equality/hashing work as expected. Generated constructors assign fields via object.__setattr__ internally — the same technique a real frozen dataclass's own __init__ uses to bypass its blocking __setattr__ for initial construction — so this isn't a special case, it's how frozen classes are meant to be built. Post-construction mutation (point.set_x(5), point.x = 5) still correctly raises FrozenInstanceError either way, since setters remain plain attribute assignment — only construction is exempted from the frozen check, not general mutation.

Self-referential fields

Self-referential type hints (e.g. a linked-list next: Node) work correctly:

from typing import Optional
from inito import Data


@Data
class Node:
    value: int
    next: Optional[Node] = None

inito resolves annotations eagerly, once, at decoration time — before the class's own name is bound in its module's globals — so naively this would fail to resolve. Instead, resolve_type_hints temporarily seeds the module's namespace with the class itself just before resolution (and removes it immediately after), which only affects resolution of the class being decorated, not any other class in its inheritance chain. This is a one-time, decoration-time-only operation with no per-instance or per-call cost. Forward references to any other, already-defined class continue to work normally, and a genuinely undefined name still correctly raises AnnotationResolutionError.

Use Optional[Node] rather than Node | None for a self-referential field: the annotation is evaluated at runtime by get_type_hints, and the | union syntax isn't valid there before Python 3.10 (inito supports 3.9+).

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.