feat: adding utils.helper

src/pyDataInterface/utils/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+from .helpers import get_class_and_instance_attributes
 from .warnings import warn_if_instance_class_does_not_inherit_from_DataService
 
-__all__ = ["warn_if_instance_class_does_not_inherit_from_DataService"]
+__all__ = [
+    "warn_if_instance_class_does_not_inherit_from_DataService",
+    "get_class_and_instance_attributes",
+]

src/pyDataInterface/utils/helpers.py

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from itertools import chain
+from typing import Any
+
+
+def get_class_and_instance_attributes(obj: object) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Dictionary containing all attributes (both instance and class level) of a
+    given object.
+
+    If an attribute exists at both the instance and class level,the value from the
+    instance attribute takes precedence.
+    The __root__ object is removed as this will lead to endless recursion in the for
+    loops.
+    """
+
+    attrs = dict(chain(type(obj).__dict__.items(), obj.__dict__.items()))
+    attrs.pop("__root__")
+    return attrs