From 8460759a315ad5236df149f5c5888eaae713e773 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mose=20M=C3=BCller?= <mosemueller@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 12:06:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: adding utils.helper

---
 src/pyDataInterface/utils/__init__.py |  6 +++++-
 src/pyDataInterface/utils/helpers.py  | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/pyDataInterface/utils/helpers.py

diff --git a/src/pyDataInterface/utils/__init__.py b/src/pyDataInterface/utils/__init__.py
index c65b108..852eba5 100644
--- a/src/pyDataInterface/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/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",
+]
diff --git a/src/pyDataInterface/utils/helpers.py b/src/pyDataInterface/utils/helpers.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ff956c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/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