song: drop SongRef

It adds a lot of complexity for little real benefit.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/nephilim/song.py b/nephilim/song.py
index 709934a..d68b21c 100644
--- a/nephilim/song.py
+++ b/nephilim/song.py
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ class Song(dict):
     Song provides a dictionary-like wrapper around song metadata.
     Its instances are generated by MPClient, don't instantiate it
     directly.
-    Its instances _shouldn't_ be stored, use SongRef for that.
     Access '?tag' to get always at least an empty string.
     """
 
@@ -89,23 +88,3 @@ class Song(dict):
         ret = Template(s)
         ret = ret.safe_substitute(self)
         return ret
-
-class SongRef:
-    """SongRef stores only a reference to the song (uri) instead
-       of full metadata to conserve memory. Song's tags can be accessed
-       as in Song, but it requires a call to MPD for each tag. """
-    path     = None
-    mpclient = None
-
-    def __init__(self, mpclient, path):
-        self.mpclient = mpclient
-        self.path     = path
-
-    def __getitem__(self, key):
-        return self.song()[key]
-
-    def __nonzero__(self):
-        return bool(self.path)
-
-    def song(self):
-        return list(self.mpclient.find_sync('file', self.path))[0]