Use dataclasses

[faretek1]

Currently, when working on scratchattach, code completion is a problem. Sometimes, misremembering the name of an attribute can cause issues - e.g. setting Session.session_id instead of Session.id. This could be partially solved/easily checked if there is good code completion available. This is the problem addressed in #381

As a solution to the code completion issue regarding many object attributes and to improved readability, using dataclasses could be a good idea. This is one of the alternatives listed in #381, and is probably the easiest and cleanest way of doing so.

Notes:

• any processing upon initialisation is to move to the __post_init__ method

• using self.__dict__.update(**entries) could be partially replaced by cls(**entries) - this will cause errors for unrecognised attribute names, which is a good thing

• These would be quite large changes so testing might be necessary

• dataclasses' built-in repr() functionality might be better for use compared to some existing __repr__ methods. However, if one is to use this, a lot of field(repr=False, ...) may be necessary

• ForumTopic

• ForumPost

• Classroom

• Session

• PartialProject

• Comment

• ReceivedRequest

• CloudActivity

• User

• BackpackAsset

• Studio

• Activity

[TheCommCraft]

I changed it for ForumTopic

[TheCommCraft]

Now also for ForumPost

[faretek1]

Now also for Classroom

[faretek1]

Warning

Now also for Session

[faretek1]

dataclasses with inheritance would cause problems if some of the attributes are non-default
https://medium.com/@aniscampos/python-dataclass-inheritance-finally-686eaf60fbb5
Either we could use kw_only, or we could just make everything have default values.
This concerns PartialProject and Project

[TheCommCraft]

Now for User

[faretek1]

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[faretek1]

i will try to do comment now

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[faretek1]

doing studio