Using lazy property decorator instead of test alias.

- Ignoring method-hidden (PyLint) so we can decorate methods in a class.
- Making _lazy_property_deco(deferred_callable) to decorate and re-use
  the function name and use it as a callable
- Had to hack around Python2.6 differences in `staticmethod`

gcloud/datastore/_implicit_environ.py

@@ -111,15 +111,6 @@ def _determine_default_dataset_id(dataset_id=None):
     return dataset_id
 
 
-def _lazy_dataset_id():
-    """Alias wrapper for _determine_default_dataset_id.
-
-    Unit test need to be able to replace _determine_default_dataset_id()
-    so we can't wrap the actual ``function`` object in a ``_LazyProperty``.
-    """
-    return _determine_default_dataset_id()
-
-
 def set_default_dataset_id(dataset_id=None):
     """Set default dataset ID either explicitly or implicitly as fall-back.
 
@@ -170,22 +161,40 @@ class _LazyProperty(object):
     :type name: string
     :param name: The name of the attribute / property being evaluated.
 
-    :type method: callable that takes no arguments
-    :param method: The method used to evaluate the property.
+    :type deferred_callable: callable that takes no arguments
+    :param deferred_callable: The function / method used to evaluate the
+                              property.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, name, method):
+    def __init__(self, name, deferred_callable):
         self._name = name
-        self._method = method
+        self._deferred_callable = deferred_callable
 
     def __get__(self, obj, objtype):
         if obj is None or objtype is not _DefaultsContainer:
             return self
 
-        setattr(obj, self._name, self._method())
+        setattr(obj, self._name, self._deferred_callable())
         return getattr(obj, self._name)
 
 
+def _lazy_property_deco(deferred_callable):
+    """Decorator a method to create a :class:`_LazyProperty`.
+
+    :type deferred_callable: callable that takes no arguments
+    :param deferred_callable: The function / method used to evaluate the
+                              property.
+
+    :rtype: :class:`_LazyProperty`.
+    :returns: A lazy property which defers the deferred_callable.
+    """
+    if isinstance(deferred_callable, staticmethod):
+        # H/T: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9527450/1068170
+        #      For Python2.7+ deferred_callable.__func__ would suffice.
+        deferred_callable = deferred_callable.__get__(True)
+    return _LazyProperty(deferred_callable.__name__, deferred_callable)
+
+
 class _DefaultsContainer(object):
     """Container for defaults.
 
@@ -196,7 +205,11 @@ class _DefaultsContainer(object):
     :param dataset_id: Persistent implied dataset ID from environment.
     """
 
-    dataset_id = _LazyProperty('dataset_id', _lazy_dataset_id)
+    @_lazy_property_deco
+    @staticmethod
+    def dataset_id():
+        """Return the implicit default dataset ID."""
+        return _determine_default_dataset_id()
 
     def __init__(self, connection=None, dataset_id=None, implicit=False):
         self.connection = connection

gcloud/datastore/test__implicit_environ.py

@@ -321,6 +321,29 @@ def test_set_implicit_three_env_appengine_and_compute(self):
         self.assertEqual(connection.timeout, None)
 
 
+class Test__lazy_property_deco(unittest2.TestCase):
+
+    def _callFUT(self, deferred_callable):
+        from gcloud.datastore._implicit_environ import _lazy_property_deco
+        return _lazy_property_deco(deferred_callable)
+
+    def test_on_function(self):
+        def test_func():
+            pass  # pragma: NO COVER never gets called
+
+        lazy_prop = self._callFUT(test_func)
+        self.assertTrue(lazy_prop._deferred_callable is test_func)
+        self.assertEqual(lazy_prop._name, 'test_func')
+
+    def test_on_staticmethod(self):
+        def test_func():
+            pass  # pragma: NO COVER never gets called
+
+        lazy_prop = self._callFUT(staticmethod(test_func))
+        self.assertTrue(lazy_prop._deferred_callable is test_func)
+        self.assertEqual(lazy_prop._name, 'test_func')
+
+
 class Test_lazy_loaded_dataset_id(unittest2.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):

pylintrc_default

@@ -73,13 +73,18 @@ ignore =
 #                  identical implementation but different docstrings.
 # - star-args:  standard Python idioms for varargs:
 #                  ancestor = Query().filter(*order_props)
+# - method-hidden: Decorating a method in a class (e.g. in _DefaultsContainer)
+#                      @_lazy_property_deco
+#                      def dataset_id():
+#                          ...
 disable =
     maybe-no-member,
     no-member,
     protected-access,
     redefined-builtin,
     similarities,
     star-args,
+    method-hidden,
 
 
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