From 12f8a689963517e863d9ab4e743fa90ee723f43f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lorenz Diener <lorenz.diener@uni-bremen.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:52:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add dict attribute access

---
 mastodon/Mastodon.py | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mastodon/Mastodon.py b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
index 9c97b79..722c4d5 100644
--- a/mastodon/Mastodon.py
+++ b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
@@ -1392,6 +1392,20 @@ class Mastodon:
 
         return (date_time_utc - epoch_utc).total_seconds()
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def __json_allow_dict_attrs(json_object):
+        """
+        Makes it possible to use attribute notation to access a dicts
+        elements, while still allowing the dict to act as a dict.
+        """
+        class AttribAccessDict(dict):
+            def __getattr__(self, attr):
+                return self[attr]
+        
+        if isinstance(json_object, dict):
+            return AttribAccessDict(json_object)
+        return json_object
+
     @staticmethod
     def __json_date_parse(json_object):
         """
@@ -1428,6 +1442,7 @@ class Mastodon:
     def __json_hooks(json_object):
         json_object = Mastodon.__json_date_parse(json_object)
         json_object = Mastodon.__json_id_to_bignum(json_object)
+        json_object = Mastodon.__json_allow_dict_attrs(json_object)
         return json_object
 
     def __api_request(self, method, endpoint, params={}, files={}, do_ratelimiting=True):