Enhanced CMDOWS class with a hack for renaming duplicate uIDs

Former-commit-id: ddc5dd7436d4415b2429fed107b0564021e372ba

kadmos/cmdows/__init__.py

@@ -111,3 +111,20 @@ class CMDOWS(object):
         if not result:
             logger.info('The following uIDs do not exist although they are referred to: ' + ', '.join(invalids))
         return result
+
+    def resolve_uids(self):
+        """Method to rename duplicate UIDs in a CMDOWS file"""
+        logger.warning('The resolve_uids method is a hack and should not be used.')
+        ids = [element.attrib['uID'] for element in self.root.xpath('.//*[@uID]')]
+        result = (len(ids) == len(set(ids)))
+        if not result:
+            duplicates = [k for k, v in Counter(ids).items() if v > 1]
+        for duplicate in duplicates:
+            duplicate_elements = self.root.xpath('.//*[@uID="' + duplicate + '"]')
+            for duplicate_id, duplicate_element in enumerate(duplicate_elements):
+                duplicate_element.attrib['uID'] = duplicate_element.attrib['uID'] + '_' + str(duplicate_id)
+
+    def save(self, pretty_print=False):
+        """Method to save a manipulated CMDOWS file"""
+        ElementTree(self.root).write(self.file, pretty_print=pretty_print, method='xml', xml_declaration=True,
+                                     encoding='UTF-8')