Decorators¶
Decorators are behaviours that manage a single child and provide common modifications to their underlying child behaviour (e.g. inverting the result). i.e. they provide a means for behaviours to wear different ‘hats’ depending on their context without a behaviour tree.
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An example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 #!/usr/bin/env python import py_trees.decorators import py_trees.display if __name__ == '__main__': root = py_trees.composites.Sequence(name="Life") timeout = py_trees.decorators.Timeout( name="Timeout", child=py_trees.behaviours.Success(name="Have a Beer!") ) failure_is_success = py_trees.decorators.Inverter( name="Inverter", child=py_trees.behaviours.Success(name="Busy?") ) root.add_children([failure_is_success, timeout]) py_trees.display.render_dot_tree(root)Decorators (Hats)
Decorators with very specific functionality:
py_trees.decorators.Condition()py_trees.decorators.Inverter()py_trees.decorators.OneShot()py_trees.decorators.TimeOut()And the X is Y family:

![digraph life {
graph [fontname="times-roman"];
node [fontname="times-roman"];
edge [fontname="times-roman"];
Life [fillcolor=orange, fontcolor=black, fontsize=11, shape=box, style=filled];
Inverter [fillcolor=ghostwhite, fontcolor=black, fontsize=11, shape=ellipse, style=filled];
Life -> Inverter;
"Busy?" [fillcolor=gray, fontcolor=black, fontsize=11, shape=ellipse, style=filled];
Inverter -> "Busy?";
Timeout [fillcolor=ghostwhite, fontcolor=black, fontsize=11, shape=ellipse, style=filled];
Life -> Timeout;
"Have a Beer!" [fillcolor=gray, fontcolor=black, fontsize=11, shape=ellipse, style=filled];
Timeout -> "Have a Beer!";
}](_images/graphviz-a603bd52503a7c1be592f94a4e45da69cb5022ed.png)