# Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Aaron Bentley and Panometrics, Inc.
# Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
# W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
"""
Provide a means of saving and loading dictionaries of parameters. The
saved "mapfiles" should be clear, flat-text files, and allow easy merging of
independent/conflicting changes.
"""
import errno
import os.path
import yaml
import libbe
if libbe.TESTING == True:
import doctest
class IllegalKey(Exception):
def __init__(self, key):
Exception.__init__(self, 'Illegal key "%s"' % key)
self.key = key
class IllegalValue(Exception):
def __init__(self, value):
Exception.__init__(self, 'Illegal value "%s"' % value)
self.value = value
def generate(map):
"""Generate a YAML mapfile content string.
>>> generate({"q":"p"})
'q: p\\n\\n'
>>> generate({"q":u"Fran\u00e7ais"})
'q: Fran\\xc3\\xa7ais\\n\\n'
>>> generate({"q":u"hello"})
'q: hello\\n\\n'
>>> generate({"q=":"p"})
Traceback (most recent call last):
IllegalKey: Illegal key "q="
>>> generate({"q:":"p"})
Traceback (most recent call last):
IllegalKey: Illegal key "q:"
>>> generate({"q\\n":"p"})
Traceback (most recent call last):
IllegalKey: Illegal key "q\\n"
>>> generate({"":"p"})
Traceback (most recent call last):
IllegalKey: Illegal key ""
>>> generate({">q":"p"})
Traceback (most recent call last):
IllegalKey: Illegal key ">q"
>>> generate({"q":"p\\n"})
Traceback (most recent call last):
IllegalValue: Illegal value "p\\n"
"""
keys = map.keys()
keys.sort()
for key in keys:
try:
assert not key.startswith('>')
assert('\n' not in key)
assert('=' not in key)
assert(':' not in key)
assert(len(key) > 0)
except AssertionError:
raise IllegalKey(unicode(key).encode('unicode_escape'))
if '\n' in map[key]:
raise IllegalValue(unicode(map[key]).encode('unicode_escape'))
lines = []
for key in keys:
lines.append(yaml.safe_dump({key: map[key]},
default_flow_style=False,
allow_unicode=True))
lines.append('')
return '\n'.join(lines)
def parse(contents):
"""
Parse a YAML mapfile string.
>>> parse('q: p\\n\\n')['q']
'p'
>>> parse('q: \\'p\\'\\n\\n')['q']
'p'
>>> contents = generate({"a":"b", "c":"d", "e":"f"})
>>> dict = parse(contents)
>>> dict["a"]
'b'
>>> dict["c"]
'd'
>>> dict["e"]
'f'
>>> contents = generate({"q":u"Fran\u00e7ais"})
>>> dict = parse(contents)
>>> dict["q"]
u'Fran\\xe7ais'
"""
return yaml.load(contents) or {}
if libbe.TESTING == True:
suite = doctest.DocTestSuite()
