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# Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
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# This code is meant to work on Python 2.4 and above only.
"""Contains a metaclass and helper functions used to create
protocol message classes from Descriptor objects at runtime.
Recall that a metaclass is the "type" of a class.
(A class is to a metaclass what an instance is to a class.)
In this case, we use the GeneratedProtocolMessageType metaclass
to inject all the useful functionality into the classes
output by the protocol compiler at compile-time.
The upshot of all this is that the real implementation
details for ALL pure-Python protocol buffers are *here in
this file*.
"""
__author__ = 'robinson@google.com (Will Robinson)'
from google.protobuf.internal import api_implementation
from google.protobuf import descriptor as descriptor_mod
from google.protobuf import message
_FieldDescriptor = descriptor_mod.FieldDescriptor
if api_implementation.Type() == 'cpp':
if api_implementation.Version() == 2:
from google.protobuf.internal.cpp import cpp_message
_NewMessage = cpp_message.NewMessage
_InitMessage = cpp_message.InitMessage
else:
from google.protobuf.internal import cpp_message
_NewMessage = cpp_message.NewMessage
_InitMessage = cpp_message.InitMessage
else:
from google.protobuf.internal import python_message
_NewMessage = python_message.NewMessage
_InitMessage = python_message.InitMessage
class GeneratedProtocolMessageType(type):
"""Metaclass for protocol message classes created at runtime from Descriptors.
We add implementations for all methods described in the Message class. We
also create properties to allow getting/setting all fields in the protocol
message. Finally, we create slots to prevent users from accidentally
"setting" nonexistent fields in the protocol message, which then wouldn't get
serialized / deserialized properly.
The protocol compiler currently uses this metaclass to create protocol
message classes at runtime. Clients can also manually create their own
classes at runtime, as in this example:
mydescriptor = Descriptor(.....)
class MyProtoClass(Message):
__metaclass__ = GeneratedProtocolMessageType
DESCRIPTOR = mydescriptor
myproto_instance = MyProtoClass()
myproto.foo_field = 23
...
"""
# Must be consistent with the protocol-compiler code in
# proto2/compiler/internal/generator.*.
_DESCRIPTOR_KEY = 'DESCRIPTOR'
def __new__(cls, name, bases, dictionary):
"""Custom allocation for runtime-generated class types.
We override __new__ because this is apparently the only place
where we can meaningfully set __slots__ on the class we're creating(?).
(The interplay between metaclasses and slots is not very well-documented).
Args:
name: Name of the class (ignored, but required by the
metaclass protocol).
bases: Base classes of the class we're constructing.
(Should be message.Message). We ignore this field, but
it's required by the metaclass protocol
dictionary: The class dictionary of the class we're
constructing. dictionary[_DESCRIPTOR_KEY] must contain
a Descriptor object describing this protocol message
type.
Returns:
Newly-allocated class.
"""
descriptor = dictionary[GeneratedProtocolMessageType._DESCRIPTOR_KEY]
bases = _NewMessage(bases, descriptor, dictionary)
superclass = super(GeneratedProtocolMessageType, cls)
new_class = superclass.__new__(cls, name, bases, dictionary)
setattr(descriptor, '_concrete_class', new_class)
return new_class
def __init__(cls, name, bases, dictionary):
"""Here we perform the majority of our work on the class.
We add enum getters, an __init__ method, implementations
of all Message methods, and properties for all fields
in the protocol type.
Args:
name: Name of the class (ignored, but required by the
metaclass protocol).
bases: Base classes of the class we're constructing.
(Should be message.Message). We ignore this field, but
it's required by the metaclass protocol
dictionary: The class dictionary of the class we're
constructing. dictionary[_DESCRIPTOR_KEY] must contain
a Descriptor object describing this protocol message
type.
"""
descriptor = dictionary[GeneratedProtocolMessageType._DESCRIPTOR_KEY]
_InitMessage(descriptor, cls)
superclass = super(GeneratedProtocolMessageType, cls)
superclass.__init__(name, bases, dictionary)
def ParseMessage(descriptor, byte_str):
"""Generate a new Message instance from this Descriptor and a byte string.
Args:
descriptor: Protobuf Descriptor object
byte_str: Serialized protocol buffer byte string
Returns:
Newly created protobuf Message object.
"""
class _ResultClass(message.Message):
__metaclass__ = GeneratedProtocolMessageType
DESCRIPTOR = descriptor
new_msg = _ResultClass()
new_msg.ParseFromString(byte_str)
return new_msg