From f3152b91239d1ecc9462921a75c20e530bade9e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:24:49 +0100
Subject: move ArReader from importpkg to dedup.arreader

Also document it.
---
 dedup/arreader.py | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 dedup/arreader.py

(limited to 'dedup')

diff --git a/dedup/arreader.py b/dedup/arreader.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e48a0f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dedup/arreader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+import struct
+
+class ArReader(object):
+    """Streaming AR file reader. After constructing an object, you usually
+    call read_magic once. Then you call read_entry in a loop and use the
+    ArReader object as file-like only providing read() to read the respective
+    file contents until you get EOFError from read_entry.
+    """
+    global_magic = b"!<arch>\n"
+    file_magic = b"`\n"
+
+    def __init__(self, fileobj):
+        """
+        @param fileobj: a file-like object providing nothing but read(length)
+        """
+        self.fileobj = fileobj
+        self.remaining = None
+        self.padding = 0
+
+    def read_magic(self):
+        """Consume the AR magic marker at the beginning of an AR file. You
+        must not call any other method before calling this method.
+        @raises ValueError: if the magic is not found
+        """
+        data = self.fileobj.read(len(self.global_magic))
+        if data != self.global_magic:
+            raise ValueError("ar global header not found")
+        self.remaining = 0
+
+    def read_entry(self):
+        """Read the next file header, return the filename and record the
+        length of the next file, so that the read method can be used to
+        exhaustively read the current file.
+        @rtype: bytes
+        @returns: the name of the next file
+        @raises ValueError: if the data format is wrong
+        @raises EOFError: when the end f the stream is reached
+        """
+        self.skip_current_entry()
+        if self.padding:
+            if self.fileobj.read(1) != b'\n':
+                raise ValueError("missing ar padding")
+            self.padding = 0
+        file_header = self.fileobj.read(60)
+        if not file_header:
+            raise EOFError("end of archive found")
+        parts = struct.unpack("16s 12s 6s 6s 8s 10s 2s", file_header)
+        parts = [p.rstrip(" ") for p in parts]
+        if parts.pop() != self.file_magic:
+            raise ValueError("ar file header not found")
+        self.remaining = int(parts[5])
+        self.padding = self.remaining % 2
+        return parts[0] # name
+
+    def skip_current_entry(self):
+        """Skip the remainder of the current file. This method must not be
+        called before calling read_entry.
+        @raises ValueError: if the archive appears truncated
+        """
+        while self.remaining:
+            data = self.fileobj.read(min(4096, self.remaining))
+            if not data:
+                raise ValueError("archive truncated")
+            self.remaining -= len(data)
+
+    def read(self, length=None):
+        """
+        @type length: int or None
+        @param length: number of bytes to read from the current file
+        @rtype: bytes
+        @returns: length or fewer bytes from the current file
+        """
+        if length is None:
+            length = self.remaining
+        else:
+            length = min(self.remaining, length)
+        data = self.fileobj.read(length)
+        self.remaining -= len(data)
+        return data
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