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      1 # Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
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     30 
     31 # This code is meant to work on Python 2.4 and above only.
     32 
     33 """Contains a metaclass and helper functions used to create
     34 protocol message classes from Descriptor objects at runtime.
     35 
     36 Recall that a metaclass is the "type" of a class.
     37 (A class is to a metaclass what an instance is to a class.)
     38 
     39 In this case, we use the GeneratedProtocolMessageType metaclass
     40 to inject all the useful functionality into the classes
     41 output by the protocol compiler at compile-time.
     42 
     43 The upshot of all this is that the real implementation
     44 details for ALL pure-Python protocol buffers are *here in
     45 this file*.
     46 """
     47 
     48 __author__ = 'robinson (at] google.com (Will Robinson)'
     49 
     50 
     51 from google.protobuf.internal import api_implementation
     52 from google.protobuf import descriptor as descriptor_mod
     53 from google.protobuf import message
     54 
     55 _FieldDescriptor = descriptor_mod.FieldDescriptor
     56 
     57 
     58 if api_implementation.Type() == 'cpp':
     59   if api_implementation.Version() == 2:
     60     from google.protobuf.internal.cpp import cpp_message
     61     _NewMessage = cpp_message.NewMessage
     62     _InitMessage = cpp_message.InitMessage
     63   else:
     64     from google.protobuf.internal import cpp_message
     65     _NewMessage = cpp_message.NewMessage
     66     _InitMessage = cpp_message.InitMessage
     67 else:
     68   from google.protobuf.internal import python_message
     69   _NewMessage = python_message.NewMessage
     70   _InitMessage = python_message.InitMessage
     71 
     72 
     73 class GeneratedProtocolMessageType(type):
     74 
     75   """Metaclass for protocol message classes created at runtime from Descriptors.
     76 
     77   We add implementations for all methods described in the Message class.  We
     78   also create properties to allow getting/setting all fields in the protocol
     79   message.  Finally, we create slots to prevent users from accidentally
     80   "setting" nonexistent fields in the protocol message, which then wouldn't get
     81   serialized / deserialized properly.
     82 
     83   The protocol compiler currently uses this metaclass to create protocol
     84   message classes at runtime.  Clients can also manually create their own
     85   classes at runtime, as in this example:
     86 
     87   mydescriptor = Descriptor(.....)
     88   class MyProtoClass(Message):
     89     __metaclass__ = GeneratedProtocolMessageType
     90     DESCRIPTOR = mydescriptor
     91   myproto_instance = MyProtoClass()
     92   myproto.foo_field = 23
     93   ...
     94   """
     95 
     96   # Must be consistent with the protocol-compiler code in
     97   # proto2/compiler/internal/generator.*.
     98   _DESCRIPTOR_KEY = 'DESCRIPTOR'
     99 
    100   def __new__(cls, name, bases, dictionary):
    101     """Custom allocation for runtime-generated class types.
    102 
    103     We override __new__ because this is apparently the only place
    104     where we can meaningfully set __slots__ on the class we're creating(?).
    105     (The interplay between metaclasses and slots is not very well-documented).
    106 
    107     Args:
    108       name: Name of the class (ignored, but required by the
    109         metaclass protocol).
    110       bases: Base classes of the class we're constructing.
    111         (Should be message.Message).  We ignore this field, but
    112         it's required by the metaclass protocol
    113       dictionary: The class dictionary of the class we're
    114         constructing.  dictionary[_DESCRIPTOR_KEY] must contain
    115         a Descriptor object describing this protocol message
    116         type.
    117 
    118     Returns:
    119       Newly-allocated class.
    120     """
    121     descriptor = dictionary[GeneratedProtocolMessageType._DESCRIPTOR_KEY]
    122     bases = _NewMessage(bases, descriptor, dictionary)
    123     superclass = super(GeneratedProtocolMessageType, cls)
    124 
    125     new_class = superclass.__new__(cls, name, bases, dictionary)
    126     setattr(descriptor, '_concrete_class', new_class)
    127     return new_class
    128 
    129   def __init__(cls, name, bases, dictionary):
    130     """Here we perform the majority of our work on the class.
    131     We add enum getters, an __init__ method, implementations
    132     of all Message methods, and properties for all fields
    133     in the protocol type.
    134 
    135     Args:
    136       name: Name of the class (ignored, but required by the
    137         metaclass protocol).
    138       bases: Base classes of the class we're constructing.
    139         (Should be message.Message).  We ignore this field, but
    140         it's required by the metaclass protocol
    141       dictionary: The class dictionary of the class we're
    142         constructing.  dictionary[_DESCRIPTOR_KEY] must contain
    143         a Descriptor object describing this protocol message
    144         type.
    145     """
    146     descriptor = dictionary[GeneratedProtocolMessageType._DESCRIPTOR_KEY]
    147     _InitMessage(descriptor, cls)
    148     superclass = super(GeneratedProtocolMessageType, cls)
    149     superclass.__init__(name, bases, dictionary)
    150 
    151 
    152 def ParseMessage(descriptor, byte_str):
    153   """Generate a new Message instance from this Descriptor and a byte string.
    154 
    155   Args:
    156     descriptor: Protobuf Descriptor object
    157     byte_str: Serialized protocol buffer byte string
    158 
    159   Returns:
    160     Newly created protobuf Message object.
    161   """
    162 
    163   class _ResultClass(message.Message):
    164     __metaclass__ = GeneratedProtocolMessageType
    165     DESCRIPTOR = descriptor
    166 
    167   new_msg = _ResultClass()
    168   new_msg.ParseFromString(byte_str)
    169   return new_msg
    170