diff -r 000000000000 -r 2e8eeb919028 configurationengine/source/cone/storage/metadata.py
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+++ b/configurationengine/source/cone/storage/metadata.py	Thu Mar 11 17:04:37 2010 +0200
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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+# All rights reserved.
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+#
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description: 
+#
+
+try:
+    from cElementTree import ElementTree
+except ImportError:
+    try:    
+        from elementtree import ElementTree
+    except ImportError:
+        try:
+            from xml.etree import cElementTree as ElementTree
+        except ImportError:
+            from xml.etree import ElementTree
+import StringIO
+import os
+
+from cone.public import exceptions, persistence
+
+class Metadata(object):
+    """
+    metadata container objectl, which is only a dictionary container
+    """
+    META_ROOT_FILE = 'cpf.rootFile'
+
+    def __init__(self, copyobj=None):
+        """
+        Constructor initializes the default values
+        """
+        self.data = {}
+        if copyobj != None:
+            self.data = copyobj.data.copy()
+        pass
+
+    def get_root_file(self):
+        return self.data.get(self.META_ROOT_FILE,"")
+
+    def set_root_file(self,filename):
+        self.data[self.META_ROOT_FILE] = filename
+
+class MetadataReader(persistence.ConeReader):
+    """
+    Parses a single metadata file
+    """ 
+    class_type = "Metadata"
+    NAMESPACES = ['http://www.nokia.com/xml/ns/confml-core/metadata-2.0']
+    def __init__(self):
+        return
+    
+    def fromstring(self, xml_as_string):
+        meta = Metadata()
+        etree = ElementTree.fromstring(xml_as_string)
+        iter = etree.getiterator("{%s}property" % self.NAMESPACES[0])
+        for elem in iter:
+            (key,value) = self.get_property(elem)
+            meta.data[key] = value
+        return meta
+
+    def get_property(self, elem):
+        key = elem.get('name')
+        value = ''
+        if elem.get('value'): value = elem.get('value')
+        return (key,value)
+
+class MetadataWriter(persistence.ConeWriter):
+    """
+    Writes a single metadata file
+    """ 
+    class_type = "Metadata"
+    NAMESPACES = ['http://www.nokia.com/xml/ns/confml-core/metadata-2.0']
+    DEFAULT_ENCODING = "ASCII"
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.encoding = self.DEFAULT_ENCODING
+        return
+    
+    def tostring(self,obj,indent=True):
+        stringdata =  StringIO.StringIO()
+        self.toresource(obj, stringdata, indent)
+        return stringdata.getvalue()
+    
+    def toresource(self,obj,res,indent=True):
+        root = ElementTree.Element("metadata")
+        root.set('xmlns',self.NAMESPACES[0])
+        if not obj.__class__ == Metadata:
+            raise exceptions.IncorrectClassError('The given object is not a instance of %s' % Metadata)
+        for key in obj.data.keys():
+            prop = ElementTree.SubElement(root,'property')
+            self.set_property(prop, key, obj.data[key])
+        if indent:
+            persistence.indent(root)
+        # some smarter way to implement adding of the encoding to the beginning of file
+        res.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="%s"?>%s' % (self.encoding,os.linesep))
+        ElementTree.ElementTree(root).write(res)
+        
+    def set_property(self, elem, key, value):
+        elem.attrib['name'] = key
+        if value != '':
+            elem.attrib['value'] = value
+        return elem
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