"""A dumb and slow but simple dbm clone.
For database spam, spam.dir contains the index (a text file),
spam.bak *may* contain a backup of the index (also a text file),
while spam.dat contains the data (a binary file).
- seems to contain a bug when updating...
- reclaim free space (currently, space once occupied by deleted or expanded
- support concurrent access (currently, if two processes take turns making
updates, they can mess up the index)
- support efficient access to large databases (currently, the whole index
is read when the database is opened, and some updates rewrite the whole index)
- support opening for read-only (flag = 'm')
error = IOError # For anydbm
class _Database(UserDict.DictMixin):
# The on-disk directory and data files can remain in mutually
# inconsistent states for an arbitrarily long time (see comments
# at the end of __setitem__). This is only repaired when _commit()
# gets called. One place _commit() gets called is from __del__(),
# and if that occurs at program shutdown time, module globals may
# already have gotten rebound to None. Since it's crucial that
# _commit() finish successfully, we can't ignore shutdown races
# here, and _commit() must not reference any globals.
_os = _os # for _commit()
_open = _open # for _commit()
def __init__(self, filebasename, mode, flag='c'):
self._readonly = (flag == 'r')
# The directory file is a text file. Each line looks like
# "%r, (%d, %d)\n" % (key, pos, siz)
# where key is the string key, pos is the offset into the dat
# file of the associated value's first byte, and siz is the number
# of bytes in the associated value.
self._dirfile = filebasename + _os.extsep + 'dir'
# The data file is a binary file pointed into by the directory
# file, and holds the values associated with keys. Each value
# begins at a _BLOCKSIZE-aligned byte offset, and is a raw
# binary 8-bit string value.
self._datfile = filebasename + _os.extsep + 'dat'
self._bakfile = filebasename + _os.extsep + 'bak'
# The index is an in-memory dict, mirroring the directory file.
self._index = None # maps keys to (pos, siz) pairs
# Mod by Jack: create data file if needed
f = _open(self._datfile, 'r')
with _open(self._datfile, 'w') as f:
self._chmod(self._datfile)
# Read directory file into the in-memory index dict.
self._modified = not self._readonly
key, pos_and_siz_pair = _ast.literal_eval(line)
self._index[key] = pos_and_siz_pair
# Write the index dict to the directory file. The original directory
# file (if any) is renamed with a .bak extension first. If a .bak
# file currently exists, it's deleted.
# CAUTION: It's vital that _commit() succeed, and _commit() can
# be called from __del__(). Therefore we must never reference a
# global in this routine.
if self._index is None or not self._modified:
self._os.unlink(self._bakfile)
self._os.rename(self._dirfile, self._bakfile)
with self._open(self._dirfile, 'w') as f:
self._chmod(self._dirfile)
for key, pos_and_siz_pair in self._index.iteritems():
f.write("%r, %r\n" % (key, pos_and_siz_pair))
def __getitem__(self, key):
pos, siz = self._index[key] # may raise KeyError
with _open(self._datfile, 'rb') as f:
# Append val to the data file, starting at a _BLOCKSIZE-aligned
# offset. The data file is first padded with NUL bytes (if needed)
# to get to an aligned offset. Return pair
# (starting offset of val, len(val))
with _open(self._datfile, 'rb+') as f:
npos = ((pos + _BLOCKSIZE - 1) // _BLOCKSIZE) * _BLOCKSIZE
# Write val to the data file, starting at offset pos. The caller
# is responsible for ensuring that there's enough room starting at
# pos to hold val, without overwriting some other value. Return
def _setval(self, pos, val):
with _open(self._datfile, 'rb+') as f:
# key is a new key whose associated value starts in the data file
# at offset pos and with length siz. Add an index record to
# the in-memory index dict, and append one to the directory file.
def _addkey(self, key, pos_and_siz_pair):
self._index[key] = pos_and_siz_pair
with _open(self._dirfile, 'a') as f:
self._chmod(self._dirfile)
f.write("%r, %r\n" % (key, pos_and_siz_pair))
def __setitem__(self, key, val):
if not type(key) == type('') == type(val):
raise TypeError, "keys and values must be strings"
if key not in self._index:
self._addkey(key, self._addval(val))
# See whether the new value is small enough to fit in the
# (padded) space currently occupied by the old value.
pos, siz = self._index[key]
oldblocks = (siz + _BLOCKSIZE - 1) // _BLOCKSIZE
newblocks = (len(val) + _BLOCKSIZE - 1) // _BLOCKSIZE
if newblocks <= oldblocks:
self._index[key] = self._setval(pos, val)
# The new value doesn't fit in the (padded) space used
# by the old value. The blocks used by the old value are
self._index[key] = self._addval(val)
# Note that _index may be out of synch with the directory
# file now: _setval() and _addval() don't update the directory
# file. This also means that the on-disk directory and data
# files are in a mutually inconsistent state, and they'll
# remain that way until _commit() is called. Note that this
# is a disaster (for the database) if the program crashes
# (so that _commit() never gets called).
def __delitem__(self, key):
# The blocks used by the associated value are lost.
# XXX It's unclear why we do a _commit() here (the code always
# XXX has, so I'm not changing it). _setitem__ doesn't try to
# XXX keep the directory file in synch. Why should we? Or
# XXX why shouldn't __setitem__?
return self._index.keys()
return key in self._index
def __contains__(self, key):
return key in self._index
return self._index.iterkeys()
self._index = self._datfile = self._dirfile = self._bakfile = None
if hasattr(self._os, 'chmod'):
self._os.chmod(file, self._mode)
def open(file, flag=None, mode=0666):
"""Open the database file, filename, and return corresponding object.
The flag argument, used to control how the database is opened in the
other DBM implementations, is ignored in the dumbdbm module; the
database is always opened for update, and will be created if it does
The optional mode argument is the UNIX mode of the file, used only when
the database has to be created. It defaults to octal code 0666 (and
will be modified by the prevailing umask).
# flag argument is currently ignored
# Modify mode depending on the umask
# Turn off any bits that are set in the umask
return _Database(file, mode, flag)