mongo-python-driver/pymongo/binary.py

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# Copyright 2009 10gen, Inc.
#
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"""Tools for representing binary data to be stored in MongoDB.
"""
class Binary(str):
"""Representation of binary data to be stored in or retrieved from MongoDB.
This is necessary because we want to store Python strings as the BSON
string type. We need to wrap binary data so we can tell the difference
between what should be considered binary data and what should be considered
a string when we encode to BSON.
Raises TypeError if `data` is not an instance of str or `subtype` is
not an instance of int. Raises ValueError if `subtype` is not in [0, 256).
:Parameters:
- `data`: the binary data to represent
- `subtype` (optional): the `binary subtype
<http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/BSON#BSON-noteondatabinary>`_
to use
"""
def __new__(cls, data, subtype=2):
if not isinstance(data, str):
raise TypeError("data must be an instance of str")
if not isinstance(subtype, int):
raise TypeError("subtype must be an instance of int")
if subtype >= 256 or subtype < 0:
raise ValueError("subtype must be contained in [0, 256)")
self = str.__new__(cls, data)
self.__subtype = subtype
return self
@property
def subtype(self):
"""Subtype of this binary data.
"""
return self.__subtype
def __eq__(self, other):
if isinstance(other, Binary):
return (self.__subtype, str(self)) == (other.subtype, str(other))
# We don't return NotImplemented here because if we did then
# Binary("foo") == "foo" would return True, since Binary is a subclass
# of str...
return False
def __repr__(self):
return "Binary(%s, %s)" % (str.__repr__(self), self.__subtype)