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diff --git a/gluster/gfapi.py b/gluster/gfapi.py
index c409f62..6fed798 100755
--- a/gluster/gfapi.py
+++ b/gluster/gfapi.py
@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ _populate_mode_to_flags_dict()
class File(object):
def __init__(self, fd, path=None, mode=None):
+ """
+ Create a File object equivalent to Python's built-in File object.
+
+ :param fd: glfd pointer
+ :param path: Path of the file. This is optional.
+ :param mode: The I/O mode of the file.
+ """
self.fd = fd
self.originalpath = path
self._mode = mode
@@ -61,25 +68,44 @@ class File(object):
@property
def fileno(self):
+ """
+ Return the internal file descriptor (glfd) that is used by the
+ underlying implementation to request I/O operations.
+ """
# TODO: Make self.fd private (self._fd)
return self.fd
@property
def mode(self):
+ """
+ The I/O mode for the file. If the file was created using the
+ Volume.fopen() function, this will be the value of the mode
+ parameter. This is a read-only attribute.
+ """
return self._mode
@property
def name(self):
+ """
+ If the file object was created using Volume.fopen(),
+ the name of the file.
+ """
return self.originalpath
@property
def closed(self):
+ """
+ Bool indicating the current state of the file object. This is a
+ read-only attribute; the close() method changes the value.
+ """
return self._closed
def close(self):
"""
Close the file. A closed file cannot be read or written any more.
Calling close() more than once is allowed.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
if not self._closed:
ret = api.glfs_close(self.fd)
@@ -88,13 +114,32 @@ class File(object):
raise OSError(err, os.strerror(err))
self._closed = True
- def discard(self, offset, len):
- ret = api.glfs_discard(self.fd, offset, len)
+ def discard(self, offset, length):
+ """
+ This is similar to UNMAP command that is used to return the
+ unused/freed blocks back to the storage system. In this
+ implementation, fallocate with FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is used to
+ eventually release the blocks to the filesystem. If the brick has
+ been mounted with '-o discard' option, then the discard request
+ will eventually reach the SCSI storage if the storage device
+ supports UNMAP.
+
+ :param offset: Starting offset
+ :param len: Length or size in bytes to discard
+ :raises: OSError on failure
+ """
+ ret = api.glfs_discard(self.fd, offset, length)
if ret < 0:
err = ctypes.get_errno()
raise OSError(err, os.strerror(err))
def dup(self):
+ """
+ Return a duplicate of File object. This duplicate File class instance
+ encapsulates a duplicate glfd obtained by invoking glfs_dup().
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
+ """
dupfd = api.glfs_dup(self.fd)
if not dupfd:
err = ctypes.get_errno()
@@ -112,6 +157,7 @@ class File(object):
:param mode: Operation to be performed on the given range
:param offset: Starting offset
:param length: Size in bytes, starting at offset
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_fallocate(self.fd, mode, offset, length)
if ret < 0:
@@ -123,6 +169,7 @@ class File(object):
Change this file's mode
:param mode: new mode
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_fchmod(self.fd, mode)
if ret < 0:
@@ -135,6 +182,7 @@ class File(object):
:param uid: new user id for file
:param gid: new group id for file
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_fchown(self.fd, uid, gid)
if ret < 0:
@@ -145,6 +193,8 @@ class File(object):
"""
Flush buffer cache pages pertaining to data, but not the ones
pertaining to metadata.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_fdatasync(self.fd)
if ret < 0:
@@ -170,6 +220,7 @@ class File(object):
If size is non-zero, it is assumed the caller knows
the size of xattr.
:returns: Value of extended attribute corresponding to key specified.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
if size == 0:
size = api.glfs_fgetxattr(self.fd, key, None, size)
@@ -193,6 +244,7 @@ class File(object):
If size is non-zero, it is assumed the caller knows
the size of the list.
:returns: List of extended attributes.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
if size == 0:
size = api.glfs_flistxattr(self.fd, None, 0)
@@ -229,13 +281,14 @@ class File(object):
:param key: The key of extended attribute.
:param value: The valiue of extended attribute.
- :param flags: Possible values are 0 (default), 1 and 2
- 0: xattr will be created if it does not exist, or the
- value will be replaced if the xattr exists.
- 1: Perform a pure create, which fails if the named
- attribute already exists.
- 2: Perform a pure replace operation, which fails if the
- named attribute does not already exist.
+ :param flags: Possible values are 0 (default), 1 and 2.
+ If 0 - xattr will be created if it does not exist, or
+ the value will be replaced if the xattr exists. If 1 -
+ it performs a pure create, which fails if the named
+ attribute already exists. If 2 - it performs a pure
+ replace operation, which fails if the named attribute
+ does not already exist.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_fsetxattr(self.fd, key, value, len(value), flags)
if ret < 0:
@@ -247,6 +300,7 @@ class File(object):
Remove a extended attribute of the file.
:param key: The key of extended attribute.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_fremovexattr(self.fd, key)
if ret < 0:
@@ -258,6 +312,7 @@ class File(object):
Returns Stat object for this file.
:return: Returns the stat information of the file.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
s = api.Stat()
rc = api.glfs_fstat(self.fd, ctypes.byref(s))
@@ -269,6 +324,8 @@ class File(object):
def fsync(self):
"""
Flush buffer cache pages pertaining to data and metadata.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_fsync(self.fd)
if ret < 0:
@@ -284,6 +341,7 @@ class File(object):
extended part reads as null bytes.
:param length: Length to truncate the file to in bytes.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_ftruncate(self.fd, length)
if ret < 0:
@@ -301,6 +359,7 @@ class File(object):
to the current position and SEEK_END sets the position
relative to the end of the file.
:returns: the new offset position
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_lseek(self.fd, pos, how)
if ret < 0:
@@ -315,6 +374,7 @@ class File(object):
:param buflen: length of read buffer. If less than 0, then whole
file is read. Default is -1.
:returns: buffer of 'size' length
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
if size < 0:
size = self.fgetsize()
@@ -339,7 +399,8 @@ class File(object):
it's invoked, readinto() copies data to an already allocated
buffer passed to it.
- Returns the number of bytes read (0 for EOF).
+ :returns: the number of bytes read (0 for EOF).
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
if type(buf) is bytearray:
buf_ptr = (ctypes.c_ubyte * len(buf)).from_buffer(buf)
@@ -358,6 +419,7 @@ class File(object):
:param data: The data to be written to file.
:returns: The size in bytes actually written
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
# creating a ctypes.c_ubyte buffer to handle converting bytearray
# to the required C data type
@@ -373,6 +435,13 @@ class File(object):
return ret
def zerofill(self, offset, length):
+ """
+ Fill 'length' number of bytes with zeroes starting from 'offset'.
+
+ :param offset: Start at offset location
+ :param length: Size/length in bytes
+ :raises: OSError on failure
+ """
ret = api.glfs_zerofill(self.fd, offset, length)
if ret < 0:
err = ctypes.get_errno()
@@ -422,11 +491,12 @@ class Volume(object):
:param log_level: Integer specifying the degree of verbosity.
Higher the value, more verbose the logging.
- TODO: Provide an interface where user can specify volfile directly
- instead of providing host and other details. This is helpful in cases
- where user wants to load some non default xlator on client side. For
- example, aux-gfid-mount or mount volume as read-only.
"""
+ # TODO: Provide an interface where user can specify volfile directly
+ # instead of providing host and other details. This is helpful in cases
+ # where user wants to load some non default xlator on client side. For
+ # example, aux-gfid-mount or mount volume as read-only.
+
# Add a reference so the module-level variable "api" doesn't
# get yanked out from under us (see comment above File def'n).
self._api = api
@@ -451,11 +521,18 @@ class Volume(object):
@property
def mounted(self):
+ """
+ Read-only attribute that returns True if the volume is mounted.
+ The value of the attribute is internally changed on invoking
+ mount() and umount() functions.
+ """
return self._mounted
def mount(self):
"""
Mount a GlusterFS volume for use.
+
+ :raises: LibgfapiException on failure
"""
if self.fs and self._mounted:
# Already mounted
@@ -493,6 +570,8 @@ class Volume(object):
Provides users a way to free resources instead of just waiting for
python garbage collector to call __del__() at some point later.
+
+ :raises: LibgfapiException on failure
"""
if self.fs:
ret = self._api.glfs_fini(self.fs)
@@ -561,6 +640,7 @@ class Volume(object):
Change the current working directory to the given path.
:param path: Path to change current working directory to
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_chdir(self.fs, path)
if ret < 0:
@@ -572,8 +652,8 @@ class Volume(object):
Change mode of path
:param path: the item to be modified
- :mode: new mode
- :returns: 0 if success, raises OSError if it fails
+ :param mode: new mode
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_chmod(self.fs, path, mode)
if ret < 0:
@@ -584,10 +664,10 @@ class Volume(object):
"""
Change owner and group id of path
- :param path: the item to be modified
- :param uid: new user id for item
- :param gid: new group id for item
- :returns: 0 if success, raises OSError if it fails
+ :param path: the path to be modified
+ :param uid: new user id for path
+ :param gid: new group id for path
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_chown(self.fs, path, uid, gid)
if ret < 0:
@@ -596,8 +676,10 @@ class Volume(object):
def exists(self, path):
"""
- Test whether a path exists.
- Returns False for broken symbolic links.
+ Returns True if path refers to an existing path. Returns False for
+ broken symbolic links. This function may return False if permission is
+ not granted to execute stat() on the requested file, even if the path
+ physically exists.
"""
try:
self.stat(path)
@@ -607,15 +689,15 @@ class Volume(object):
def getatime(self, path):
"""
- Returns the last access time as reported by stat
+ Returns the last access time as reported by stat()
"""
return self.stat(path).st_atime
def getctime(self, path):
"""
- Returns the time when changes were made to the path as reported by stat
- This time is updated when changes are made to the file or dir's inode
- or the contents of the file
+ Returns the time when changes were made to the path as reported by
+ stat(). This time is updated when changes are made to the file or
+ dir's inode or the contents of the file
"""
return self.stat(path).st_ctime
@@ -634,15 +716,15 @@ class Volume(object):
def getmtime(self, path):
"""
Returns the time when changes were made to the content of the path
- as reported by stat
+ as reported by stat()
"""
return self.stat(path).st_mtime
- def getsize(self, filename):
+ def getsize(self, path):
"""
- Return the size of a file, reported by stat()
+ Return the size of a file in bytes, reported by stat()
"""
- return self.stat(filename).st_size
+ return self.stat(path).st_size
def getxattr(self, path, key, size=0):
"""
@@ -656,6 +738,7 @@ class Volume(object):
If size is non-zero, it is assumed the caller knows
the size of xattr.
:returns: Value of extended attribute corresponding to key specified.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
if size == 0:
size = api.glfs_getxattr(self.fs, path, key, None, 0)
@@ -672,7 +755,8 @@ class Volume(object):
def isdir(self, path):
"""
- Test whether a path is an existing directory
+ Returns True if path is an existing directory. Returns False on all
+ failure cases including when path does not exist.
"""
try:
s = self.stat(path)
@@ -682,7 +766,8 @@ class Volume(object):
def isfile(self, path):
"""
- Test whether a path is a regular file
+ Return True if path is an existing regular file. Returns False on all
+ failure cases including when path does not exist.
"""
try:
s = self.stat(path)
@@ -692,7 +777,9 @@ class Volume(object):
def islink(self, path):
"""
- Test whether a path is a symbolic link
+ Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic
+ link. Returns False on all failure cases including when path does
+ not exist.
"""
try:
s = self.lstat(path)
@@ -702,8 +789,10 @@ class Volume(object):
def listdir(self, path):
"""
- Return list of entries in a given directory 'path'.
- "." and ".." are not included, and the list is not sorted.
+ Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory
+ given by path. The list is in arbitrary order. It does not include
+ the special entries '.' and '..' even if they are present in the
+ directory.
"""
dir_list = []
d = self.opendir(path)
@@ -712,7 +801,7 @@ class Volume(object):
if not isinstance(ent, api.Dirent):
break
name = ent.d_name[:ent.d_reclen]
- if name not in [".", ".."]:
+ if name not in (".", ".."):
dir_list.append(name)
return dir_list
@@ -726,6 +815,7 @@ class Volume(object):
If size is non-zero, it is assumed the caller knows
the size of the list.
:returns: List of extended attribute keys.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
if size == 0:
size = api.glfs_listxattr(self.fs, path, None, 0)
@@ -761,6 +851,8 @@ class Volume(object):
Return stat information of path. If path is a symbolic link, then it
returns information about the link itself, not the file that it refers
to.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
s = api.Stat()
rc = api.glfs_lstat(self.fs, path, ctypes.byref(s))
@@ -769,11 +861,17 @@ class Volume(object):
raise OSError(err, os.strerror(err))
return s
- def makedirs(self, name, mode=0777):
+ def makedirs(self, path, mode=0777):
"""
- Create directories defined in 'name' recursively.
+ Recursive directory creation function. Like mkdir(), but makes all
+ intermediate-level directories needed to contain the leaf directory.
+ The default mode is 0777 (octal).
+
+ :raises: OSError if the leaf directory already exists or cannot be
+ created. Can also raise OSError if creation of any non-leaf
+ directories fails.
"""
- head, tail = os.path.split(name)
+ head, tail = os.path.split(path)
if not tail:
head, tail = os.path.split(head)
if head and tail and not self.exists(head):
@@ -784,11 +882,14 @@ class Volume(object):
raise
if tail == os.curdir:
return
- self.mkdir(name, mode)
+ self.mkdir(path, mode)
def mkdir(self, path, mode=0777):
"""
- Create a directory
+ Create a directory named path with numeric mode mode.
+ The default mode is 0777 (octal).
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_mkdir(self.fs, path, mode)
if ret < 0:
@@ -803,9 +904,21 @@ class Volume(object):
and it does NOT invoke glibc's fopen and does NOT do any kind of
I/O bufferring as of today.
+ The most commonly-used values of mode are 'r' for reading, 'w' for
+ writing (truncating the file if it already exists), and 'a' for
+ appending. If mode is omitted, it defaults to 'r'.
+
+ Modes 'r+', 'w+' and 'a+' open the file for updating (reading and
+ writing); note that 'w+' truncates the file.
+
+ Append 'b' to the mode to open the file in binary mode but this has
+ no effect as of today.
+
:param path: Path of file to be opened
:param mode: Mode to open the file with. This is a string.
:returns: an instance of File class
+ :raises: OSError on failure to create/open file.
+ TypeError and ValueError if mode is invalid.
"""
if not isinstance(mode, basestring):
raise TypeError("Mode must be a string")
@@ -834,8 +947,10 @@ class Volume(object):
:param flags: Integer which flags must include one of the following
access modes: os.O_RDONLY, os.O_WRONLY, or os.O_RDWR.
:param mode: specifies the permissions to use in case a new
- file is created.
- :returns: the raw glfd
+ file is created. The default mode is 0777 (octal)
+ :returns: the raw glfd (pointer to memory in C, number in python)
+ :raises: OSError on failure to create/open file.
+ TypeError if flags is not an integer.
"""
if not isinstance(flags, int):
raise TypeError("flags must evaluate to an integer")
@@ -856,6 +971,7 @@ class Volume(object):
:param path: Path to the directory
:returns: Returns a instance of Dir class
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
fd = api.glfs_opendir(self.fs, path)
if not fd:
@@ -865,10 +981,12 @@ class Volume(object):
def readlink(self, path):
"""
- Read contents of symbolic link path.
+ Return a string representing the path to which the symbolic link
+ points. The result may be either an absolute or relative pathname.
:param path: Path of symbolic link
:returns: Contents of symlink
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
PATH_MAX = 4096
buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(PATH_MAX)
@@ -880,17 +998,20 @@ class Volume(object):
def remove(self, path):
"""
- Remove (delete) the file path. If path is a directory,
- OSError is raised.
+ Remove (delete) the file path. If path is a directory, OSError
+ is raised. This is identical to the unlink() function.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
return self.unlink(path)
def removexattr(self, path, key):
"""
- Remove a extended attribute of the file.
+ Remove a extended attribute of the path.
:param path: Path to the file or directory.
:param key: The key of extended attribute.
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_removexattr(self.fs, path, key)
if ret < 0:
@@ -899,7 +1020,11 @@ class Volume(object):
def rename(self, src, dst):
"""
- Rename the file or directory from src to dst.
+ Rename the file or directory from src to dst. If dst is a directory,
+ OSError will be raised. If dst exists and is a file, it will be
+ replaced silently if the user has permission.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_rename(self.fs, src, dst)
if ret < 0:
@@ -911,6 +1036,8 @@ class Volume(object):
Remove (delete) the directory path. Only works when the directory is
empty, otherwise, OSError is raised. In order to remove whole
directory trees, rmtree() can be used.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_rmdir(self.fs, path)
if ret < 0:
@@ -930,6 +1057,7 @@ class Volume(object):
to fail; and exc is the exception that was raised.
If ignore_errors is False and onerror is None, an
exception is raised
+ :raises: OSError on failure if onerror is None
"""
if ignore_errors:
def onerror(*args):
@@ -963,6 +1091,8 @@ class Volume(object):
setfsuid() changes the value of the caller's filesystem user ID-the
user ID that the Linux kernel uses to check for all accesses to the
filesystem.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_setfsuid(uid)
if ret < 0:
@@ -974,6 +1104,8 @@ class Volume(object):
setfsgid() changes the value of the caller's filesystem group ID-the
group ID that the Linux kernel uses to check for all accesses to the
filesystem.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_setfsgid(gid)
if ret < 0:
@@ -987,13 +1119,15 @@ class Volume(object):
:param path: Path to file or directory.
:param key: The key of extended attribute.
:param value: The valiue of extended attribute.
- :param flags: Possible values are 0 (default), 1 and 2
- 0: xattr will be created if it does not exist, or the
- value will be replaced if the xattr exists.
- 1: Perform a pure create, which fails if the named
- attribute already exists.
- 2: Perform a pure replace operation, which fails if the
- named attribute does not already exist.
+ :param flags: Possible values are 0 (default), 1 and 2.
+ If 0 - xattr will be created if it does not exist, or
+ the value will be replaced if the xattr exists. If 1 -
+ it performs a pure create, which fails if the named
+ attribute already exists. If 2 - it performs a pure
+ replace operation, which fails if the named attribute
+ does not already exist.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_setxattr(self.fs, path, key, value, len(value), flags)
if ret < 0:
@@ -1003,6 +1137,8 @@ class Volume(object):
def stat(self, path):
"""
Returns stat information of path.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
s = api.Stat()
rc = api.glfs_stat(self.fs, path, ctypes.byref(s))
@@ -1015,6 +1151,14 @@ class Volume(object):
"""
Returns information about a mounted glusterfs volume. path is the
pathname of any file within the mounted filesystem.
+
+ :returns: An object whose attributes describe the filesystem on the
+ given path, and correspond to the members of the statvfs
+ structure, namely: f_bsize, f_frsize, f_blocks, f_bfree,
+ f_bavail, f_files, f_ffree, f_favail, f_fsid, f_flag,
+ and f_namemax.
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
s = api.Statvfs()
rc = api.glfs_statvfs(self.fs, path, ctypes.byref(s))
@@ -1026,6 +1170,8 @@ class Volume(object):
def symlink(self, source, link_name):
"""
Create a symbolic link 'link_name' which points to 'source'
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_symlink(self.fs, source, link_name)
if ret < 0:
@@ -1036,8 +1182,7 @@ class Volume(object):
"""
Delete the file 'path'
- :param path: file to be deleted
- :returns: 0 if success, raises OSError if it fails
+ :raises: OSError on failure
"""
ret = api.glfs_unlink(self.fs, path)
if ret < 0:
@@ -1052,6 +1197,10 @@ class Volume(object):
touch on the path.) Otherwise, times must be a 2-tuple of numbers,
of the form (atime, mtime) which is used to set the access and
modified times, respectively.
+
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure to change time.
+ TypeError if invalid times is passed.
"""
if times is None:
now = time.time()
@@ -1084,7 +1233,11 @@ class Volume(object):
dirpath is the path to the directory, dirnames is a list of the names
of the subdirectories in dirpath. filenames is a list of the names of
the non-directiry files in dirpath
+
+ :raises: OSError on failure if onerror is None
"""
+ # TODO: Write a more efficient walk by leveraging d_type information
+ # returned in readdir.
try:
names = self.listdir(top)
except OSError as err: