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core (xml_tools): added a method to find all elements corresponding to criteria
author Goffi <goffi@goffi.org>
date Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:24:17 +0100
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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# SAT: a jabber client
# Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Jérôme Poisson (goffi@goffi.org)

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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""" tools common to backend and frontends """

from sat.core import exceptions


def dict2iter(name, dict_, pop=False):
    """iterate into a list serialised in a dict

    name is the name of the key.
    Serialisation is done with [name] [name#1] [name#2] and so on
    e.g.: if name is 'group', keys are group, group#1, group#2, ...
    iteration stop at first missing increment
    Empty values are possible
    @param name(unicode): name of the key
    @param mb_data (dict): dictionary with the serialised list
    @param pop(bool): if True, remove the value from dict
    @return iter: iterate through the deserialised list
    """
    if pop:
        get=lambda d,k: d.pop(k)
    else:
        get=lambda d,k: d[k]

    try:
        yield get(dict_,name)
    except KeyError:
        return
    else:
        idx = 1
        while True:
            try:
                yield get(dict_,u'{}#{}'.format(name, idx))
            except KeyError:
                return
            else:
                idx += 1

def iter2dict(name, iter_, dict_=None, check_conflict=True):
    """Fill a dict with values from an iterable

    name is used to serialise iter_, in the same way as in [dict2iter]
    Build from the tags a dict using the microblog data format.

    @param name(unicode): key to use for serialisation
        e.g. "group" to have keys "group", "group#1", "group#2", ...
    @param iter_(iterable): values to store
    @param dict_(None, dict): dictionary to fill, or None to create one
    @param check_conflict(bool): if True, raise an exception in case of existing key
    @return (dict): filled dict, or newly created one
    @raise exceptions.ConflictError: a needed key already exists
    """
    if dict_ is None:
        dict_ = {}
    for idx, value in enumerate(iter_):
        if idx == 0:
            key = name
        else:
            key = u'{}#{}'.format(name, idx)
        if check_conflict and key in dict_:
            raise exceptions.ConflictError
        dict_[key] = value
    return dict