Modules/_xdrmodule.c

/* This module exports part of the C API to the XDR routines into Python.
 * XDR is Sun's eXternal Data Representation, as described in RFC 1014.  This
 * module is used by xdrlib.py to support the float and double data types
 * which are too much of a pain to support in Python directly.  It is
 * not required by xdrlib.py -- when not available, these types aren't
 * supported at the Python layer.  Note that representations that can be
 * implemented solely in Python, are *not* reproduced here.
 *
 * Module version number: 1.0
 *
 * See xdrlib.py for usage notes.
 *
 * Note: this has so far, only been tested on Solaris 2.5 and SGI IRIX 5.3.
 * On these systems, you will need to link with -lnsl for these
 * symbols to be defined.
 */

#include "Python.h"

#include <netconfig.h>
#include <rpc/rpc.h>
#include <rpc/xdr.h>

static PyObject* xdr_error;



static PyObject*
pack_float(self, args)
	PyObject* self;
	PyObject* args;
{
    XDR xdr;
    float value;
    union {                                  /* guarantees proper alignment */
        long dummy;
        char buffer[4];
    } addr;
    PyObject* rtn = NULL;

    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "f", &value))
        return NULL;

    xdrmem_create(&xdr, addr.buffer, 4, XDR_ENCODE);
    if (xdr_float(&xdr, &value))
        rtn = PyString_FromStringAndSize(addr.buffer, 4);
    else
        PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion from float failed");

    xdr_destroy(&xdr);
    return rtn;
}
    
static PyObject*
pack_double(self, args)
	PyObject* self;
	PyObject* args;
{
    XDR xdr;
    double value;
    union {                                  /* guarantees proper alignment */
        long dummy;
        char buffer[8];
    } addr;
    PyObject* rtn = NULL;

    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "d", &value))
        return NULL;

    xdrmem_create(&xdr, addr.buffer, 8, XDR_ENCODE);
    if (xdr_double(&xdr, &value))
        rtn = PyString_FromStringAndSize(addr.buffer, 8);
    else
        PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion from double failed");

    xdr_destroy(&xdr);
    return rtn;
}



static PyObject*
unpack_float(self, args)
	PyObject* self;
	PyObject* args;
{
    XDR xdr;
    float value;
    char* string;
    int strlen;
    PyObject* rtn = NULL;

    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#", &string, &strlen))
        return NULL;

    if (strlen != 4) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "4 byte string expected");
        return NULL;
    }

        /* Python guarantees that the string is 4 byte aligned */
    xdrmem_create(&xdr, (caddr_t)string, 4, XDR_DECODE);
    if (xdr_float(&xdr, &value))
        rtn = Py_BuildValue("f", value);
    else
        PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion to float failed");

    xdr_destroy(&xdr);
    return rtn;
}

    
static PyObject*
unpack_double(self, args)
	PyObject* self;
	PyObject* args;
{
    XDR xdr;
    double value;
    char* string;
    int strlen;
    PyObject* rtn;

    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#", &string, &strlen))
        return NULL;

    if (strlen != 8) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "8 byte string expected");
        return NULL;
    }

        /* Python guarantees that the string is 4 byte aligned */
    xdrmem_create(&xdr, (caddr_t)string, 8, XDR_DECODE);
    if (xdr_double(&xdr, &value))
        rtn = Py_BuildValue("d", value);
    else
        PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion to double failed");

    xdr_destroy(&xdr);
    return rtn;
}



static struct PyMethodDef
xdr_methods[] = {
    {"pack_float",    pack_float,  1},
    {"pack_double",   pack_double, 1},
    {"unpack_float",  unpack_float, 1},
    {"unpack_double", unpack_double, 1},
    {NULL,          NULL,       0}           /* sentinel */
};



void
init_xdr()
{
    PyObject* module;
    PyObject* dict;

    module = Py_InitModule("_xdr", xdr_methods);
    dict = PyModule_GetDict(module);

    xdr_error = PyString_FromString("_xdr.error");
    PyDict_SetItemString(dict, "error", xdr_error);
}