initial import of the packaging package in the standard library
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+"""Spider using the XML-RPC PyPI API.
+
+This module contains the class Client, a spider that can be used to find
+and retrieve distributions from a project index (like the Python Package
+Index), using its XML-RPC API (see documentation of the reference
+implementation at http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc).
+"""
+
+import xmlrpc.client
+
+from packaging import logger
+from packaging.errors import IrrationalVersionError
+from packaging.version import get_version_predicate
+from packaging.pypi.base import BaseClient
+from packaging.pypi.errors import (ProjectNotFound, InvalidSearchField,
+                                   ReleaseNotFound)
+from packaging.pypi.dist import ReleaseInfo
+
+__all__ = ['Client', 'DEFAULT_XMLRPC_INDEX_URL']
+
+DEFAULT_XMLRPC_INDEX_URL = 'http://python.org/pypi'
+
+_SEARCH_FIELDS = ['name', 'version', 'author', 'author_email', 'maintainer',
+                  'maintainer_email', 'home_page', 'license', 'summary',
+                  'description', 'keywords', 'platform', 'download_url']
+
+
+class Client(BaseClient):
+    """Client to query indexes using XML-RPC method calls.
+
+    If no server_url is specified, use the default PyPI XML-RPC URL,
+    defined in the DEFAULT_XMLRPC_INDEX_URL constant::
+
+        >>> client = XMLRPCClient()
+        >>> client.server_url == DEFAULT_XMLRPC_INDEX_URL
+        True
+
+        >>> client = XMLRPCClient("http://someurl/")
+        >>> client.server_url
+        'http://someurl/'
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, server_url=DEFAULT_XMLRPC_INDEX_URL, prefer_final=False,
+                 prefer_source=True):
+        super(Client, self).__init__(prefer_final, prefer_source)
+        self.server_url = server_url
+        self._projects = {}
+
+    def get_release(self, requirements, prefer_final=False):
+        """Return a release with all complete metadata and distribution
+        related informations.
+        """
+        prefer_final = self._get_prefer_final(prefer_final)
+        predicate = get_version_predicate(requirements)
+        releases = self.get_releases(predicate.name)
+        release = releases.get_last(predicate, prefer_final)
+        self.get_metadata(release.name, str(release.version))
+        self.get_distributions(release.name, str(release.version))
+        return release
+
+    def get_releases(self, requirements, prefer_final=None, show_hidden=True,
+                     force_update=False):
+        """Return the list of existing releases for a specific project.
+
+        Cache the results from one call to another.
+
+        If show_hidden is True, return the hidden releases too.
+        If force_update is True, reprocess the index to update the
+        informations (eg. make a new XML-RPC call).
+        ::
+
+            >>> client = XMLRPCClient()
+            >>> client.get_releases('Foo')
+            ['1.1', '1.2', '1.3']
+
+        If no such project exists, raise a ProjectNotFound exception::
+
+            >>> client.get_project_versions('UnexistingProject')
+            ProjectNotFound: UnexistingProject
+
+        """
+        def get_versions(project_name, show_hidden):
+            return self.proxy.package_releases(project_name, show_hidden)
+
+        predicate = get_version_predicate(requirements)
+        prefer_final = self._get_prefer_final(prefer_final)
+        project_name = predicate.name
+        if not force_update and (project_name.lower() in self._projects):
+            project = self._projects[project_name.lower()]
+            if not project.contains_hidden and show_hidden:
+                # if hidden releases are requested, and have an existing
+                # list of releases that does not contains hidden ones
+                all_versions = get_versions(project_name, show_hidden)
+                existing_versions = project.get_versions()
+                hidden_versions = set(all_versions) - set(existing_versions)
+                for version in hidden_versions:
+                    project.add_release(release=ReleaseInfo(project_name,
+                                            version, index=self._index))
+        else:
+            versions = get_versions(project_name, show_hidden)
+            if not versions:
+                raise ProjectNotFound(project_name)
+            project = self._get_project(project_name)
+            project.add_releases([ReleaseInfo(project_name, version,
+                                              index=self._index)
+                                  for version in versions])
+        project = project.filter(predicate)
+        if len(project) == 0:
+            raise ReleaseNotFound("%s" % predicate)
+        project.sort_releases(prefer_final)
+        return project
+
+
+    def get_distributions(self, project_name, version):
+        """Grab informations about distributions from XML-RPC.
+
+        Return a ReleaseInfo object, with distribution-related informations
+        filled in.
+        """
+        url_infos = self.proxy.release_urls(project_name, version)
+        project = self._get_project(project_name)
+        if version not in project.get_versions():
+            project.add_release(release=ReleaseInfo(project_name, version,
+                                                    index=self._index))
+        release = project.get_release(version)
+        for info in url_infos:
+            packagetype = info['packagetype']
+            dist_infos = {'url': info['url'],
+                          'hashval': info['md5_digest'],
+                          'hashname': 'md5',
+                          'is_external': False,
+                          'python_version': info['python_version']}
+            release.add_distribution(packagetype, **dist_infos)
+        return release
+
+    def get_metadata(self, project_name, version):
+        """Retrieve project metadata.
+
+        Return a ReleaseInfo object, with metadata informations filled in.
+        """
+        # to be case-insensitive, get the informations from the XMLRPC API
+        projects = [d['name'] for d in
+                    self.proxy.search({'name': project_name})
+                    if d['name'].lower() == project_name]
+        if len(projects) > 0:
+            project_name = projects[0]
+
+        metadata = self.proxy.release_data(project_name, version)
+        project = self._get_project(project_name)
+        if version not in project.get_versions():
+            project.add_release(release=ReleaseInfo(project_name, version,
+                                                    index=self._index))
+        release = project.get_release(version)
+        release.set_metadata(metadata)
+        return release
+
+    def search_projects(self, name=None, operator="or", **kwargs):
+        """Find using the keys provided in kwargs.
+
+        You can set operator to "and" or "or".
+        """
+        for key in kwargs:
+            if key not in _SEARCH_FIELDS:
+                raise InvalidSearchField(key)
+        if name:
+            kwargs["name"] = name
+        projects = self.proxy.search(kwargs, operator)
+        for p in projects:
+            project = self._get_project(p['name'])
+            try:
+                project.add_release(release=ReleaseInfo(p['name'],
+                    p['version'], metadata={'summary': p['summary']},
+                    index=self._index))
+            except IrrationalVersionError as e:
+                logger.warning("Irrational version error found: %s", e)
+        return [self._projects[p['name'].lower()] for p in projects]
+
+    def get_all_projects(self):
+        """Return the list of all projects registered in the package index"""
+        projects = self.proxy.list_packages()
+        for name in projects:
+            self.get_releases(name, show_hidden=True)
+
+        return [self._projects[name.lower()] for name in set(projects)]
+
+    @property
+    def proxy(self):
+        """Property used to return the XMLRPC server proxy.
+
+        If no server proxy is defined yet, creates a new one::
+
+            >>> client = XmlRpcClient()
+            >>> client.proxy()
+            <ServerProxy for python.org/pypi>
+
+        """
+        if not hasattr(self, '_server_proxy'):
+            self._server_proxy = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy(self.server_url)
+
+        return self._server_proxy