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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
"""Functions for sending and receiving individual lines of text over a socket. | |
A line is transmitted using one or more fixed-size packets of UTF-8 bytes | |
containing: | |
- Zero or more bytes of UTF-8, excluding \n and \0, followed by | |
- Zero or more \0 bytes as required to pad the packet to PACKET_SIZE | |
Originally from the UEDIN team of the ELITR project. | |
""" | |
PACKET_SIZE = 65536 | |
def send_one_line(socket, text, pad_zeros=False): | |
"""Sends a line of text over the given socket. | |
The 'text' argument should contain a single line of text (line break | |
characters are optional). Line boundaries are determined by Python's | |
str.splitlines() function [1]. We also count '\0' as a line terminator. | |
If 'text' contains multiple lines then only the first will be sent. | |
If the send fails then an exception will be raised. | |
[1] https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/stdtypes.html#str.splitlines | |
Args: | |
socket: a socket object. | |
text: string containing a line of text for transmission. | |
""" | |
text.replace('\0', '\n') | |
lines = text.splitlines() | |
first_line = '' if len(lines) == 0 else lines[0] | |
# TODO Is there a better way of handling bad input than 'replace'? | |
data = first_line.encode('utf-8', errors='replace') + b'\n' + (b'\0' if pad_zeros else b'') | |
for offset in range(0, len(data), PACKET_SIZE): | |
bytes_remaining = len(data) - offset | |
if bytes_remaining < PACKET_SIZE: | |
padding_length = PACKET_SIZE - bytes_remaining | |
packet = data[offset:] + (b'\0' * padding_length if pad_zeros else b'') | |
else: | |
packet = data[offset:offset+PACKET_SIZE] | |
socket.sendall(packet) | |
def receive_one_line(socket): | |
"""Receives a line of text from the given socket. | |
This function will (attempt to) receive a single line of text. If data is | |
currently unavailable then it will block until data becomes available or | |
the sender has closed the connection (in which case it will return an | |
empty string). | |
The string should not contain any newline characters, but if it does then | |
only the first line will be returned. | |
Args: | |
socket: a socket object. | |
Returns: | |
A string representing a single line with a terminating newline or | |
None if the connection has been closed. | |
""" | |
data = b'' | |
while True: | |
packet = socket.recv(PACKET_SIZE) | |
if not packet: # Connection has been closed. | |
return None | |
data += packet | |
if b'\0' in packet: | |
break | |
# TODO Is there a better way of handling bad input than 'replace'? | |
text = data.decode('utf-8', errors='replace').strip('\0') | |
lines = text.split('\n') | |
return lines[0] + '\n' | |
def receive_lines(socket): | |
try: | |
data = socket.recv(PACKET_SIZE) | |
except BlockingIOError: | |
return [] | |
if data is None: # Connection has been closed. | |
return None | |
# TODO Is there a better way of handling bad input than 'replace'? | |
text = data.decode('utf-8', errors='replace').strip('\0') | |
lines = text.split('\n') | |
if len(lines)==1 and not lines[0]: | |
return None | |
return lines | |