Cap'n Proto provides a schema loader, which can be used to dynamically
load schemas during runtime. To port this functionality to pycapnp,
a new class is provided `C_SchemaLoader`, which exposes the Cap'n
Proto C++ interface, and `SchemaLoader`, which is part of the pycapnp
library.
The specific use case for this is when a capnp message contains
a Node.Reader: The schema for a yet unseen message can be loaded
dynamically, allowing the future message to be properly processed.
If the message is a struct containing other structs, all the schemas for
every struct must be loaded to correctly parse the message. See
https://github.com/DaneSlattery/capnp_generic_poc for a
proof-of-concept.
Add docs and cleanup
Add more docs
Reduce changes
Fix flake8 formatting
Fix get datatype
- Includes some test stabilization
- Fixes manylinux2010 build issues (linker flag order due to old gcc)
- More rigorous python setup.py clean
- Requires capnproto v0.8.0 or greater
- Including system libcapnp include path for import (e.g. import
stream_capnp)
- Bundle libcapnp .capnp files when not using system libcapnp
- Removing more distutils usage. Now using pkg-config to determine the
system version of libcapnp (mainly for Linux, but should work on macOS
with brew)
- Removed dead code
Resolves issues #215#216#217
Lots of fixes for Issue #218 (all sorts of retry methods needed for
GitHub Actions)
- Needed to include cleanup_global_schema_parser() to handle duplicate
imports of the same .capnp file
* Duplicate IDs are a problem as pytest does not fully cleanup between
tests
- Marked some tests as xfail as I'm not sure the test is supposed to
work anymore with recent versions of capnproto
flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics --exclude benchmark
Excluding the benchmark directory (due to protobuf generated files)
Also removing some Python2 specific code
* Change from using Nature/Durability to Type
* Prefer to raise KjException directly instead of Value/RuntimError.
* Will still raise AttributeError appropriately.
Any module with underscores in it will now attempt to look for 3 files,
first the original, then with dashes, then with spaces, ie:
import addressbook_v_2_capnp
will search for 'addressbook_v_2.capnp', 'addressbook-v-2.capnp', and
'addressbook v 2.capnp'.
