# Copyright 2008 by Michiel de Hoon. All rights reserved. # This code is part of the Biopython distribution and governed by its # license. Please see the LICENSE file that should have been included # as part of this package. """Parser for XML results returned by NCBI's Entrez Utilities. This parser is used by the read() function in Bio.Entrez, and is not intended be used directly. """ # The question is how to represent an XML file as Python objects. Some # XML files returned by NCBI look like lists, others look like dictionaries, # and others look like a mix of lists and dictionaries. # # My approach is to classify each possible element in the XML as a plain # string, an integer, a list, a dictionary, or a structure. The latter is a # dictionary where the same key can occur multiple times; in Python, it is # represented as a dictionary where that key occurs once, pointing to a list # of values found in the XML file. # # The parser then goes through the XML and creates the appropriate Python # object for each element. The different levels encountered in the XML are # preserved on the Python side. So a subelement of a subelement of an element # is a value in a dictionary that is stored in a list which is a value in # some other dictionary (or a value in a list which itself belongs to a list # which is a value in a dictionary, and so on). Attributes encountered in # the XML are stored as a dictionary in a member .attributes of each element, # and the tag name is saved in a member .tag. # # To decide which kind of Python object corresponds to each element in the # XML, the parser analyzes the DTD referred at the top of (almost) every # XML file returned by the Entrez Utilities. This is preferred over a hand- # written solution, since the number of DTDs is rather large and their # contents may change over time. About half the code in this parser deals # wih parsing the DTD, and the other half with the XML itself. import os import warnings from xml.parsers import expat from io import BytesIO #Importing these functions with leading underscore as not intended for reuse from Bio._py3k import urlopen as _urlopen from Bio._py3k import urlparse as _urlparse from Bio._py3k import unicode # The following four classes are used to add a member .attributes to integers, # strings, lists, and dictionaries, respectively. class IntegerElement(int): def __repr__(self): text = int.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "IntegerElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class StringElement(str): def __repr__(self): text = str.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "StringElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class UnicodeElement(unicode): def __repr__(self): text = unicode.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "UnicodeElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class ListElement(list): def __repr__(self): text = list.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "ListElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class DictionaryElement(dict): def __repr__(self): text = dict.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "DictElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) # A StructureElement is like a dictionary, but some of its keys can have # multiple values associated with it. These values are stored in a list # under each key. class StructureElement(dict): def __init__(self, keys): dict.__init__(self) for key in keys: dict.__setitem__(self, key, []) self.listkeys = keys def __setitem__(self, key, value): if key in self.listkeys: self[key].append(value) else: dict.__setitem__(self, key, value) def __repr__(self): text = dict.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "DictElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class NotXMLError(ValueError): def __init__(self, message): self.msg = message def __str__(self): return "Failed to parse the XML data (%s). Please make sure that the input data are in XML format." % self.msg class CorruptedXMLError(ValueError): def __init__(self, message): self.msg = message def __str__(self): return "Failed to parse the XML data (%s). Please make sure that the input data are not corrupted." % self.msg class ValidationError(ValueError): """Validating parsers raise this error if the parser finds a tag in the XML that is not defined in the DTD. Non-validating parsers do not raise this error. The Bio.Entrez.read and Bio.Entrez.parse functions use validating parsers by default (see those functions for more information)""" def __init__(self, name): self.name = name def __str__(self): return "Failed to find tag '%s' in the DTD. To skip all tags that are not represented in the DTD, please call Bio.Entrez.read or Bio.Entrez.parse with validate=False." % self.name class DataHandler(object): import platform if platform.system()=='Windows': directory = os.path.join(os.getenv("APPDATA"), "biopython") else: # Unix/Linux/Mac home = os.path.expanduser('~') directory = os.path.join(home, '.config', 'biopython') del home local_dtd_dir = os.path.join(directory, 'Bio', 'Entrez', 'DTDs') del directory del platform try: os.makedirs(local_dtd_dir) # use exist_ok=True on Python >= 3.2 except OSError as exception: # Check if local_dtd_dir already exists, and that it is a directory. # Trying os.makedirs first and then checking for os.path.isdir avoids # a race condition. if not os.path.isdir(local_dtd_dir): raise exception from Bio import Entrez global_dtd_dir = os.path.join(str(Entrez.__path__[0]), "DTDs") del Entrez def __init__(self, validate): self.stack = [] self.errors = [] self.integers = [] self.strings = [] self.lists = [] self.dictionaries = [] self.structures = {} self.items = [] self.dtd_urls = [] self.validating = validate self.parser = expat.ParserCreate(namespace_separator=" ") self.parser.SetParamEntityParsing(expat.XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_ALWAYS) self.parser.XmlDeclHandler = self.xmlDeclHandler def read(self, handle): """Set up the parser and let it parse the XML results""" # HACK: remove Bio._py3k handle conversion, since the Entrez XML parser # expects binary data if handle.__class__.__name__ == 'EvilHandleHack': handle = handle._handle if hasattr(handle, "closed") and handle.closed: #Should avoid a possible Segmentation Fault, see: #http://bugs.python.org/issue4877 raise IOError("Can't parse a closed handle") try: self.parser.ParseFile(handle) except expat.ExpatError as e: if self.parser.StartElementHandler: # We saw the initial 1: # Then the top record is finished record = records.pop(0) yield record def xmlDeclHandler(self, version, encoding, standalone): # XML declaration found; set the handlers self.parser.StartElementHandler = self.startElementHandler self.parser.EndElementHandler = self.endElementHandler self.parser.CharacterDataHandler = self.characterDataHandler self.parser.ExternalEntityRefHandler = self.externalEntityRefHandler self.parser.StartNamespaceDeclHandler = self.startNamespaceDeclHandler def startNamespaceDeclHandler(self, prefix, un): raise NotImplementedError("The Bio.Entrez parser cannot handle XML data that make use of XML namespaces") def startElementHandler(self, name, attrs): self.content = "" if name in self.lists: object = ListElement() elif name in self.dictionaries: object = DictionaryElement() elif name in self.structures: object = StructureElement(self.structures[name]) elif name in self.items: # Only appears in ESummary name = str(attrs["Name"]) # convert from Unicode del attrs["Name"] itemtype = str(attrs["Type"]) # convert from Unicode del attrs["Type"] if itemtype=="Structure": object = DictionaryElement() elif name in ("ArticleIds", "History"): object = StructureElement(["pubmed", "medline"]) elif itemtype=="List": object = ListElement() else: object = StringElement() object.itemname = name object.itemtype = itemtype elif name in self.strings + self.errors + self.integers: self.attributes = attrs return else: # Element not found in DTD if self.validating: raise ValidationError(name) else: # this will not be stored in the record object = "" if object!="": object.tag = name if attrs: object.attributes = dict(attrs) if len(self.stack)!=0: current = self.stack[-1] try: current.append(object) except AttributeError: current[name] = object self.stack.append(object) def endElementHandler(self, name): value = self.content if name in self.errors: if value=="": return else: raise RuntimeError(value) elif name in self.integers: value = IntegerElement(value) elif name in self.strings: # Convert Unicode strings to plain strings if possible try: value = StringElement(value) except UnicodeEncodeError: value = UnicodeElement(value) elif name in self.items: self.object = self.stack.pop() if self.object.itemtype in ("List", "Structure"): return elif self.object.itemtype=="Integer" and value: value = IntegerElement(value) else: # Convert Unicode strings to plain strings if possible try: value = StringElement(value) except UnicodeEncodeError: value = UnicodeElement(value) name = self.object.itemname else: self.object = self.stack.pop() return value.tag = name if self.attributes: value.attributes = dict(self.attributes) del self.attributes current = self.stack[-1] if current!="": try: current.append(value) except AttributeError: current[name] = value def characterDataHandler(self, content): self.content += content def elementDecl(self, name, model): """This callback function is called for each element declaration: encountered in a DTD. The purpose of this function is to determine whether this element should be regarded as a string, integer, list dictionary, structure, or error.""" if name.upper()=="ERROR": self.errors.append(name) return if name=='Item' and model==(expat.model.XML_CTYPE_MIXED, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_REP, None, ((expat.model.XML_CTYPE_NAME, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_NONE, 'Item', () ), ) ): # Special case. As far as I can tell, this only occurs in the # eSummary DTD. self.items.append(name) return # First, remove ignorable parentheses around declarations while (model[0] in (expat.model.XML_CTYPE_SEQ, expat.model.XML_CTYPE_CHOICE) and model[1] in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_NONE, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_OPT) and len(model[3])==1): model = model[3][0] # PCDATA declarations correspond to strings if model[0] in (expat.model.XML_CTYPE_MIXED, expat.model.XML_CTYPE_EMPTY): self.strings.append(name) return # List-type elements if (model[0] in (expat.model.XML_CTYPE_CHOICE, expat.model.XML_CTYPE_SEQ) and model[1] in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_PLUS, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_REP)): self.lists.append(name) return # This is the tricky case. Check which keys can occur multiple # times. If only one key is possible, and it can occur multiple # times, then this is a list. If more than one key is possible, # but none of them can occur multiple times, then this is a # dictionary. Otherwise, this is a structure. # In 'single' and 'multiple', we keep track which keys can occur # only once, and which can occur multiple times. single = [] multiple = [] # The 'count' function is called recursively to make sure all the # children in this model are counted. Error keys are ignored; # they raise an exception in Python. def count(model): quantifier, name, children = model[1:] if name is None: if quantifier in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_PLUS, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_REP): for child in children: multiple.append(child[2]) else: for child in children: count(child) elif name.upper()!="ERROR": if quantifier in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_NONE, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_OPT): single.append(name) elif quantifier in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_PLUS, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_REP): multiple.append(name) count(model) if len(single)==0 and len(multiple)==1: self.lists.append(name) elif len(multiple)==0: self.dictionaries.append(name) else: self.structures.update({name: multiple}) def open_dtd_file(self, filename): path = os.path.join(DataHandler.local_dtd_dir, filename) try: handle = open(path, "rb") except IOError: pass else: return handle path = os.path.join(DataHandler.global_dtd_dir, filename) try: handle = open(path, "rb") except IOError: pass else: return handle return None def save_dtd_file(self, filename, text): path = os.path.join(DataHandler.local_dtd_dir, filename) try: handle = open(path, "wb") except IOError: warnings.warn("Failed to save %s at %s" % (filename, path)) else: handle.write(text) handle.close() def externalEntityRefHandler(self, context, base, systemId, publicId): """The purpose of this function is to load the DTD locally, instead of downloading it from the URL specified in the XML. Using the local DTD results in much faster parsing. If the DTD is not found locally, we try to download it. If new DTDs become available from NCBI, putting them in Bio/Entrez/DTDs will allow the parser to see them.""" urlinfo = _urlparse(systemId) #Following attribute requires Python 2.5+ #if urlinfo.scheme=='http': if urlinfo[0]=='http': # Then this is an absolute path to the DTD. url = systemId elif urlinfo[0]=='': # Then this is a relative path to the DTD. # Look at the parent URL to find the full path. try: url = self.dtd_urls[-1] except IndexError: # Assume the default URL for DTDs if the top parent # does not contain an absolute path source = "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dtd/" else: source = os.path.dirname(url) # urls always have a forward slash, don't use os.path.join url = source.rstrip("/") + "/" + systemId self.dtd_urls.append(url) # First, try to load the local version of the DTD file location, filename = os.path.split(systemId) handle = self.open_dtd_file(filename) if not handle: # DTD is not available as a local file. Try accessing it through # the internet instead. try: handle = _urlopen(url) except IOError: raise RuntimeError("Failed to access %s at %s" % (filename, url)) text = handle.read() handle.close() self.save_dtd_file(filename, text) handle = BytesIO(text) parser = self.parser.ExternalEntityParserCreate(context) parser.ElementDeclHandler = self.elementDecl parser.ParseFile(handle) handle.close() self.dtd_urls.pop() return 1