trimmed useless imports, unstarred all imports

[sfa.git] / sfa / util / xml.py

diff --git a/sfa/util/xml.py b/sfa/util/xml.py
index 5a2656c..a1a6fa3 100755 (executable)
--- a/sfa/util/xml.py
+++ b/sfa/util/xml.py
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python 
 from lxml import etree
 from StringIO import StringIO
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta
-from sfa.util.xrn import *
-from sfa.util.plxrn import hostname_to_urn
-from sfa.util.faults import SfaNotImplemented, InvalidXML
+
+from sfa.util.faults import InvalidXML
 
 class XpathFilter:
     @staticmethod
@@ -56,6 +54,8 @@ class XML:
         self.root = tree.getroot()
         # set namespaces map
         self.namespaces = dict(self.root.nsmap)
+        if 'default' not in self.namespaces and None in self.namespaces: 
+            self.namespaces['default'] = self.namespaces[None]
         # If the 'None' exist, then it's pointing to the default namespace. This makes 
         # it hard for us to write xpath queries for the default naemspace because lxml 
         # wont understand a None prefix. We will just associate the default namespeace 
@@ -73,6 +73,26 @@ class XML:
                 namespace, schema  = schema_parts[0], schema_parts[1]
                 break
 
+    def parse_dict(self, d, root_tag_name='xml', element = None):
+        if element is None: 
+            self.parse_xml('<%s/>' % root_tag_name)
+            element = self.root
+
+        if 'text' in d:
+            text = d.pop('text')
+            element.text = text
+
+        # handle repeating fields
+        for (key, value) in d.items():
+            if isinstance(value, list):
+                value = d.pop(key)
+                for val in value:
+                    if isinstance(val, dict):
+                        child_element = etree.SubElement(element, key)
+                        self.parse_dict(val, key, child_element) 
+        
+        element.attrib.update(d)
+
     def validate(self, schema):
         """
         Validate against rng schema
@@ -180,14 +200,27 @@ class XML:
         return self.toxml()
 
     def toxml(self):
-        return etree.tostring(self.root, pretty_print=True)  
+        return etree.tostring(self.root, encoding='UTF-8', pretty_print=True)  
+    
+    def todict(self, elem=None):
+        if elem is None:
+            elem = self.root
+        d = {}
+        d.update(elem.attrib)
+        d['text'] = elem.text
+        for child in elem.iterchildren():
+            if child.tag not in d:
+                d[child.tag] = []
+            d[child.tag].append(self.todict(child))
+        return d            
         
     def save(self, filename):
         f = open(filename, 'w')
         f.write(self.toxml())
         f.close()
- 
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    rspec = RSpec('/tmp/resources.rspec')
-    print rspec
+
+# no RSpec in scope 
+#if __name__ == '__main__':
+#    rspec = RSpec('/tmp/resources.rspec')
+#    print rspec