Node¶

Node: filesystem structure

Each file/folder is represented by exactly one node.
Some potential class properties are stored on waflib.Build.BuildContext : nodes to depend on, etc. Unused class members can increase the .wafpickle file size sensibly.
Node objects should never be created directly, use the methods Node.make_node() or Node.find_node() for the low-level operations
The methods Node.find_resource(), Node.find_dir() Node.find_or_declare() must be used when a build context is present
Each instance of waflib.Context.Context has a unique Node subclass required for serialization. (waflib.Node.Nod3, see the waflib.Context.Context initializer). A reference to the context owning a node is held as self.ctx

waflib.Node.exclude_regs = '\n**/*~\n**/#*#\n**/.#*\n**/%*%\n**/._*\n**/*.swp\n**/CVS\n**/CVS/**\n**/.cvsignore\n**/SCCS\n**/SCCS/**\n**/vssver.scc\n**/.svn\n**/.svn/**\n**/BitKeeper\n**/.git\n**/.git/**\n**/.gitignore\n**/.bzr\n**/.bzrignore\n**/.bzr/**\n**/.hg\n**/.hg/**\n**/_MTN\n**/_MTN/**\n**/.arch-ids\n**/{arch}\n**/_darcs\n**/_darcs/**\n**/.intlcache\n**/.DS_Store'¶: Ant patterns for files and folders to exclude while doing the recursive traversal in waflib.Node.Node.ant_glob()

class waflib.Node.Node(name, parent)[source]¶

This class is organized in two parts:

The basic methods meant for filesystem access (compute paths, create folders, etc)
The methods bound to a waflib.Build.BuildContext (require bld.srcnode and bld.bldnode)

dict_class¶: alias of dict

__slots__ = ('name', 'parent', 'children', 'cache_abspath', 'cache_isdir')¶

__init__(name, parent)[source]¶: Note

Use Node.make_node() or Node.find_node() instead of calling this constructor

name¶

parent¶

__setstate__(data)[source]¶: Deserializes node information, used for persistence

__getstate__()[source]¶: Serializes node information, used for persistence

__str__()[source]¶

String representation (abspath), for debugging purposes

Return type: string

__repr__()[source]¶

String representation (abspath), for debugging purposes

Return type: string

__copy__()[source]¶

Provided to prevent nodes from being copied

Raises: waflib.Errors.WafError

read(flags='r', encoding='latin-1')[source]¶

Reads and returns the contents of the file represented by this node, see waflib.Utils.readf():

def build(bld):
        bld.path.find_node('wscript').read()

Parameters

flags (string) – Open mode
encoding (string) – encoding value for Python3

Return type

string or bytes

Returns

File contents

write(data, flags='w', encoding='latin-1')[source]¶

Writes data to the file represented by this node, see waflib.Utils.writef():

def build(bld):
        bld.path.make_node('foo.txt').write('Hello, world!')

Parameters

data (string) – data to write
flags (string) – Write mode
encoding (string) – encoding value for Python3

read_json(convert=True, encoding='utf-8')[source]¶

Reads and parses the contents of this node as JSON (Python ≥ 2.6):

def build(bld):
        bld.path.find_node('abc.json').read_json()

Note that this by default automatically decodes unicode strings on Python2, unlike what the Python JSON module does.

Parameters

convert (boolean) – Prevents decoding of unicode strings on Python2
encoding (string) – The encoding of the file to read. This default to UTF8 as per the JSON standard

Return type

object

Returns

Parsed file contents

write_json(data, pretty=True)[source]¶

Writes a python object as JSON to disk (Python ≥ 2.6) as UTF-8 data (JSON standard):

def build(bld):
        bld.path.find_node('xyz.json').write_json(199)

Parameters

data (object) – The data to write to disk
pretty (boolean) – Determines if the JSON will be nicely space separated

exists()[source]¶

Returns whether the Node is present on the filesystem

Return type: bool

isdir()[source]¶

Returns whether the Node represents a folder

Return type: bool

chmod(val)[source]¶

Changes the file/dir permissions:

def build(bld):
        bld.path.chmod(493) # 0755

delete(evict=True)[source]¶: Removes the file/folder from the filesystem (equivalent to rm -rf), and remove this object from the Node tree. Do not use this object after calling this method.

evict()[source]¶: Removes this node from the Node tree

suffix()[source]¶

Returns the file rightmost extension, for example a.b.c.d → .d

Return type: string

height()[source]¶

Returns the depth in the folder hierarchy from the filesystem root or from all the file drives

Returns: filesystem depth
Return type: integer

listdir()[source]¶

Lists the folder contents

Returns: list of file/folder names ordered alphabetically
Return type: list of string

mkdir()[source]¶

Creates a folder represented by this node. Intermediate folders are created as needed.

Raises: waflib.Errors.WafError when the folder is missing

find_node(lst)[source]¶

Finds a node on the file system (files or folders), and creates the corresponding Node objects if it exists

Parameters: lst (string or list of string) – relative path
Returns: The corresponding Node object or None if no entry was found on the filesystem
Return type: :py:class:´waflib.Node.Node´

make_node(lst)[source]¶

Returns or creates a Node object corresponding to the input path without considering the filesystem.

Parameters: lst (string or list of string) – relative path
Return type: :py:class:´waflib.Node.Node´

search_node(lst)[source]¶

Returns a Node previously defined in the data structure. The filesystem is not considered.

Parameters: lst (string or list of string) – relative path
Return type: :py:class:´waflib.Node.Node´ or None if there is no entry in the Node datastructure

path_from(node)[source]¶

Path of this node seen from the other:

def build(bld):
        n1 = bld.path.find_node('foo/bar/xyz.txt')
        n2 = bld.path.find_node('foo/stuff/')
        n1.path_from(n2) # '../bar/xyz.txt'

Parameters: node (waflib.Node.Node) – path to use as a reference
Returns: a relative path or an absolute one if that is better
Return type: string

abspath()[source]¶

Returns the absolute path. A cache is kept in the context as cache_node_abspath

Return type: string

is_child_of(node)[source]¶

Returns whether the object belongs to a subtree of the input node:

def build(bld):
        node = bld.path.find_node('wscript')
        node.is_child_of(bld.path) # True

Parameters: node (waflib.Node.Node) – path to use as a reference
Return type: bool

ant_iter(accept=None, maxdepth=25, pats=[], dir=False, src=True, remove=True, quiet=False)[source]¶

Recursive method used by waflib.Node.ant_glob().

Parameters

accept (function) – function used for accepting/rejecting a node, returns the patterns that can be still accepted in recursion
maxdepth (int) – maximum depth in the filesystem (25)
pats (tuple) – list of patterns to accept and list of patterns to exclude
dir (bool) – return folders too (False by default)
src (bool) – return files (True by default)
remove (bool) – remove files/folders that do not exist (True by default)
quiet (bool) – disable build directory traversal warnings (verbose mode)

Returns

A generator object to iterate from

Return type

iterator

ant_glob(*k, **kw)[source]¶

Finds files across folders and returns Node objects:

**/* find all files recursively
**/*.class find all files ending by .class
.. find files having two dot characters

For example:

def configure(cfg):
        # find all .cpp files
        cfg.path.ant_glob('**/*.cpp')
        # find particular files from the root filesystem (can be slow)
        cfg.root.ant_glob('etc/*.txt')
        # simple exclusion rule example
        cfg.path.ant_glob('*.c*', excl=['*.c'], src=True, dir=False)

For more information about the patterns, consult http://ant.apache.org/manual/dirtasks.html Please remember that the ‘..’ sequence does not represent the parent directory:

def configure(cfg):
        cfg.path.ant_glob('../*.h') # incorrect
        cfg.path.parent.ant_glob('*.h') # correct

The Node structure is itself a filesystem cache, so certain precautions must be taken while matching files in the build or installation phases. Nodes objects that do have a corresponding file or folder are garbage-collected by default. This garbage collection is usually required to prevent returning files that do not exist anymore. Yet, this may also remove Node objects of files that are yet-to-be built.

This typically happens when trying to match files in the build directory, but there are also cases when files are created in the source directory. Run waf -v to display any warnings, and try consider passing remove=False when matching files in the build directory.

Since ant_glob can traverse both source and build folders, it is a best practice to call this method only from the most specific build node:

def build(bld):
        # traverses the build directory, may need ``remove=False``:
        bld.path.ant_glob('project/dir/**/*.h')
        # better, no accidental build directory traversal:
        bld.path.find_node('project/dir').ant_glob('**/*.h') # best

In addition, files and folders are listed immediately. When matching files in the build folders, consider passing generator=True so that the generator object returned can defer computation to a later stage. For example:

def build(bld):
        bld(rule='tar xvf ${SRC}', source='arch.tar')
        bld.add_group()
        gen = bld.bldnode.ant_glob("*.h", generator=True, remove=True)
        # files will be listed only after the arch.tar is unpacked
        bld(rule='ls ${SRC}', source=gen, name='XYZ')

Parameters

incl (string or list of strings) – ant patterns or list of patterns to include
excl (string or list of strings) – ant patterns or list of patterns to exclude
dir (bool) – return folders too (False by default)
src (bool) – return files (True by default)
maxdepth (int) – maximum depth of recursion
ignorecase (bool) – ignore case while matching (False by default)
generator (bool) – Whether to evaluate the Nodes lazily
remove (bool) – remove files/folders that do not exist (True by default)
quiet (bool) – disable build directory traversal warnings (verbose mode)

Returns

The corresponding Node objects as a list or as a generator object (generator=True)

Return type

by default, list of waflib.Node.Node instances

is_src()[source]¶

Returns True if the node is below the source directory. Note that !is_src() ≠ is_bld()

Return type: bool

is_bld()[source]¶

Returns True if the node is below the build directory. Note that !is_bld() ≠ is_src()

Return type: bool

get_src()[source]¶

Returns the corresponding Node object in the source directory (or self if already under the source directory). Use this method only if the purpose is to create a Node object (this is common with folders but not with files, see ticket 1937)

Return type: waflib.Node.Node

get_bld()[source]¶

Return the corresponding Node object in the build directory (or self if already under the build directory). Use this method only if the purpose is to create a Node object (this is common with folders but not with files, see ticket 1937)

Return type: waflib.Node.Node

find_resource(lst)[source]¶

Use this method in the build phase to find source files corresponding to the relative path given.

First it looks up the Node data structure to find any declared Node object in the build directory. If None is found, it then considers the filesystem in the source directory.

Parameters: lst (string or list of string) – relative path
Returns: the corresponding Node object or None
Return type: waflib.Node.Node

find_or_declare(lst)[source]¶

Use this method in the build phase to declare output files which are meant to be written in the build directory.

This method creates the Node object and its parent folder as needed.

Parameters: lst (string or list of string) – relative path

find_dir(lst)[source]¶

Searches for a folder on the filesystem (see waflib.Node.Node.find_node())

Parameters: lst (string or list of string) – relative path
Returns: The corresponding Node object or None if there is no such folder
Return type: waflib.Node.Node

change_ext(ext, ext_in=None)[source]¶

Declares a build node with a distinct extension; this is uses waflib.Node.Node.find_or_declare()

Returns: A build node of the same path, but with a different extension
Return type: waflib.Node.Node

bldpath()[source]¶

Returns the relative path seen from the build directory src/foo.cpp

Return type: string

srcpath()[source]¶

Returns the relative path seen from the source directory ../src/foo.cpp

Return type: string

relpath()[source]¶

If a file in the build directory, returns waflib.Node.Node.bldpath(), else returns waflib.Node.Node.srcpath()

Return type: string

bld_dir()[source]¶

Equivalent to self.parent.bldpath()

Return type: string

h_file()¶

See waflib.Utils.h_file()

Returns: a hash representing the file contents
Return type: string or bytes

children¶

cache_abspath¶

cache_isdir¶

get_bld_sig()[source]¶

Returns a signature (see waflib.Node.Node.h_file()) for the purpose of build dependency calculation. This method uses a per-context cache.

Returns: a hash representing the object contents
Return type: string or bytes

waflib.Node.pickle_lock = <unlocked _thread.lock object>¶: Lock mandatory for thread-safe node serialization

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