# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
"""Metadata merging."""
import warnings
from contextlib import contextmanager
from copy import deepcopy
from functools import wraps
import numpy as np
from .exceptions import MergeConflictError, MergeConflictWarning
from .utils import common_dtype
__all__ = [
"MERGE_STRATEGIES",
"MergeStrategy",
"MergePlus",
"MergeNpConcatenate",
"enable_merge_strategies",
"merge",
]
MERGE_STRATEGIES = []
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class MergeStrategy:
"""
Base class for defining a strategy for merging metadata from two
sources, left and right, into a single output.
The primary functionality for the class is the ``merge(cls, left, right)``
class method. This takes ``left`` and ``right`` side arguments and
returns a single merged output.
The first class attribute is ``types``. This is defined as a list of
(left_types, right_types) tuples that indicate for which input types the
merge strategy applies. In determining whether to apply this merge
strategy to a pair of (left, right) objects, a test is done:
``isinstance(left, left_types) and isinstance(right, right_types)``. For
example::
types = [(np.ndarray, np.ndarray), # Two ndarrays
(np.ndarray, (list, tuple)), # ndarray and (list or tuple)
((list, tuple), np.ndarray)] # (list or tuple) and ndarray
As a convenience, ``types`` can be defined as a single two-tuple instead of
a list of two-tuples, e.g. ``types = (np.ndarray, np.ndarray)``.
The other class attribute is ``enabled``, which defaults to ``False`` in
the base class. By defining a subclass of ``MergeStrategy`` the new merge
strategy is automatically registered to be available for use in
merging. However, by default the new merge strategy is *not enabled*. This
prevents inadvertently changing the behavior of unrelated code that is
performing metadata merge operations.
In most cases (particularly in library code that others might use) it is
recommended to leave custom strategies disabled and use the
`~astropy.utils.metadata.enable_merge_strategies` context manager to locally
enable the desired strategies. However, if one is confident that the
new strategy will not produce unexpected behavior, then one can globally
enable it by setting the ``enabled`` class attribute to ``True``.
Examples
--------
Here we define a custom merge strategy that takes an int or float on
the left and right sides and returns a list with the two values.
>>> from astropy.utils.metadata import MergeStrategy
>>> class MergeNumbersAsList(MergeStrategy):
... types = ((int, float), (int, float)) # (left_types, right_types)
...
... @classmethod
... def merge(cls, left, right):
... return [left, right]
"""
# Set ``enabled = True`` to globally enable applying this merge strategy.
# This is not generally recommended.
enabled = False
# types = [(left_types, right_types), ...]
def __init_subclass__(cls):
members = vars(cls)
# Wrap ``merge`` classmethod to catch any exception and re-raise as
# MergeConflictError.
if isinstance((merge_ := members.get("merge")), classmethod):
orig_merge = merge_.__func__
@wraps(orig_merge)
def merge(cls, left, right):
try:
return orig_merge(cls, left, right)
except Exception as err:
raise MergeConflictError(err)
cls.merge = classmethod(merge)
# Register merging class (except for base MergeStrategy class)
if (types := members.get("types")) is not None:
if isinstance(types, tuple):
types = [types]
for left, right in reversed(types):
MERGE_STRATEGIES.insert(0, (left, right, cls))
return cls
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class MergePlus(MergeStrategy):
"""
Merge ``left`` and ``right`` objects using the plus operator. This
merge strategy is globally enabled by default.
"""
types = [(list, list), (tuple, tuple)]
enabled = True
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@classmethod
def merge(cls, left, right):
return left + right
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class MergeNpConcatenate(MergeStrategy):
"""
Merge ``left`` and ``right`` objects using np.concatenate. This
merge strategy is globally enabled by default.
This will upcast a list or tuple to np.ndarray and the output is
always ndarray.
"""
types = [
(np.ndarray, np.ndarray),
(np.ndarray, (list, tuple)),
((list, tuple), np.ndarray),
]
enabled = True
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@classmethod
def merge(cls, left, right):
left, right = np.asanyarray(left), np.asanyarray(right)
common_dtype([left, right]) # Ensure left and right have compatible dtype
return np.concatenate([left, right])
# ============================================================================
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@contextmanager
def enable_merge_strategies(*merge_strategies):
"""
Context manager to temporarily enable one or more custom metadata merge
strategies.
Examples
--------
Here we define a custom merge strategy that takes an int or float on
the left and right sides and returns a list with the two values.
>>> from astropy.utils.metadata import MergeStrategy
>>> class MergeNumbersAsList(MergeStrategy):
... types = ((int, float), # left side types
... (int, float)) # right side types
... @classmethod
... def merge(cls, left, right):
... return [left, right]
By defining this class the merge strategy is automatically registered to be
available for use in merging. However, by default new merge strategies are
*not enabled*. This prevents inadvertently changing the behavior of
unrelated code that is performing metadata merge operations.
In order to use the new merge strategy, use this context manager as in the
following example::
>>> from astropy.table import Table, vstack
>>> from astropy.utils.metadata import enable_merge_strategies
>>> t1 = Table([[1]], names=['a'])
>>> t2 = Table([[2]], names=['a'])
>>> t1.meta = {'m': 1}
>>> t2.meta = {'m': 2}
>>> with enable_merge_strategies(MergeNumbersAsList):
... t12 = vstack([t1, t2])
>>> t12.meta['m']
[1, 2]
One can supply further merge strategies as additional arguments to the
context manager.
As a convenience, the enabling operation is actually done by checking
whether the registered strategies are subclasses of the context manager
arguments. This means one can define a related set of merge strategies and
then enable them all at once by enabling the base class. As a trivial
example, *all* registered merge strategies can be enabled with::
>>> with enable_merge_strategies(MergeStrategy):
... t12 = vstack([t1, t2])
Parameters
----------
*merge_strategies : :class:`~astropy.utils.metadata.MergeStrategy` class
Merge strategies that will be enabled.
"""
orig_enabled = {}
for _, _, merge_strategy in MERGE_STRATEGIES:
if issubclass(merge_strategy, merge_strategies):
orig_enabled[merge_strategy] = merge_strategy.enabled
merge_strategy.enabled = True
yield
for merge_strategy, enabled in orig_enabled.items():
merge_strategy.enabled = enabled
# =============================================================================
def _both_isinstance(left, right, cls):
return isinstance(left, cls) and isinstance(right, cls)
def _not_equal(left, right):
try:
return bool(left != right)
except Exception:
return True
def _warn_str_func(key, left, right):
out = (
f"Cannot merge meta key {key!r} types {type(left)!r}"
f" and {type(right)!r}, choosing {key}={right!r}"
)
return out
def _error_str_func(key, left, right):
out = f"Cannot merge meta key {key!r} types {type(left)!r} and {type(right)!r}"
return out
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def merge(
left,
right,
merge_func=None,
metadata_conflicts="warn",
warn_str_func=_warn_str_func,
error_str_func=_error_str_func,
):
"""
Merge the ``left`` and ``right`` metadata objects.
This is a simplistic and limited implementation at this point.
"""
if not _both_isinstance(left, right, dict):
raise MergeConflictError("Can only merge two dict-based objects")
out = deepcopy(left)
for key, val in right.items():
# If no conflict then insert val into out dict and continue
if key not in out:
out[key] = deepcopy(val)
continue
# There is a conflict that must be resolved
if _both_isinstance(left[key], right[key], dict):
out[key] = merge(
left[key], right[key], merge_func, metadata_conflicts=metadata_conflicts
)
else:
try:
if merge_func is None:
for left_type, right_type, merge_cls in MERGE_STRATEGIES:
if not merge_cls.enabled:
continue
if isinstance(left[key], left_type) and isinstance(
right[key], right_type
):
out[key] = merge_cls.merge(left[key], right[key])
break
else:
raise MergeConflictError
else:
out[key] = merge_func(left[key], right[key])
except MergeConflictError:
# Pick the metadata item that is not None, or they are both not
# None, then if they are equal, there is no conflict, and if
# they are different, there is a conflict and we pick the one
# on the right (or raise an error).
if left[key] is None:
# This may not seem necessary since out[key] gets set to
# right[key], but not all objects support != which is
# needed for one of the if clauses.
out[key] = right[key]
elif right[key] is None:
out[key] = left[key]
elif _not_equal(left[key], right[key]):
if metadata_conflicts == "warn":
warnings.warn(
warn_str_func(key, left[key], right[key]),
MergeConflictWarning,
)
elif metadata_conflicts == "error":
raise MergeConflictError(
error_str_func(key, left[key], right[key])
)
elif metadata_conflicts != "silent":
raise ValueError(
"metadata_conflicts argument must be one "
'of "silent", "warn", or "error"'
)
out[key] = right[key]
else:
out[key] = right[key]
return out
