borg/src/borg/_item.c

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#include "Python.h"
/*
* This is not quite as dark magic as it looks. We just convert the address of (pointer to)
* a PyObject into a bytes object in _wrap_object, and convert these bytes back to the
* pointer to the original object.
*
* This mainly looks a bit confusing due to our mental special-casing of "char*" from other
* pointers.
*
* The big upside to this is that this neither does *any* serialization (beyond creating tiny
* bytes objects as "stand-ins"), nor has to copy the entire object that's passed around.
*/
static PyObject *
_object_to_optr(PyObject *obj)
{
/*
* Create a temporary reference to the object being passed around so it does not vanish.
* Note that we never decref this one in _unwrap_object, since we just transfer that reference
* there, i.e. there is an elided "Py_INCREF(x); Py_DECREF(x)".
* Since the reference is transferred, calls to _wrap_object and _unwrap_object must be symmetric.
*/
Py_INCREF(obj);
return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize((const char*) &obj, sizeof(void*));
}
static PyObject *
_optr_to_object(PyObject *bytes)
{
if(!PyBytes_Check(bytes)) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Cannot unwrap non-bytes object");
return NULL;
}
if(PyBytes_Size(bytes) != sizeof(void*)) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Invalid length of bytes object");
return NULL;
}
PyObject *object = * (PyObject **) PyBytes_AsString(bytes);
return object;
}