Pluggable On-Disk Back-end APIs

The internal REST API used between the proxy server and the account, container and object server is almost identical to public Swift REST API, but with a few internal extensions (for example, update an account with a new container).

The pluggable back-end APIs for the three REST API servers (account, container, object) abstracts the needs for servicing the various REST APIs from the details of how data is laid out and stored on-disk.

The APIs are documented in the reference implementations for all three servers. For historical reasons, the object server backend reference implementation module is named diskfile, while the account and container server backend reference implementation modules are named appropriately.

This API is still under development and not yet finalized.

Back-end API for Account Server REST APIs

Pluggable Back-end for Account Server

class swift.account.backend.AccountBroker(db_file, timeout=25, logger=None, account=None, container=None, pending_timeout=None, stale_reads_ok=False, skip_commits=False)

Encapsulates working with an account database.

create_account_stat_table(conn, put_timestamp)

Create account_stat table which is specific to the account DB. Not a part of Pluggable Back-ends, internal to the baseline code.

Parameters
  • conn – DB connection object

  • put_timestamp – put timestamp

create_container_table(conn)

Create container table which is specific to the account DB.

Parameters

conn – DB connection object

create_policy_stat_table(conn)

Create policy_stat table which is specific to the account DB. Not a part of Pluggable Back-ends, internal to the baseline code.

Parameters

conn – DB connection object

empty()

Check if the account DB is empty.

Returns

True if the database has no active containers.

get_info()

Get global data for the account.

Returns

dict with keys: account, created_at, put_timestamp, delete_timestamp, status_changed_at, container_count, object_count, bytes_used, hash, id

get_policy_stats(do_migrations=False)

Get global policy stats for the account.

Parameters

do_migrations – boolean, if True the policy stat dicts will always include the ‘container_count’ key; otherwise it may be omitted on legacy databases until they are migrated.

Returns

dict of policy stats where the key is the policy index and the value is a dictionary like {‘object_count’: M, ‘bytes_used’: N, ‘container_count’: L}

is_status_deleted()

Only returns true if the status field is set to DELETED.

list_containers_iter(limit, marker, end_marker, prefix, delimiter, reverse=False, allow_reserved=False)

Get a list of containers sorted by name starting at marker onward, up to limit entries. Entries will begin with the prefix and will not have the delimiter after the prefix.

Parameters
  • limit – maximum number of entries to get

  • marker – marker query

  • end_marker – end marker query

  • prefix – prefix query

  • delimiter – delimiter for query

  • reverse – reverse the result order.

  • allow_reserved – exclude names with reserved-byte by default

Returns

list of tuples of (name, object_count, bytes_used, put_timestamp, 0)

make_tuple_for_pickle(record)

Turn this db record dict into the format this service uses for pending pickles.

merge_items(item_list, source=None)

Merge items into the container table.

Parameters
  • item_list – list of dictionaries of {‘name’, ‘put_timestamp’, ‘delete_timestamp’, ‘object_count’, ‘bytes_used’, ‘deleted’, ‘storage_policy_index’}

  • source – if defined, update incoming_sync with the source

put_container(name, put_timestamp, delete_timestamp, object_count, bytes_used, storage_policy_index)

Create a container with the given attributes.

Parameters
  • name – name of the container to create (a native string)

  • put_timestamp – put_timestamp of the container to create

  • delete_timestamp – delete_timestamp of the container to create

  • object_count – number of objects in the container

  • bytes_used – number of bytes used by the container

  • storage_policy_index – the storage policy for this container

Back-end API for Container Server REST APIs

Pluggable Back-ends for Container Server

class swift.container.backend.ContainerBroker(db_file, timeout=25, logger=None, account=None, container=None, pending_timeout=None, stale_reads_ok=False, skip_commits=False, force_db_file=False)

Encapsulates working with a container database.

Note that this may involve multiple on-disk DB files if the container becomes sharded:

  • _db_file is the path to the legacy container DB name, i.e. <hash>.db. This file should exist for an initialised broker that has never been sharded, but will not exist once a container has been sharded.

  • db_files is a list of existing db files for the broker. This list should have at least one entry for an initialised broker, and should have two entries while a broker is in SHARDING state.

  • db_file is the path to whichever db is currently authoritative for the container. Depending on the container’s state, this may not be the same as the db_file argument given to __init__(), unless force_db_file is True in which case db_file is always equal to the db_file argument given to __init__().

  • pending_file is always equal to _db_file extended with .pending, i.e. <hash>.db.pending.

classmethod create_broker(device_path, part, account, container, logger=None, epoch=None, put_timestamp=None, storage_policy_index=None)

Create a ContainerBroker instance. If the db doesn’t exist, initialize the db file.

Parameters
  • device_path – device path

  • part – partition number

  • account – account name string

  • container – container name string

  • logger – a logger instance

  • epoch – a timestamp to include in the db filename

  • put_timestamp – initial timestamp if broker needs to be initialized

  • storage_policy_index – the storage policy index

Returns

a tuple of (broker, initialized) where broker is an instance of swift.container.backend.ContainerBroker and initialized is True if the db file was initialized, False otherwise.

create_container_info_table(conn, put_timestamp, storage_policy_index)

Create the container_info table which is specific to the container DB. Not a part of Pluggable Back-ends, internal to the baseline code. Also creates the container_stat view.

Parameters
  • conn – DB connection object

  • put_timestamp – put timestamp

  • storage_policy_index – storage policy index

create_object_table(conn)

Create the object table which is specific to the container DB. Not a part of Pluggable Back-ends, internal to the baseline code.

Parameters

conn – DB connection object

create_policy_stat_table(conn, storage_policy_index=0)

Create policy_stat table.

Parameters
  • conn – DB connection object

  • storage_policy_index – the policy_index the container is being created with

create_shard_range_table(conn)

Create the shard_range table which is specific to the container DB.

Parameters

conn – DB connection object

property db_file

Get the path to the primary db file for this broker. This is typically the db file for the most recent sharding epoch. However, if no db files exist on disk, or if force_db_file was True when the broker was constructed, then the primary db file is the file passed to the broker constructor.

Returns

A path to a db file; the file does not necessarily exist.

property db_files

Gets the cached list of valid db files that exist on disk for this broker.

The cached list may be refreshed by calling

reload_db_files().

Returns

A list of paths to db files ordered by ascending epoch; the list may be empty.

delete_object(name, timestamp, storage_policy_index=0)

Mark an object deleted.

Parameters
  • name – object name to be deleted

  • timestamp – timestamp when the object was marked as deleted

  • storage_policy_index – the storage policy index for the object

empty()

Check if container DB is empty.

This method uses more stringent checks on object count than is_deleted(): this method checks that there are no objects in any policy; if the container is in the process of sharding then both fresh and retiring databases are checked to be empty; if a root container has shard ranges then they are checked to be empty.

Returns

True if the database has no active objects, False otherwise

enable_sharding(epoch)

Updates this broker’s own shard range with the given epoch, sets its state to SHARDING and persists it in the DB.

Parameters

epoch – a Timestamp

Returns

the broker’s updated own shard range.

find_shard_ranges(shard_size, limit=- 1, existing_ranges=None, minimum_shard_size=1)

Scans the container db for shard ranges. Scanning will start at the upper bound of the any existing_ranges that are given, otherwise at ShardRange.MIN. Scanning will stop when limit shard ranges have been found or when no more shard ranges can be found. In the latter case, the upper bound of the final shard range will be equal to the upper bound of the container namespace.

This method does not modify the state of the db; callers are responsible for persisting any shard range data in the db.

Parameters
  • shard_size – the size of each shard range

  • limit – the maximum number of shard points to be found; a negative value (default) implies no limit.

  • existing_ranges – an optional list of existing ShardRanges; if given, this list should be sorted in order of upper bounds; the scan for new shard ranges will start at the upper bound of the last existing ShardRange.

  • minimum_shard_size – Minimum size of the final shard range. If this is greater than one then the final shard range may be extended to more than shard_size in order to avoid a further shard range with less minimum_shard_size rows.

Returns

a tuple; the first value in the tuple is a list of dicts each having keys {‘index’, ‘lower’, ‘upper’, ‘object_count’} in order of ascending ‘upper’; the second value in the tuple is a boolean which is True if the last shard range has been found, False otherwise.

get_all_shard_range_data()

Returns a list of all shard range data, including own shard range and deleted shard ranges.

Returns

A list of dict representations of a ShardRange.

get_brokers()

Return a list of brokers for component dbs. The list has two entries while the db state is sharding: the first entry is a broker for the retiring db with skip_commits set to True; the second entry is a broker for the fresh db with skip_commits set to False. For any other db state the list has one entry.

Returns

a list of ContainerBroker

get_db_state()

Returns the current state of on disk db files.

get_info()

Get global data for the container.

Returns

dict with keys: account, container, created_at, put_timestamp, delete_timestamp, status, status_changed_at, object_count, bytes_used, reported_put_timestamp, reported_delete_timestamp, reported_object_count, reported_bytes_used, hash, id, x_container_sync_point1, x_container_sync_point2, and storage_policy_index, db_state.

get_info_is_deleted()

Get the is_deleted status and info for the container.

Returns

a tuple, in the form (info, is_deleted) info is a dict as returned by get_info and is_deleted is a boolean.

get_misplaced_since(start, count)

Get a list of objects which are in a storage policy different from the container’s storage policy.

Parameters
  • start – last reconciler sync point

  • count – maximum number of entries to get

Returns

list of dicts with keys: name, created_at, size, content_type, etag, storage_policy_index

get_objects(limit=None, marker='', end_marker='', include_deleted=None, since_row=None)

Returns a list of objects, including deleted objects, in all policies. Each object in the list is described by a dict with keys {‘name’, ‘created_at’, ‘size’, ‘content_type’, ‘etag’, ‘deleted’, ‘storage_policy_index’}.

Parameters
  • limit – maximum number of entries to get

  • marker – if set, objects with names less than or equal to this value will not be included in the list.

  • end_marker – if set, objects with names greater than or equal to this value will not be included in the list.

  • include_deleted – if True, include only deleted objects; if False, include only undeleted objects; otherwise (default), include both deleted and undeleted objects.

  • since_row – include only items whose ROWID is greater than the given row id; by default all rows are included.

Returns

a list of dicts, each describing an object.

get_own_shard_range(no_default=False)

Returns a shard range representing this broker’s own shard range. If no such range has been persisted in the broker’s shard ranges table then a default shard range representing the entire namespace will be returned.

The object_count and bytes_used of the returned shard range are not guaranteed to be up-to-date with the current object stats for this broker. Callers that require up-to-date stats should use the get_info method.

Parameters

no_default – if True and the broker’s own shard range is not found in the shard ranges table then None is returned, otherwise a default shard range is returned.

Returns

an instance of ShardRange

get_replication_info()

Get information about the DB required for replication.

Returns

dict containing keys from get_info plus max_row and metadata

Note:: get_info’s <db_contains_type>_count is translated to just

“count” and metadata is the raw string.

get_shard_ranges(marker=None, end_marker=None, includes=None, reverse=False, include_deleted=False, states=None, include_own=False, exclude_others=False, fill_gaps=False)

Returns a list of persisted shard ranges.

Parameters
  • marker – restricts the returned list to shard ranges whose namespace includes or is greater than the marker value.

  • end_marker – restricts the returned list to shard ranges whose namespace includes or is less than the end_marker value.

  • includes – restricts the returned list to the shard range that includes the given value; if includes is specified then marker and end_marker are ignored.

  • reverse – reverse the result order.

  • include_deleted – include items that have the delete marker set

  • states – if specified, restricts the returned list to shard ranges that have the given state(s); can be a list of ints or a single int.

  • include_own – boolean that governs whether the row whose name matches the broker’s path is included in the returned list. If True, that row is included, otherwise it is not included. Default is False.

  • exclude_others – boolean that governs whether the rows whose names do not match the broker’s path are included in the returned list. If True, those rows are not included, otherwise they are included. Default is False.

  • fill_gaps – if True, insert a modified copy of own shard range to fill any gap between the end of any found shard ranges and the upper bound of own shard range. Gaps enclosed within the found shard ranges are not filled.

Returns

a list of instances of swift.common.utils.ShardRange

get_shard_usage()

Get the aggregate object stats for all shard ranges in states ACTIVE, SHARDING or SHRINKING.

Returns

a dict with keys {bytes_used, object_count}

get_sharding_sysmeta(key=None)

Returns sharding specific info from the broker’s metadata.

Parameters

key – if given the value stored under key in the sharding info will be returned.

Returns

either a dict of sharding info or the value stored under key in that dict.

get_sharding_sysmeta_with_timestamps()

Returns sharding specific info from the broker’s metadata with timestamps.

Parameters

key – if given the value stored under key in the sharding info will be returned.

Returns

a dict of sharding info with their timestamps.

is_reclaimable(now, reclaim_age)

Check if the broker abstraction is empty, and has been marked deleted for at least a reclaim age.

is_root_container()

Returns True if this container is a root container, False otherwise.

A root container is a container that is not a shard of another container.

list_objects_iter(limit, marker, end_marker, prefix, delimiter, path=None, storage_policy_index=0, reverse=False, include_deleted=False, since_row=None, transform_func=None, all_policies=False, allow_reserved=False)

Get a list of objects sorted by name starting at marker onward, up to limit entries. Entries will begin with the prefix and will not have the delimiter after the prefix.

Parameters
  • limit – maximum number of entries to get

  • marker – marker query

  • end_marker – end marker query

  • prefix – prefix query

  • delimiter – delimiter for query

  • path – if defined, will set the prefix and delimiter based on the path

  • storage_policy_index – storage policy index for query

  • reverse – reverse the result order.

  • include_deleted – if True, include only deleted objects; if False (default), include only undeleted objects; otherwise, include both deleted and undeleted objects.

  • since_row – include only items whose ROWID is greater than the given row id; by default all rows are included.

  • transform_func – an optional function that if given will be called for each object to get a transformed version of the object to include in the listing; should have same signature as _transform_record(); defaults to _transform_record().

  • all_policies – if True, include objects for all storage policies ignoring any value given for storage_policy_index

  • allow_reserved – exclude names with reserved-byte by default

Returns

list of tuples of (name, created_at, size, content_type, etag, deleted)

make_tuple_for_pickle(record)

Turn this db record dict into the format this service uses for pending pickles.

merge_items(item_list, source=None)

Merge items into the object table.

Parameters
  • item_list – list of dictionaries of {‘name’, ‘created_at’, ‘size’, ‘content_type’, ‘etag’, ‘deleted’, ‘storage_policy_index’, ‘ctype_timestamp’, ‘meta_timestamp’}

  • source – if defined, update incoming_sync with the source

merge_shard_ranges(shard_ranges)

Merge shard ranges into the shard range table.

Parameters

shard_ranges – a shard range or a list of shard ranges; each shard range should be an instance of ShardRange or a dict representation of a shard range having SHARD_RANGE_KEYS.

put_object(name, timestamp, size, content_type, etag, deleted=0, storage_policy_index=0, ctype_timestamp=None, meta_timestamp=None)

Creates an object in the DB with its metadata.

Parameters
  • name – object name to be created

  • timestamp – timestamp of when the object was created

  • size – object size

  • content_type – object content-type

  • etag – object etag

  • deleted – if True, marks the object as deleted and sets the deleted_at timestamp to timestamp

  • storage_policy_index – the storage policy index for the object

  • ctype_timestamp – timestamp of when content_type was last updated

  • meta_timestamp – timestamp of when metadata was last updated

reload_db_files()

Reloads the cached list of valid on disk db files for this broker.

remove_objects(lower, upper, max_row=None)

Removes object records in the given namespace range from the object table.

Note that objects are removed regardless of their storage_policy_index.

Parameters
  • lower – defines the lower bound of object names that will be removed; names greater than this value will be removed; names less than or equal to this value will not be removed.

  • upper – defines the upper bound of object names that will be removed; names less than or equal to this value will be removed; names greater than this value will not be removed. The empty string is interpreted as there being no upper bound.

  • max_row – if specified only rows less than or equal to max_row will be removed

reported(put_timestamp, delete_timestamp, object_count, bytes_used)

Update reported stats, available with container’s get_info.

Parameters
  • put_timestamp – put_timestamp to update

  • delete_timestamp – delete_timestamp to update

  • object_count – object_count to update

  • bytes_used – bytes_used to update

classmethod resolve_shard_range_states(states)

Given a list of values each of which may be the name of a state, the number of a state, or an alias, return the set of state numbers described by the list.

The following alias values are supported: ‘listing’ maps to all states that are considered valid when listing objects; ‘updating’ maps to all states that are considered valid for redirecting an object update; ‘auditing’ maps to all states that are considered valid for a shard container that is updating its own shard range table from a root (this currently maps to all states except FOUND).

Parameters

states – a list of values each of which may be the name of a state, the number of a state, or an alias

Returns

a set of integer state numbers, or None if no states are given

Raises

ValueError – if any value in the given list is neither a valid state nor a valid alias

set_sharded_state()

Unlink’s the broker’s retiring DB file.

Returns

True if the retiring DB was successfully unlinked, False otherwise.

set_sharding_state()

Creates and initializes a fresh DB file in preparation for sharding a retiring DB. The broker’s own shard range must have an epoch timestamp for this method to succeed.

Returns

True if the fresh DB was successfully created, False otherwise.

set_sharding_sysmeta(key, value)

Updates the broker’s metadata stored under the given key prefixed with a sharding specific namespace.

Parameters
  • key – metadata key in the sharding metadata namespace.

  • value – metadata value

set_storage_policy_index(policy_index, timestamp=None)

Update the container_stat policy_index and status_changed_at.

sharding_initiated()

Returns True if a broker has shard range state that would be necessary for sharding to have been initiated, False otherwise.

sharding_required()

Returns True if a broker has shard range state that would be necessary for sharding to have been initiated but has not yet completed sharding, False otherwise.

swift.container.backend.merge_shards(shard_data, existing)

Compares shard_data with existing and updates shard_data with any items of existing that take precedence over the corresponding item in shard_data.

Parameters
  • shard_data – a dict representation of shard range that may be modified by this method.

  • existing – a dict representation of shard range.

Returns

True if shard data has any item(s) that are considered to take precedence over the corresponding item in existing

swift.container.backend.sift_shard_ranges(new_shard_ranges, existing_shard_ranges)

Compares new and existing shard ranges, updating the new shard ranges with any more recent state from the existing, and returns shard ranges sorted into those that need adding because they contain new or updated state and those that need deleting because their state has been superseded.

Parameters
  • new_shard_ranges – a list of dicts, each of which represents a shard range.

  • existing_shard_ranges – a dict mapping shard range names to dicts representing a shard range.

Returns

a tuple (to_add, to_delete); to_add is a list of dicts, each of which represents a shard range that is to be added to the existing shard ranges; to_delete is a set of shard range names that are to be deleted.

swift.container.backend.update_new_item_from_existing(new_item, existing)

Compare the data and meta related timestamps of a new object item with the timestamps of an existing object record, and update the new item with data and/or meta related attributes from the existing record if their timestamps are newer.

The multiple timestamps are encoded into a single string for storing in the ‘created_at’ column of the objects db table.

Parameters
  • new_item – A dict of object update attributes

  • existing – A dict of existing object attributes

Returns

True if any attributes of the new item dict were found to be newer than the existing and therefore not updated, otherwise False implying that the updated item is equal to the existing.

Back-end API for Object Server REST APIs

Disk File Interface for the Swift Object Server

The DiskFile, DiskFileWriter and DiskFileReader classes combined define the on-disk abstraction layer for supporting the object server REST API interfaces (excluding REPLICATE). Other implementations wishing to provide an alternative backend for the object server must implement the three classes. An example alternative implementation can be found in the mem_server.py and mem_diskfile.py modules along size this one.

The DiskFileManager is a reference implemenation specific class and is not part of the backend API.

The remaining methods in this module are considered implementation specific and are also not considered part of the backend API.

class swift.obj.diskfile.AuditLocation(path, device, partition, policy)

Represents an object location to be audited.

Other than being a bucket of data, the only useful thing this does is stringify to a filesystem path so the auditor’s logs look okay.

class swift.obj.diskfile.BaseDiskFile(mgr, device_path, partition, account=None, container=None, obj=None, _datadir=None, policy=None, use_splice=False, pipe_size=None, open_expired=False, next_part_power=None, **kwargs)

Manage object files.

This specific implementation manages object files on a disk formatted with a POSIX-compliant file system that supports extended attributes as metadata on a file or directory.

Note

The arguments to the constructor are considered implementation specific. The API does not define the constructor arguments.

The following path format is used for data file locations: <devices_path/<device_dir>/<datadir>/<partdir>/<suffixdir>/<hashdir>/ <datafile>.<ext>

Parameters
  • mgr – associated DiskFileManager instance

  • device_path – path to the target device or drive

  • partition – partition on the device in which the object lives

  • account – account name for the object

  • container – container name for the object

  • obj – object name for the object

  • _datadir – override the full datadir otherwise constructed here

  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

  • use_splice – if true, use zero-copy splice() to send data

  • pipe_size – size of pipe buffer used in zero-copy operations

  • open_expired – if True, open() will not raise a DiskFileExpired if object is expired

  • next_part_power – the next partition power to be used

create(size=None)

Context manager to create a file. We create a temporary file first, and then return a DiskFileWriter object to encapsulate the state.

Note

An implementation is not required to perform on-disk preallocations even if the parameter is specified. But if it does and it fails, it must raise a DiskFileNoSpace exception.

Parameters

size – optional initial size of file to explicitly allocate on disk

Raises

DiskFileNoSpace – if a size is specified and allocation fails

delete(timestamp)

Delete the object.

This implementation creates a tombstone file using the given timestamp, and removes any older versions of the object file. Any file that has an older timestamp than timestamp will be deleted.

Note

An implementation is free to use or ignore the timestamp parameter.

Parameters

timestamp – timestamp to compare with each file

Raises

DiskFileError – this implementation will raise the same errors as the create() method.

property durable_timestamp

Provides the timestamp of the newest data file found in the object directory.

Returns

A Timestamp instance, or None if no data file was found.

Raises

DiskFileNotOpen – if the open() method has not been previously called on this instance.

get_datafile_metadata()

Provide the datafile metadata for a previously opened object as a dictionary. This is metadata that was included when the object was first PUT, and does not include metadata set by any subsequent POST.

Returns

object’s datafile metadata dictionary

Raises

DiskFileNotOpen – if the swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile.open() method was not previously invoked

get_metadata()

Provide the metadata for a previously opened object as a dictionary.

Returns

object’s metadata dictionary

Raises

DiskFileNotOpen – if the swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile.open() method was not previously invoked

get_metafile_metadata()

Provide the metafile metadata for a previously opened object as a dictionary. This is metadata that was written by a POST and does not include any persistent metadata that was set by the original PUT.

Returns

object’s .meta file metadata dictionary, or None if there is no .meta file

Raises

DiskFileNotOpen – if the swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile.open() method was not previously invoked

open(modernize=False, current_time=None)

Open the object.

This implementation opens the data file representing the object, reads the associated metadata in the extended attributes, additionally combining metadata from fast-POST .meta files.

Parameters
  • modernize – if set, update this diskfile to the latest format. Currently, this means adding metadata checksums if none are present.

  • current_time – Unix time used in checking expiration. If not present, the current time will be used.

Note

An implementation is allowed to raise any of the following exceptions, but is only required to raise DiskFileNotExist when the object representation does not exist.

Raises
Returns

itself for use as a context manager

read_metadata(current_time=None)

Return the metadata for an object without requiring the caller to open the object first.

Parameters

current_time – Unix time used in checking expiration. If not present, the current time will be used.

Returns

metadata dictionary for an object

Raises

DiskFileError – this implementation will raise the same errors as the open() method.

reader(keep_cache=False, _quarantine_hook=<function BaseDiskFile.<lambda>>)

Return a swift.common.swob.Response class compatible “app_iter” object as defined by swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileReader.

For this implementation, the responsibility of closing the open file is passed to the swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileReader object.

Parameters
  • keep_cache – caller’s preference for keeping data read in the OS buffer cache

  • _quarantine_hook – 1-arg callable called when obj quarantined; the arg is the reason for quarantine. Default is to ignore it. Not needed by the REST layer.

Returns

a swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileReader object

write_metadata(metadata)

Write a block of metadata to an object without requiring the caller to create the object first. Supports fast-POST behavior semantics.

Parameters

metadata – dictionary of metadata to be associated with the object

Raises

DiskFileError – this implementation will raise the same errors as the create() method.

class swift.obj.diskfile.BaseDiskFileManager(conf, logger)

Management class for devices, providing common place for shared parameters and methods not provided by the DiskFile class (which primarily services the object server REST API layer).

The get_diskfile() method is how this implementation creates a DiskFile object.

Note

This class is reference implementation specific and not part of the pluggable on-disk backend API.

Note

TODO(portante): Not sure what the right name to recommend here, as “manager” seemed generic enough, though suggestions are welcome.

Parameters
  • conf – caller provided configuration object

  • logger – caller provided logger

cleanup_ondisk_files(hsh_path, **kwargs)

Clean up on-disk files that are obsolete and gather the set of valid on-disk files for an object.

Parameters
  • hsh_path – object hash path

  • frag_index – if set, search for a specific fragment index .data file, otherwise accept the first valid .data file

Returns

a dict that may contain: valid on disk files keyed by their filename extension; a list of obsolete files stored under the key ‘obsolete’; a list of files remaining in the directory, reverse sorted, stored under the key ‘files’.

static consolidate_hashes(partition_dir)

Take what’s in hashes.pkl and hashes.invalid, combine them, write the result back to hashes.pkl, and clear out hashes.invalid.

Parameters

partition_dir – absolute path to partition dir containing hashes.pkl and hashes.invalid

Returns

a dict, the suffix hashes (if any), the key ‘valid’ will be False if hashes.pkl is corrupt, cannot be read or does not exist

construct_dev_path(device)

Construct the path to a device without checking if it is mounted.

Parameters

device – name of target device

Returns

full path to the device

get_dev_path(device, mount_check=None)

Return the path to a device, first checking to see if either it is a proper mount point, or at least a directory depending on the mount_check configuration option.

Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • mount_check – whether or not to check mountedness of device. Defaults to bool(self.mount_check).

Returns

full path to the device, None if the path to the device is not a proper mount point or directory.

get_diskfile(device, partition, account, container, obj, policy, **kwargs)

Returns a BaseDiskFile instance for an object based on the object’s partition, path parts and policy.

Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • partition – partition on device in which the object lives

  • account – account name for the object

  • container – container name for the object

  • obj – object name for the object

  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

get_diskfile_and_filenames_from_hash(device, partition, object_hash, policy, **kwargs)

Returns a tuple of (a DiskFile instance for an object at the given object_hash, the basenames of the files in the object’s hash dir). Just in case someone thinks of refactoring, be sure DiskFileDeleted is not raised, but the DiskFile instance representing the tombstoned object is returned instead.

Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • partition – partition on the device in which the object lives

  • object_hash – the hash of an object path

  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

Raises

DiskFileNotExist – if the object does not exist

Returns

a tuple comprising (an instance of BaseDiskFile, a list of file basenames)

get_diskfile_from_audit_location(audit_location)

Returns a BaseDiskFile instance for an object at the given AuditLocation.

Parameters

audit_location – object location to be audited

get_diskfile_from_hash(device, partition, object_hash, policy, **kwargs)

Returns a DiskFile instance for an object at the given object_hash. Just in case someone thinks of refactoring, be sure DiskFileDeleted is not raised, but the DiskFile instance representing the tombstoned object is returned instead.

Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • partition – partition on the device in which the object lives

  • object_hash – the hash of an object path

  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

Raises

DiskFileNotExist – if the object does not exist

Returns

an instance of BaseDiskFile

get_hashes(device, partition, suffixes, policy, skip_rehash=False)
Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • partition – partition name

  • suffixes – a list of suffix directories to be recalculated

  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

  • skip_rehash – just mark the suffixes dirty; return None

Returns

a dictionary that maps suffix directories

get_ondisk_files(files, datadir, verify=True, policy=None, **kwargs)

Given a simple list of files names, determine the files that constitute a valid fileset i.e. a set of files that defines the state of an object, and determine the files that are obsolete and could be deleted. Note that some files may fall into neither category.

If a file is considered part of a valid fileset then its info dict will be added to the results dict, keyed by <extension>_info. Any files that are no longer required will have their info dicts added to a list stored under the key ‘obsolete’.

The results dict will always contain entries with keys ‘ts_file’, ‘data_file’ and ‘meta_file’. Their values will be the fully qualified path to a file of the corresponding type if there is such a file in the valid fileset, or None.

Parameters
  • files – a list of file names.

  • datadir – directory name files are from; this is used to construct file paths in the results, but the datadir is not modified by this method.

  • verify – if True verify that the ondisk file contract has not been violated, otherwise do not verify.

  • policy – storage policy used to store the files. Used to validate fragment indexes for EC policies.

Returns

a dict that will contain keys:

ts_file -> path to a .ts file or None data_file -> path to a .data file or None meta_file -> path to a .meta file or None ctype_file -> path to a .meta file or None

and may contain keys:

ts_info -> a file info dict for a .ts file data_info -> a file info dict for a .data file meta_info -> a file info dict for a .meta file ctype_info -> a file info dict for a .meta file which contains the content-type value unexpected -> a list of file paths for unexpected files possible_reclaim -> a list of file info dicts for possible reclaimable files obsolete -> a list of file info dicts for obsolete files

static invalidate_hash(suffix_dir)

Invalidates the hash for a suffix_dir in the partition’s hashes file.

Parameters

suffix_dir – absolute path to suffix dir whose hash needs invalidating

make_on_disk_filename(timestamp, ext=None, ctype_timestamp=None, *a, **kw)

Returns filename for given timestamp.

Parameters
  • timestamp – the object timestamp, an instance of Timestamp

  • ext – an optional string representing a file extension to be appended to the returned file name

  • ctype_timestamp – an optional content-type timestamp, an instance of Timestamp

Returns

a file name

object_audit_location_generator(policy, device_dirs=None, auditor_type='ALL')

Yield an AuditLocation for all objects stored under device_dirs.

Parameters
  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

  • device_dirs – directory of target device

  • auditor_type – either ALL or ZBF

parse_on_disk_filename(filename, policy)

Parse an on disk file name.

Parameters
  • filename – the file name including extension

  • policy – storage policy used to store the file

Returns

a dict, with keys for timestamp, ext and ctype_timestamp:

  • timestamp is a Timestamp

  • ctype_timestamp is a Timestamp or None for .meta files, otherwise None

  • ext is a string, the file extension including the leading dot or the empty string if the filename has no extension.

Subclasses may override this method to add further keys to the returned dict.

Raises

DiskFileError – if any part of the filename is not able to be validated.

partition_lock(device, policy, partition, name=None, timeout=None)

A context manager that will lock on the partition given.

Parameters
  • device – device targeted by the lock request

  • policy – policy targeted by the lock request

  • partition – partition targeted by the lock request

Raises

PartitionLockTimeout – If the lock on the partition cannot be granted within the configured timeout.

pickle_async_update(device, account, container, obj, data, timestamp, policy)

Write data describing a container update notification to a pickle file in the async_pending directory.

Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • account – account name for the object

  • container – container name for the object

  • obj – object name for the object

  • data – update data to be written to pickle file

  • timestamp – a Timestamp

  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

static quarantine_renamer(device_path, corrupted_file_path)

In the case that a file is corrupted, move it to a quarantined area to allow replication to fix it.

Params device_path

The path to the device the corrupted file is on.

Params corrupted_file_path

The path to the file you want quarantined.

Returns

path (str) of directory the file was moved to

Raises

OSError – re-raises non errno.EEXIST / errno.ENOTEMPTY exceptions from rename

replication_lock(device, policy, partition)

A context manager that will lock on the partition and, if configured to do so, on the device given.

Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • policy – policy targeted by the replication request

  • partition – partition targeted by the replication request

Raises

ReplicationLockTimeout – If the lock on the device cannot be granted within the configured timeout.

yield_hashes(device, partition, policy, suffixes=None, **kwargs)

Yields tuples of (hash_only, timestamps) for object information stored for the given device, partition, and (optionally) suffixes. If suffixes is None, all stored suffixes will be searched for object hashes. Note that if suffixes is not None but empty, such as [], then nothing will be yielded.

timestamps is a dict which may contain items mapping:

  • ts_data -> timestamp of data or tombstone file,

  • ts_meta -> timestamp of meta file, if one exists

  • ts_ctype -> timestamp of meta file containing most recent

    content-type value, if one exists

  • durable -> True if data file at ts_data is durable, False otherwise

where timestamps are instances of Timestamp

Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • partition – partition name

  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

  • suffixes – optional list of suffix directories to be searched

yield_suffixes(device, partition, policy)

Yields tuples of (full_path, suffix_only) for suffixes stored on the given device and partition.

Parameters
  • device – name of target device

  • partition – partition name

  • policy – the StoragePolicy instance

class swift.obj.diskfile.BaseDiskFileReader(fp, data_file, obj_size, etag, disk_chunk_size, keep_cache_size, device_path, logger, quarantine_hook, use_splice, pipe_size, diskfile, keep_cache=False)

Encapsulation of the WSGI read context for servicing GET REST API requests. Serves as the context manager object for the swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile class’s swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile.reader() method.

Note

The quarantining behavior of this method is considered implementation specific, and is not required of the API.

Note

The arguments to the constructor are considered implementation specific. The API does not define the constructor arguments.

Parameters
  • fp – open file object pointer reference

  • data_file – on-disk data file name for the object

  • obj_size – verified on-disk size of the object

  • etag – expected metadata etag value for entire file

  • disk_chunk_size – size of reads from disk in bytes

  • keep_cache_size – maximum object size that will be kept in cache

  • device_path – on-disk device path, used when quarantining an obj

  • logger – logger caller wants this object to use

  • quarantine_hook – 1-arg callable called w/reason when quarantined

  • use_splice – if true, use zero-copy splice() to send data

  • pipe_size – size of pipe buffer used in zero-copy operations

  • diskfile – the diskfile creating this DiskFileReader instance

  • keep_cache – should resulting reads be kept in the buffer cache

app_iter_range(start, stop)

Returns an iterator over the data file for range (start, stop)

app_iter_ranges(ranges, content_type, boundary, size)

Returns an iterator over the data file for a set of ranges

close()

Close the open file handle if present.

For this specific implementation, this method will handle quarantining the file if necessary.

zero_copy_send(wsockfd)

Does some magic with splice() and tee() to move stuff from disk to network without ever touching userspace.

Parameters

wsockfd – file descriptor (integer) of the socket out which to send data

class swift.obj.diskfile.BaseDiskFileWriter(name, datadir, size, bytes_per_sync, diskfile, next_part_power)

Encapsulation of the write context for servicing PUT REST API requests. Serves as the context manager object for the swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile class’s swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile.create() method.

Note

It is the responsibility of the swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile.create() method context manager to close the open file descriptor.

Note

The arguments to the constructor are considered implementation specific. The API does not define the constructor arguments.

Parameters
  • name – name of object from REST API

  • datadir – on-disk directory object will end up in on swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileWriter.put()

  • fd – open file descriptor of temporary file to receive data

  • tmppath – full path name of the opened file descriptor

  • bytes_per_sync – number bytes written between sync calls

  • diskfile – the diskfile creating this DiskFileWriter instance

  • next_part_power – the next partition power to be used

chunks_finished()

Expose internal stats about written chunks.

Returns

a tuple, (upload_size, etag)

commit(timestamp)

Perform any operations necessary to mark the object as durable. For replication policy type this is a no-op.

Parameters

timestamp – object put timestamp, an instance of Timestamp

put(metadata)

Finalize writing the file on disk.

Parameters

metadata – dictionary of metadata to be associated with the object

write(chunk)

Write a chunk of data to disk. All invocations of this method must come before invoking the :func:

For this implementation, the data is written into a temporary file.

Parameters

chunk – the chunk of data to write as a string object

class swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile(mgr, device_path, partition, account=None, container=None, obj=None, _datadir=None, policy=None, use_splice=False, pipe_size=None, open_expired=False, next_part_power=None, **kwargs)
reader_cls

alias of swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileReader

writer_cls

alias of swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileWriter

class swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileManager(conf, logger)
diskfile_cls

alias of swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFile

class swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileReader(fp, data_file, obj_size, etag, disk_chunk_size, keep_cache_size, device_path, logger, quarantine_hook, use_splice, pipe_size, diskfile, keep_cache=False)
class swift.obj.diskfile.DiskFileWriter(name, datadir, size, bytes_per_sync, diskfile, next_part_power)
put(metadata)

Finalize writing the file on disk.

Parameters

metadata – dictionary of metadata to be associated with the object

class swift.obj.diskfile.ECDiskFile(*args, **kwargs)
property durable_timestamp

Provides the timestamp of the newest durable file found in the object directory.

Returns

A Timestamp instance, or None if no durable file was found.

Raises

DiskFileNotOpen – if the open() method has not been previously called on this instance.

property fragments

Provides information about all fragments that were found in the object directory, including fragments without a matching durable file, and including any fragment chosen to construct the opened diskfile.

Returns

A dict mapping <Timestamp instance> -> <list of frag indexes>, or None if the diskfile has not been opened or no fragments were found.

purge(timestamp, frag_index, nondurable_purge_delay=0, meta_timestamp=None)

Remove a tombstone file matching the specified timestamp or datafile matching the specified timestamp and fragment index from the object directory.

This provides the EC reconstructor/ssync process with a way to remove a tombstone or fragment from a handoff node after reverting it to its primary node.

The hash will be invalidated, and if empty the hsh_path will be removed immediately.

Parameters
  • timestamp – the object timestamp, an instance of Timestamp

  • frag_index – fragment archive index, must be a whole number or None.

  • nondurable_purge_delay – only remove a non-durable data file if it’s been on disk longer than this many seconds.

  • meta_timestamp – if not None then remove any meta file with this timestamp

reader_cls

alias of swift.obj.diskfile.ECDiskFileReader

writer_cls

alias of swift.obj.diskfile.ECDiskFileWriter

class swift.obj.diskfile.ECDiskFileManager(conf, logger)
diskfile_cls

alias of swift.obj.diskfile.ECDiskFile

make_on_disk_filename(timestamp, ext=None, frag_index=None, ctype_timestamp=None, durable=False, *a, **kw)

Returns the EC specific filename for given timestamp.

Parameters
  • timestamp – the object timestamp, an instance of Timestamp

  • ext – an optional string representing a file extension to be appended to the returned file name

  • frag_index – a fragment archive index, used with .data extension only, must be a whole number.

  • ctype_timestamp – an optional content-type timestamp, an instance of Timestamp

  • durable – if True then include a durable marker in data filename.

Returns

a file name

Raises

DiskFileError – if ext==’.data’ and the kwarg frag_index is not a whole number

parse_on_disk_filename(filename, policy)

Returns timestamp(s) and other info extracted from a policy specific file name. For EC policy the data file name includes a fragment index and possibly a durable marker, both of which must be stripped off to retrieve the timestamp.

Parameters

filename – the file name including extension

Returns

a dict, with keys for timestamp, frag_index, durable, ext and

ctype_timestamp:

  • timestamp is a Timestamp

  • frag_index is an int or None

  • ctype_timestamp is a Timestamp or None for .meta files, otherwise None

  • ext is a string, the file extension including the leading dot or the empty string if the filename has no extension

  • durable is a boolean that is True if the filename is a data file that includes a durable marker

Raises

DiskFileError – if any part of the filename is not able to be validated.

validate_fragment_index(frag_index, policy=None)

Return int representation of frag_index, or raise a DiskFileError if frag_index is not a whole number.

Parameters
  • frag_index – a fragment archive index

  • policy – storage policy used to validate the index against

class swift.obj.diskfile.ECDiskFileReader(fp, data_file, obj_size, etag, disk_chunk_size, keep_cache_size, device_path, logger, quarantine_hook, use_splice, pipe_size, diskfile, keep_cache=False)
class swift.obj.diskfile.ECDiskFileWriter(name, datadir, size, bytes_per_sync, diskfile, next_part_power)
commit(timestamp)

Finalize put by renaming the object data file to include a durable marker. We do this for EC policy because it requires a 2-phase put commit confirmation.

Parameters

timestamp – object put timestamp, an instance of Timestamp

Raises

DiskFileError – if the diskfile frag_index has not been set (either during initialisation or a call to put())

put(metadata)

The only difference between this method and the replication policy DiskFileWriter method is adding the frag index to the metadata.

Parameters

metadata – dictionary of metadata to be associated with object

swift.obj.diskfile.consolidate_hashes(partition_dir)

Take what’s in hashes.pkl and hashes.invalid, combine them, write the result back to hashes.pkl, and clear out hashes.invalid.

Parameters

partition_dir – absolute path to partition dir containing hashes.pkl and hashes.invalid

Returns

a dict, the suffix hashes (if any), the key ‘valid’ will be False if hashes.pkl is corrupt, cannot be read or does not exist

swift.obj.diskfile.extract_policy(obj_path)

Extracts the policy for an object (based on the name of the objects directory) given the device-relative path to the object. Returns None in the event that the path is malformed in some way.

The device-relative path is everything after the mount point; for example:

/srv/node/d42/objects-5/30/179/

485dc017205a81df3af616d917c90179/1401811134.873649.data

would have device-relative path:

objects-5/30/179/485dc017205a81df3af616d917c90179/1401811134.873649.data

Parameters

obj_path – device-relative path of an object, or the full path

Returns

a BaseStoragePolicy or None

swift.obj.diskfile.get_async_dir(policy_or_index)

Get the async dir for the given policy.

Parameters

policy_or_indexStoragePolicy instance, or an index (string or int); if None, the legacy Policy-0 is assumed.

Returns

async_pending or async_pending-<N> as appropriate

swift.obj.diskfile.get_data_dir(policy_or_index)

Get the data dir for the given policy.

Parameters

policy_or_indexStoragePolicy instance, or an index (string or int); if None, the legacy Policy-0 is assumed.

Returns

objects or objects-<N> as appropriate

swift.obj.diskfile.get_part_path(dev_path, policy, partition)

Given the device path, policy, and partition, returns the full path to the partition

swift.obj.diskfile.get_tmp_dir(policy_or_index)

Get the temp dir for the given policy.

Parameters

policy_or_indexStoragePolicy instance, or an index (string or int); if None, the legacy Policy-0 is assumed.

Returns

tmp or tmp-<N> as appropriate

swift.obj.diskfile.invalidate_hash(suffix_dir)

Invalidates the hash for a suffix_dir in the partition’s hashes file.

Parameters

suffix_dir – absolute path to suffix dir whose hash needs invalidating

swift.obj.diskfile.object_audit_location_generator(devices, datadir, mount_check=True, logger=None, device_dirs=None, auditor_type='ALL')

Given a devices path (e.g. “/srv/node”), yield an AuditLocation for all objects stored under that directory for the given datadir (policy), if device_dirs isn’t set. If device_dirs is set, only yield AuditLocation for the objects under the entries in device_dirs. The AuditLocation only knows the path to the hash directory, not to the .data file therein (if any). This is to avoid a double listdir(hash_dir); the DiskFile object will always do one, so we don’t.

Parameters
  • devices – parent directory of the devices to be audited

  • datadir – objects directory

  • mount_check – flag to check if a mount check should be performed on devices

  • logger – a logger object

  • device_dirs – a list of directories under devices to traverse

  • auditor_type – either ALL or ZBF

swift.obj.diskfile.quarantine_renamer(device_path, corrupted_file_path)

In the case that a file is corrupted, move it to a quarantined area to allow replication to fix it.

Params device_path

The path to the device the corrupted file is on.

Params corrupted_file_path

The path to the file you want quarantined.

Returns

path (str) of directory the file was moved to

Raises

OSError – re-raises non errno.EEXIST / errno.ENOTEMPTY exceptions from rename

swift.obj.diskfile.read_hashes(partition_dir)

Read the existing hashes.pkl

Returns

a dict, the suffix hashes (if any), the key ‘valid’ will be False if hashes.pkl is corrupt, cannot be read or does not exist

swift.obj.diskfile.read_metadata(fd, add_missing_checksum=False)

Helper function to read the pickled metadata from an object file.

Parameters
  • fd – file descriptor or filename to load the metadata from

  • add_missing_checksum – if set and checksum is missing, add it

Returns

dictionary of metadata

swift.obj.diskfile.relink_paths(target_path, new_target_path, ignore_missing=True)

Hard-links a file located in target_path using the second path new_target_path. Creates intermediate directories if required.

Parameters
  • target_path – current absolute filename

  • new_target_path – new absolute filename for the hardlink

  • ignore_missing – if True then no exception is raised if the link could not be made because target_path did not exist, otherwise an OSError will be raised.

Raises

OSError if the hard link could not be created, unless the intended hard link already exists or the target_path does not exist and must_exist if False.

Returns

True if the link was created by the call to this method, False otherwise.

swift.obj.diskfile.write_hashes(partition_dir, hashes)

Write hashes to hashes.pkl

The updated key is added to hashes before it is written.

swift.obj.diskfile.write_metadata(fd, metadata, xattr_size=65536)

Helper function to write pickled metadata for an object file.

Parameters
  • fd – file descriptor or filename to write the metadata

  • metadata – metadata to write