Added documentation for the extras module.

doc/extras.rst

@@ -8,4 +8,135 @@
 This module is a generic place used to hold little helper functions and
 classes until a better place in the distribution is found.
 
-.. todo:: psycopg2.extras
+
+.. index::
+    pair: Cursor; Dictionary
+
+.. _dict-cursor:
+
+Dictionary-like cursor
+----------------------
+
+The dict cursors allow to access to the retrieved records using an iterface
+similar to the Python dictionaries instead of the tuples. You can use it
+either passing :class:`DictConnection` as :obj:`!connection_factory` argument
+to the :func:`~psycopg2.connect` function or passing :class:`DictCursor` as
+the :class:`!cursor_factory` argument to the :meth:`~connection.cursor` method
+of a regular :class:`connection`. ::
+
+    >>> conn = psycopg2.connect(database='test')
+    >>> cur = conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor)
+    >>> cur.execute("SELECT * FROM test")
+    >>> rec['id']
+    1
+    >>> rec['num']
+    100
+    >>> rec['data']
+    "abc'def"
+
+    # The records still support indexing as the original tuple
+    >>> rec[2]
+    "abc'def"
+
+
+.. autoclass:: DictCursor
+
+.. autoclass:: DictConnection
+
+.. autoclass:: DictRow
+
+
+Real dictionary cursor
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+.. autoclass:: RealDictCursor
+
+.. autoclass:: RealDictConnection
+
+.. autoclass:: RealDictRow
+
+
+
+.. index::
+    pair: Cursor; Logging
+
+Logging cursor
+--------------
+
+.. autoclass:: LoggingConnection
+    :members: initialize,filter
+
+.. autoclass:: LoggingCursor
+
+
+.. autoclass:: MinTimeLoggingConnection
+    :members: initialize,filter
+
+.. autoclass:: MinTimeLoggingCursor
+
+
+
+.. index::
+    pair: UUID; Data types
+
+UUID data type
+--------------
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0.9
+.. versionchanged:: 2.0.13 added UUID array support.
+
+::
+
+    >>> psycopg2.extras.register_uuid()
+
+    # Python UUID can be used in SQL queries
+    >>> psycopg2.extensions.adapt(uuid.uuid4()).getquoted()
+    "'1ad2b180-c17e-46ad-ad94-e1f0dfc7c34b'::uuid"
+
+    # PostgreSQL UUID are transformed into Python UUID objects.
+    >>> conn = psycopg2.connect(database='test')
+    >>> cur = conn.cursor()
+    >>> cur.execute("SELECT 'a0eebc99-9c0b-4ef8-bb6d-6bb9bd380a11'::uuid")
+    >>> cur.fetchone()[0]
+    UUID('a0eebc99-9c0b-4ef8-bb6d-6bb9bd380a11')
+
+
+.. autofunction:: register_uuid
+
+.. autoclass:: UUID_adapter
+
+
+
+.. index::
+    pair: INET; Data types
+
+INET data type
+--------------
+::
+
+    >>> psycopg2.extras.register_inet()
+
+    >>> conn = psycopg2.connect(database='test')
+    >>> cur = conn.cursor()
+    >>> cur.execute("SELECT '192.168.0.1'::inet")
+    >>> cur.fetchone()[0].addr
+    '192.168.0.1'
+
+.. autofunction:: register_inet()
+
+.. autoclass:: Inet
+
+.. todo:: Adapter non registered: how to register it?
+
+
+
+.. index::
+    single: Time zones; Fractional
+
+Fractional time zones
+---------------------
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0.10
+
+.. autofunction:: register_tstz_w_secs
+

doc/usage.rst

@@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ Many standards Python types are adapted into SQL and returned as Python
 objects when a query is executed.
 
 If you need to convert other Python types to and from PostgreSQL data types,
-see :ref:`adapting-new-types` and :ref:`type-casting-from-sql-to-python`.
+see :ref:`adapting-new-types` and :ref:`type-casting-from-sql-to-python`.  You
+can also find a few other specialized adapters in the :mod:`psycopg2.extras`
+module.
 
 In the following examples the method :meth:`~cursor.mogrify` is used to show
 the SQL string that would be sent to the database.

lib/extras.py

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class DictCursorBase(_cursor):
         return res
 
 class DictConnection(_connection):
-    """A connection that uses DictCursor automatically."""
+    """A connection that uses :class:`DictCursor` automatically."""
     def cursor(self, name=None):
         if name is None:
             return _connection.cursor(self, cursor_factory=DictCursor)
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class DictRow(list):
         return self._index.__contains__(x)
 
 class RealDictConnection(_connection):
-    """A connection that uses RealDictCursor automatically."""
+    """A connection that uses :class:`RealDictCursor` automatically."""
     def cursor(self, name=None):
         if name is None:
             return _connection.cursor(self, cursor_factory=RealDictCursor)
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ class RealDictCursor(DictCursorBase):
     Note that this cursor is extremely specialized and does not allow
     the normal access (using integer indices) to fetched data. If you need
     to access database rows both as a dictionary and a list, then use
-    the generic DictCursor instead of RealDictCursor.
+    the generic :class:`DictCursor` instead of :class:`!RealDictCursor`.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ class RealDictCursor(DictCursorBase):
             self._query_executed = 0
 
 class RealDictRow(dict):
+    """A ``dict`` subclass representing a data record."""
 
     __slots__ = ('_column_mapping')
 
@@ -232,13 +233,16 @@ class RealDictRow(dict):
 
 
 class LoggingConnection(_connection):
-    """A connection that logs all queries to a file or logger object."""
+    """A connection that logs all queries to a file or logger__ object.
+
+    .. __: http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html
+    """
 
     def initialize(self, logobj):
-        """Initialize the connection to log to `logobj`.
+        """Initialize the connection to log to ``logobj``.
 
-        The `logobj` parameter can be an open file object or a Logger instance
-        from the standard logging module.
+        The ``logobj`` parameter can be an open file object or a Logger
+        instance from the standard logging module.
         """
         self._logobj = logobj
         if logging and isinstance(logobj, logging.Logger):
@@ -294,12 +298,13 @@ class LoggingCursor(_cursor):
 class MinTimeLoggingConnection(LoggingConnection):
     """A connection that logs queries based on execution time.
     
-    This is just an example of how to sub-class LoggingConnection to provide
-    some extra filtering for the logged queries. Both the `.inizialize()` and
-    `.filter()` methods are overwritten to make sure that only queries
-    executing for more than `mintime` ms are logged.
+    This is just an example of how to sub-class :class:`LoggingConnection` to
+    provide some extra filtering for the logged queries. Both the
+    :meth:`inizialize` and :meth:`filter` methods are overwritten to make sure
+    that only queries executing for more than ``mintime`` ms are logged.
     
-    Note that this connection uses the specialized cursor MinTimeLoggingCursor.
+    Note that this connection uses the specialized cursor
+    :class:`MinTimeLoggingCursor`.
     """
     def initialize(self, logobj, mintime=0):
         LoggingConnection.initialize(self, logobj)
@@ -318,7 +323,7 @@ class MinTimeLoggingConnection(LoggingConnection):
             return _connection.cursor(self, name, cursor_factory=MinTimeLoggingCursor)
     
 class MinTimeLoggingCursor(LoggingCursor):
-    """The cursor sub-class companion to MinTimeLoggingConnection."""
+    """The cursor sub-class companion to :class:`MinTimeLoggingConnection`."""
 
     def execute(self, query, vars=None, async=0):
         self.timestamp = time.time()
@@ -335,7 +340,11 @@ try:
     import uuid
 
     class UUID_adapter(object):
-        """Adapt Python's uuid.UUID type to PostgreSQL's uuid."""
+        """Adapt Python's uuid.UUID__ type to PostgreSQL's uuid__.
+
+        .. __: http://docs.python.org/library/uuid.html
+        .. __: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-uuid.html
+        """
         
         def __init__(self, uuid):
             self._uuid = uuid
@@ -440,7 +449,7 @@ def _convert_tstz_w_secs(s, cursor):
         return DATETIME(s[:-3], cursor)
 
 def register_tstz_w_secs(oids=None, conn_or_curs=None):
-    """Register alternate type caster for TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE.
+    """Register alternate type caster for :sql:`TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE`.
 
     The Python datetime module cannot handle time zones with
     seconds in the UTC offset. There are, however, historical
@@ -451,16 +460,16 @@ def register_tstz_w_secs(oids=None, conn_or_curs=None):
     timestamp you likely want to try this type caster. It truncates
     the seconds from the time zone data and retries casting
     the timestamp. Note that this will generate timestamps
-    which are INACCURATE by the number of seconds truncated
+    which are **inaccurate** by the number of seconds truncated
     (unless the seconds were 00).
 
-    <oids>
+    :param oids:
             which OIDs to use this type caster for,
-            defaults to TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
-    <conn_or_curs>
+            defaults to :sql:`TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE`
+    :param conn_or_curs:
             a cursor or connection if you want to attach
             this type caster to that only, defaults to
-            None meaning all connections and cursors
+            ``None`` meaning all connections and cursors
     """
     if oids is None:
         oids = (1184,) # hardcoded from PostgreSQL headers