# typecast.py - example of per-cursor and per-connection typecasters. # # Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Federico Di Gregorio # # psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public # License for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) class SimpleQuoter(object): def sqlquote(x=None): return "'bar'" import sys import psycopg2 import psycopg2.extensions if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dsn:", DSN conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print "Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT 'text'::text AS foo") textoid = curs.description[0][1] print "Oid for the text datatype is", textoid def castA(s, curs): if s is not None: return "(A) " + s TYPEA = psycopg2.extensions.new_type((textoid,), "TYPEA", castA) def castB(s, curs): if s is not None: return "(B) " + s TYPEB = psycopg2.extensions.new_type((textoid,), "TYPEB", castB) curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT 'some text.'::text AS foo") print "Some text from plain connection:", curs.fetchone()[0] psycopg2.extensions.register_type(TYPEA, conn) curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT 'some text.'::text AS foo") print "Some text from connection with typecaster:", curs.fetchone()[0] curs = conn.cursor() psycopg2.extensions.register_type(TYPEB, curs) curs.execute("SELECT 'some text.'::text AS foo") print "Some text from cursor with typecaster:", curs.fetchone()[0] curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT 'some text.'::text AS foo") print "Some text from connection with typecaster again:", curs.fetchone()[0]