# typecast.py - example of per-cursor and per-connection typecasters. # # Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Federico Di Gregorio # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later # version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 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 dns:", 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]