Libmsi.Database¶

Subclasses:: None

Methods¶

Inherited:: GObject.Object (37)
Structs:: GObject.ObjectClass (5)

class	`new` (path, flags, persist)
	`apply_transform` (file)
	`commit` ()
	`export` (table, fd)
	`get_primary_keys` (table)
	`import_` (path)
	`is_readonly` ()
	`is_table_persistent` (table)
	`merge` (merge, table)

Virtual Methods¶

Inherited:: GObject.Object (7)

Properties¶

Name	Type	Flags	Short Description
`flags`	`Libmsi.DbFlags`	r/w/co	flags
`outpath`	`str`	r/w/co	outpath
`path`	`str`	r/w/co	path

Signals¶

Inherited:: GObject.Object (1)

Fields¶

Inherited:: GObject.Object (1)

Class Details¶

class Libmsi.Database(**kwargs)¶

Bases:: GObject.Object
Abstract:: No
Structure:: Libmsi.DatabaseClass

classmethod new(path, flags, persist)¶

Parameters:

path (str) – path to a MSI file
flags (int) – Libmsi.DbFlags opening flags
persist (str or None) – path to output MSI file

Raises:

GLib.Error

Returns:

a new Libmsi.Database on success, None if fail.

Return type:

Libmsi.Database

Create a MSI database or open from path.

apply_transform(file)¶

Parameters:: file (str) – an MST transform file path
Raises:: GLib.Error
Returns:: True on success
Return type:: bool

FIXME

commit()¶

Raises:: GLib.Error
Returns:: True on success.
Return type:: bool

export(table, fd)¶

Parameters:

table (str) – a table name
fd (int) – a file descriptor

Raises:

GLib.Error

Returns:

True on success

Return type:

bool

Writes a file containing the table data as tab separated ASCII. The format is as follows:

row1 : colname1 <tab> colname2 <tab> …. colnameN <cr> <lf> row2 : coltype1 <tab> coltype2 <tab> …. coltypeN <cr> <lf> row3 : tablename <tab> key1 <tab> key2 <tab> … keyM <cr> <lf>

Followed by the data, starting at row 1 with one row per line

row4 : data <tab> data <tab> data <tab> … data <cr> <lf>

get_primary_keys(table)¶

Parameters:: table (str) – an exisiting table name
Raises:: GLib.Error
Returns:: a Libmsi.Record containing the names of all the primary key columns.
Return type:: Libmsi.Record

import_(path)¶

Parameters:: path (str) – path to a table file
Raises:: GLib.Error
Returns:: True on success
Return type:: bool

Import a table to the database from file path.

is_readonly()¶

Returns:: True if the database is read-only.
Return type:: bool

is_table_persistent(table)¶

Parameters:: table (str) – an exisiting table name
Raises:: GLib.Error
Returns:: True if the table is persistent, False if it’s temporary
Return type:: bool

merge(merge, table)¶

Parameters:

merge (Libmsi.Database) – a Libmsi.Database to merge
table (str or None) – an optionnal table name

Raises:

GLib.Error

Returns:

True on success

Return type:

bool

Property Details¶

Libmsi.Database.props.flags¶

Name:: flags
Type:: Libmsi.DbFlags
Default Value:: 0
Flags:: READABLE, WRITABLE, CONSTRUCT_ONLY

flags

Libmsi.Database.props.outpath¶

Name:: outpath
Type:: str
Default Value:: None
Flags:: READABLE, WRITABLE, CONSTRUCT_ONLY

outpath

Libmsi.Database.props.path¶

Name:: path
Type:: str
Default Value:: None
Flags:: READABLE, WRITABLE, CONSTRUCT_ONLY

path