From d4550301ebed79e5513f390d91b13cd17a25f7fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Korbinian Preisler <timitos@virtual-things.biz>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 07:29:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] User buffer for binary fields

issue2316
review192001
(transplanted from 434afda1cfe3cfa8df12235df1172b831c0b511b)
---
 proteus/__init__.py | 10 +++++++++-
 proteus/config.py   |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/proteus/__init__.py b/proteus/__init__.py
index e2b7e9e92c..1a8231fb6d 100644
--- a/proteus/__init__.py
+++ b/proteus/__init__.py
@@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ class CharDescriptor(FieldDescriptor):
         super(CharDescriptor, self).__set__(instance, value or '')
 
 
+class BinaryDescriptor(FieldDescriptor):
+    default = None
+
+    def __set__(self, instance, value):
+        assert isinstance(value, (basestring, buffer)) or value in (None, False)
+        super(BinaryDescriptor, self).__set__(instance, value or '')
+
+
 class IntegerDescriptor(FieldDescriptor):
     default = 0
 
@@ -295,7 +303,7 @@ class MetaModelFactory(object):
         'char': CharDescriptor,
         'text': CharDescriptor,
         'sha': CharDescriptor,
-        'binary': CharDescriptor,
+        'binary': BinaryDescriptor,
         'selection': CharDescriptor, # TODO implement its own descriptor
         'integer': IntegerDescriptor,
         'biginteger': IntegerDescriptor,
diff --git a/proteus/config.py b/proteus/config.py
index 2eccfff55c..a374c5bf43 100644
--- a/proteus/config.py
+++ b/proteus/config.py
@@ -17,10 +17,17 @@ def dump_decimal(self, value, write):
     write(str(value))
     write("</double></value>\n")
 
+def dump_buffer(self, value, write):
+    self.write = write
+    value = xmlrpclib.Binary(value)
+    value.encode(self)
+    del self.write
+
 xmlrpclib.Marshaller.dispatch[Decimal] = dump_decimal
 xmlrpclib.Marshaller.dispatch[datetime.date] = \
         lambda self, value, write: self.dump_datetime(
                 datetime.datetime.combine(value, datetime.time()), write)
+xmlrpclib.Marshaller.dispatch[buffer] = dump_buffer
 
 def _end_double(self, data):
     self.append(Decimal(data))