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  9. Oct 20, 2014
    • Vermaat's avatar
      Use unicode strings · 2a4dc3c1
      Vermaat authored 
      Don't fix what ain't broken. Unfortunately, string handling in Mutalyzer
really is broken. So we fix it.

Internally, all strings should be represented by unicode strings as much as
possible. The main exception are large reference sequence strings. These can
often better be BioPython sequence objects, since that is how we usually get
them in the first place.

These changes will hopefully make Mutalyzer more reliable in working with
incoming data. As a bonus, they're a first (small) step towards Python 3
compatibility [1].

Our strategy is as follows:

1. We use `from __future__ import unicode_literals` at the top of every file.
2. All incoming strings are decoded to unicode (if necessary) as soon as
   possible.
3. Outgoing strings are encoded to UTF8 (if necessary) as late as possible.
4. BioPython sequence objects can be based on byte strings as well as unicode
   strings.
5. In the database, everything is UTF8.
6. We worry about uploaded and downloaded reference files and batch jobs in a
   later commit.

Point 1 will ensure that all string literals in our source code will be
unicode strings [2].

As for point 4, sometimes this may even change under our eyes (e.g., calling
`.reverse_complement()` will change it to a byte string). We don't care as
long as they're BioPython objects, only when we get the sequence out we must
have it as unicode string. Their contents are always in the ASCII range
anyway.

Although `Bio.Seq.reverse_complement` works fine on Python byte strings (and
we used to rely on that), it crashes on a Python unicode string. So we take
care to only use it on BioPython sequence objects and wrote our own reverse
complement function for unicode strings (`mutalyzer.util.reverse_complement`).

As for point 5, SQLAlchemy already does a very good job at presenting decoding
from and encoding to UTF8 for us.

The Spyne documentation has the following to say about their `String` and
`Unicode` types [3]:

> There are two string types in Spyne: `spyne.model.primitive.Unicode` and
> `spyne.model.primitive.String` whose native types are `unicode` and `str`
> respectively.
>
> Unlike the Python `str`, the Spyne `String` is not for arbitrary byte
> streams. You should not use it unless you are absolutely, positively sure
> that you need to deal with text data with an unknown encoding. In all other
> cases, you should just use the `Unicode` type. They actually look the same
> from outside, this distinction is made just to properly deal with the quirks
> surrounding Python-2's `unicode` type.
>
> Remember that you have the `ByteArray` and `File` types at your disposal
> when you need to deal with arbitrary byte streams.
>
> The `String` type will be just an alias for `Unicode` once Spyne gets ported
> to Python 3. It might even be deprecated and removed in the future, so make
> sure you are using either `Unicode` or `ByteArray` in your interface
> definitions.

So let's not ignore that and never use `String` anymore in our webservice
interface.

For the command line interface it's a bit more complicated, since there seems
to be no reliable way to get the encoding of command line arguments. We use
`sys.stdin.encoding` as a best guess.

For us to interpret a sequence of bytes as text, it's key to be aware of their
encoding. Once decoded, a text string can be safely used without having to
worry about bytes. Without unicode we're nothing, and nothing will help
us. Maybe we're lying, then you better not stay. But we could be safer, just
for one day. Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh, just for one day.

[1] https://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/pyporting.html
[2] http://python-future.org/unicode_literals.html
[3] http://spyne.io/docs/2.10/manual/03_types.html#strings
      2a4dc3c1
  11. Sep 26, 2014
  13. Sep 19, 2014
  15. Aug 27, 2014
  17. Jan 22, 2014
    • Vermaat's avatar
      Use fixtures in the unit tests · c49d49f0
      Vermaat authored 
      This is The Good Stuff. The entire test suite can now be run without
having to setup a database, running the batch checker, any of the web
services or the website. It even passes without an internet connection.
In, like, 30 seconds! Awesome!

This means tests don't randomly fail after some reference sequence
changes on the NCBI server and it doesn't take an entire configured
server with mapping database setup to run the tests. Those are things
of the past! No more frustrations, Mutalyzer is testable!

Going down now...

The mountain screamed three times today
I guess it thought it'd like to play
How much does one have to pay
To fry a peak and melt away
Launching titan's breath on mine
The sweating measure lands on time

And the old man, down by the river
Well he walks up and he walks on down
To the spaceship that's parked at your doorstep
And it's waiting to take you away now

Goin' down now
Goin' down now

Looking for the rate that crowed
He's hooked up down in Mexico
Slap my nerve now give me more
It's my disaster friend, not yours

And the old man, down by the river
Well he walks up and he walks on down
To the spaceship that's parked at your doorstep
And it's waiting to take you away now

And the last one, it's down by the river
Where he gets up and he walks on down
To the spaceship that's parked at your doorstep
And it's waiting to take you away now

It's down by the river, it's always this way now
It's down by the river, it's always this way now

Going down now
Going down now
now, now, now

down, down, down
      c49d49f0
  19. Jan 10, 2014
    • Vermaat's avatar
      Remove obsolete Db module · 667f39a6
      Vermaat authored 
      Now that we ported the database to SQLAlchemy, we remove the obsolete Db
module and all references to it.
      667f39a6
  21. Jan 04, 2014
  23. Dec 23, 2013
    • Vermaat's avatar
      Fix unit tests with SQLAlchemy · 94df7c07
      Vermaat authored 
      This involves making the SQLAlchemy session reconfigurable at run-time,
which is done automatically on updating the Mutalyzer configuration using
configuration update callbacks.
      94df7c07
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