I'm working in Python with MongoDB trying to save an array of floats tightly.
I can Create and store correctly *
but I CANNOT RETRIEVE THE DATA IN A USABLE FORMAT.
>>> import random, array, pymongo
>>> from bson.binary import Binary as BsonBinary
>>> con = pymongo.Connection('localhost', 27017)
>>> mm = con['testDatabase']
>>> vals = [random.random() *100 for x in range(1, 5)]
>>> vals
[2.9962593, 64.5582810776, 32.3781311717, 82.0606953423]
>>> varray = array.array('f', vals)
>>> varray
array('f', [2.9962593, 64.5582810776, 32.3781311717, 82.0606953423])
>>> vstring = varray.tostring()
>>> vstring
'\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B'
>>> vbson = BsonBinary(vstring, 5)
>>> vbson
Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)
>>> doc1 = { 'something': 1 , 'else' : vbson}
>>> doc1
{'something': 1, 'else': Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)}
>>> mm.test1.insert(doc1)
ObjectID('530f7af1d809d80d3db1f635')
>>> gotdoc = mm.test1.find_one()
>>> gotdoc
{u'_id': ObjectId('530f7af1d809d80d3db1f635'), u'something': 3, u'else': Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)}
>>> gotfield = gotdoc['else']
>>> gotfield
Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)
>>> from bson import BSON
>>> BSON.decode(gotfield)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unbound method decode() must be called with BSON instance as first argument (got Binary instance instead)
>>> gotfield.decode()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb7 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
Once I get my Python string back, I can get my array of random floats back. But how?
Let's go through the errors:
The first error appears simply because you need an actual BSON object. Note, that you have never encoded any data - creating bson.binary.Binary
object does not mean invoking BSON.encode()
.
And that is where PyMongo cheats you a bit. The bson.binary.Binary
is a runtime-patched str
or bytes
instance (see source). That is why you get the second error: what you call is actually str.decode()
, not BSON.decode()
. So, gotfield
contains the random float data you've stored initially, but the object itself has some different methods (e.g. repr()
) bound to it.
I'm coming~ I just find a way. Hope this may help you somehow.
from cStringIO import StringIO
from PIL import Image
save image:
content = StringIO(f.read())
c = dict(
content=bson.binary.Binary(content.getvalue()),
)
# insert dict into my database, sha1 is primary key
image_data[sha1] = c
retrieve image:
f = image_data[sha1]
image = Image.open(StringIO(f['content']))
----EDIT----
If you want to return an image from web servers.Do like this:
f = image_data[sha1]
# f['mime'] is the type of image, for example 'png'.
resp = Response(f['content'], mimetype='image/' + f['mime'])
return resp
Use array.fromstring
for the final decoding stage. I can get to the same spot you're at like so:
>>> from bson import Binary
>>> import array
>>> gotstring = Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)
And finally:
>>> a = array.array('f')
>>> a.fromstring(gotstring)
>>> a
array('f', [2.9962594509124756, 64.55828094482422, 32.37813186645508, 82.0606918334961])
You need to encode the array before storing it, and should not use the array.tostring. Please have a look at the documentation here.
from bson import BSON
bson_string = BSON.encode({"hello": "world"})
>>> bson_string
'\x16\x00\x00\x00\x02hello\x00\x06\x00\x00\x00world\x00\x00'
>>> bson_string.decode()
{u'hello': u'world'}
BSON.decode(gotfield)
it has a TypeError problem,and you should write it like that below
BSON.decode(bson.BSON(gotfield))