Source code for google.appengine.api.blobstore.blob_storage

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"""Definition of BlobStorage base class."""


[docs]class BlobStorage(object):
  """Base class for defining how blobs are stored.

  This base class merely defines an interface that all stub blob-storage
  mechanisms must implement.
  """

[docs]  def StoreBlob(self, blob_key, blob_stream):
    """Store blob stream.

    Implement this method to persist blob data.

    Args:
      blob_key: Blob key of blob to store.
      blob_stream: Stream or stream-like object that will generate blob content.
    """
    raise NotImplementedError('Storage class must override StoreBlob method.')

[docs]  def OpenBlob(self, blob_key):
    """Open blob for streaming.

    Args:
      blob_key: Blob-key of existing blob to open for reading.

    Returns:
      Open file stream for reading blob. Caller is responsible for closing file.
    """
    raise NotImplementedError('Storage class must override OpenBlob method.')

[docs]  def DeleteBlob(self, blob_key):
    """Delete blob data from storage.

    Args:
      blob_key: Blob-key of existing blob to delete.
    """
    raise NotImplementedError('Storage class must override DeleteBlob method.')