pycapnp/README.md
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#capnpc-python-cpp
## Downloading
For now, this code is only on github although I plan to put it up on PyPi at somepoint.
You can clone the repo like so:
git clone https://github.com/jparyani/capnpc-python-cpp.git
## Requirements
First you need a system-wide installation of the Capnproto C++ library >= 0.2. All you need to do is follow the official [installation docs](http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/install.html)].
Also on my ubuntu 12.10 box, I had to run `sudo ldconfig` after installation to make sure the libcapnp library was picked up by the linker.
You also need a working version of the latest [Cython](http://cython.org/) and the latest version of setuptools. This is easily done with:
pip install -U cython setuptools
## Building and installation
`cd` into the repo directory and run `python setup.py install` or `pip install .`
## Documentation/Example
At the moment, there is no documenation, but the library is almost a 1:1 clone of the [Capnproto C++ Library](http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/cxx.html)
The examples directory has one example that shows off the capabilities quite nicely. Here it is, reproduced:
```python
import capnp
addressbook = capnp.load('addressbook.capnp')
def writeAddressBook(fd):
message = capnp.MallocMessageBuilder()
addressBook = message.initRoot(addressbook.AddressBook)
people = addressBook.initPeople(2)
alice = people[0]
alice.id = 123
alice.name = 'Alice'
alice.email = 'alice@example.com'
alicePhones = alice.initPhones(1)
alicePhones[0].number = "555-1212"
alicePhones[0].type = 'mobile'
alice.employment.school = "MIT"
bob = people[1]
bob.id = 456
bob.name = 'Bob'
bob.email = 'bob@example.com'
bobPhones = bob.initPhones(2)
bobPhones[0].number = "555-4567"
bobPhones[0].type = 'home'
bobPhones[1].number = "555-7654"
bobPhones[1].type = 'work'
bob.employment.unemployed = None
capnp.writePackedMessageToFd(fd, message)
f = open('example', 'w')
writeAddressBook(f.fileno())
def printAddressBook(fd):
message = capnp.PackedFdMessageReader(f.fileno())
addressBook = message.getRoot(addressbook.AddressBook)
for person in addressBook.people:
print person.name, ':', person.email
for phone in person.phones:
print phone.type, ':', phone.number
which = person.employment.which()
print which
if which == 'unemployed':
print('unemployed')
elif which == 'employer':
print('employer:', person.employment.employer)
elif which == 'school':
print('student at:', person.employment.school)
elif which == 'selfEmployed':
print('self employed')
print
f = open('example', 'r')
printAddressBook(f.fileno())
```