vsifile
Documentation: https://vincentsarago.github.io/vsifile/
Source Code: https://github.com/vincentsarago/vsifile
Description
Experiment using Rasterio/GDAL Python file opener VSI plugin https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio/pull/2898/files
Future version of rasterio will accept an custom dataset opener:
opener : callable, optional
A custom dataset opener which can serve GDAL's virtual
filesystem machinery via Python file-like objects. The
underlying file-like object is obtained by calling *opener* with
(*fp*, *mode*) or (*fp*, *mode* + "b") depending on the format
driver's native mode. *opener* must return a Python file-like
object that provides read, seek, tell, and close methods.
Install
You can install vsifile using pip
python -m pip install -U pip
python -m pip install -U vsifile
or install from source:
git clone https://github.com/vincentsarago/vsifile.git
cd vsifile
python -m pip install -U pip
python -m pip install -e .
Usage
from vsifile import VSIFile, FileReader
src_path = "tests/fixture.cog.tif"
with VSIFile(src_path, "rb") as f:
assert isinstance(f, FileReader)
assert hash(f)
assert "FileReader" in str(f)
assert not f.closed
assert f.header_cache
assert len(f.header) == 32768
assert f.tell() == 0
assert f.seekable
b = f.read(100)
assert len(b) == 100
assert f.header[0:100] == b
assert f.tell() == 100
_ = f.seek(0)
assert f.tell() == 0
_ = f.seek(40000)
assert f.tell() == 40000
b = f.read(100)
assert f.tell() == 40100
# fetch the same block (should be from LRU cache)
_ = f.seek(40000)
b_cache = f.read(100)
assert f.tell() == 40100
assert b_cache == b
b = f.get_byte_ranges([100, 200], [10, 20])
assert len(b) == 2
assert len(b[0]) == 10
assert len(b[1]) == 20
assert f.tell() == 220
With Rasterio
import rasterio
from vsifile.rasterio import opener
with rasterio.open("tests/fixtures/cog.tif", opener=opener) as src:
...
Caches Configuration
Header Cache
vsifile uses DiskCache to create a persistent File Header cache (TTL: Time To Live cache).
By default the cache will be cleaned up when closing the file handle, you can change this behaviour by setting VSIFILE_CACHE_DIRECTORY="{your temp directory}" environment variable.
Settings:
- VSIFILE_CACHE_DIRECTORY: Diskcache directory (defaults to
None) - VSIFILE_CACHE_HEADERS_TTL: Time to Live of each object in the cache, in seconds (defaults to
300) - VSIFILE_CACHE_HEADERS_MAXSIZE: Maximum size of the cache, in Bytes (defaults to
5120000000)
Block Cache
vsifile has a second layer of cache for the blocks (non-header read) based on cachetools.
Settings:
- VSIFILE_CACHE_BLOCKS_TTL: Time to Live of each object in the cache, in seconds (defaults to
300) - VSIFILE_CACHE_BLOCKS_MAXSIZE: Maximum size of the cache, in number of items (defaults to
512)
Note: you can disable cache by setting: VSIFILE_CACHE_DISABLE=TRUE
Other Configurations
- VSIFILE_INGESTED_BYTES_AT_OPEN: Bytes ingested when opening a file (header) (defaults to
32768)
Contribution & Development
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Changes
See CHANGES.md.
License
See LICENSE
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