Pickable iRODS session

README.md

Since iRODS uses thread locks I tried overriding the original session class to make it possible.

Test it with:

import pickle
import base64

original_session = iRODSPickleSession(...)

# serialize
serialized_session = base64.encodestring(pickle.dumps(original_session))
# recover
usable_session = pickle.loads(base64.decodestring(serialized_session))

picksess.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Allow to manipulate irods session as a string,
to be saved inside a database.
"""

from irods.pool import Pool
from irods.session import iRODSSession



class iRODSPickleSession(iRODSSession):

    def __getstate__(self):
        attrs = {}
        for attr in self.__dict__:
            obj = getattr(self, attr)
            if attr == 'pool':
                attrs['account'] = obj.account
                attrs['timeout'] = obj.timeout
            else:
                attrs[attr] = obj

        return attrs

    def __setstate__(self, state):

        for name, value in state.items():
            # print(name, value)
            setattr(self, name, value)

        self.pool = Pool(state.get('account'), state.get('timeout'))