""" This demonstrates the creation of miniversions of a file during a transaction. The FSCTL_TXFS_CREATE_MINIVERSION control code saves any changes to a new miniversion (effectively a savepoint within a transaction). """ import win32file, win32api, win32transaction import win32con, winioctlcon import struct import os from pywin32_testutil import str2bytes # py3k-friendly helper """ Definition of buffer used with FSCTL_TXFS_CREATE_MINIVERSION: typedef struct _TXFS_CREATE_MINIVERSION_INFO{ USHORT StructureVersion; USHORT StructureLength; ULONG BaseVersion; USHORT MiniVersion;} """ buf_fmt='HHLH0L' ## buffer size must include struct padding buf_size=struct.calcsize(buf_fmt) tempdir=win32api.GetTempPath() tempfile=win32api.GetTempFileName(tempdir,'cft')[0] print("Demonstrating transactions on tempfile", tempfile) f=open(tempfile,'w') f.write('This is original file.\n') f.close() trans=win32transaction.CreateTransaction(Description='Test creating miniversions of a file') hfile=win32file.CreateFileW(tempfile, win32con.GENERIC_READ|win32con.GENERIC_WRITE, win32con.FILE_SHARE_READ|win32con.FILE_SHARE_WRITE, None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, 0 , None, Transaction=trans) win32file.WriteFile(hfile, str2bytes('This is first miniversion.\n')) buf=win32file.DeviceIoControl(hfile, winioctlcon.FSCTL_TXFS_CREATE_MINIVERSION,None,buf_size,None) struct_ver, struct_len, base_ver, ver_1=struct.unpack(buf_fmt, buf) win32file.SetFilePointer(hfile, 0, win32con.FILE_BEGIN) win32file.WriteFile(hfile, str2bytes('This is second miniversion!\n')) buf=win32file.DeviceIoControl(hfile, winioctlcon.FSCTL_TXFS_CREATE_MINIVERSION,None,buf_size,None) struct_ver, struct_len, base_ver, ver_2=struct.unpack(buf_fmt, buf) hfile.Close() ## miniversions can't be opened with write access hfile_0=win32file.CreateFileW(tempfile, win32con.GENERIC_READ, win32con.FILE_SHARE_READ|win32con.FILE_SHARE_WRITE, None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, 0 , None, Transaction=trans, MiniVersion=base_ver) print('version:',base_ver,win32file.ReadFile(hfile_0, 100)) hfile_0.Close() hfile_1=win32file.CreateFileW(tempfile, win32con.GENERIC_READ, win32con.FILE_SHARE_READ|win32con.FILE_SHARE_WRITE, None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, 0 , None, Transaction=trans, MiniVersion=ver_1) print('version:',ver_1,win32file.ReadFile(hfile_1, 100)) hfile_1.Close() hfile_2=win32file.CreateFileW(tempfile, win32con.GENERIC_READ, win32con.FILE_SHARE_READ|win32con.FILE_SHARE_WRITE, None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, 0 , None, Transaction=trans, MiniVersion=ver_2) print('version:',ver_2,win32file.ReadFile(hfile_2, 100)) hfile_2.Close() ## MiniVersions are destroyed when transaction is committed or rolled back win32transaction.CommitTransaction(trans) os.unlink(tempfile)