remote.py

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import urllib2
import tempfile

from ost.io import LoadPDB, LoadMMCIF

class RemoteRepository:
  """
  A remote repository represents a structural database accessible through the 
  internet, e.g. the PDB or SWISS-MODEL template library.
  """
  def __init__(self, name, url_pattern, type, id_transform='upper'):
    self.name = name
    self.url_pattern = url_pattern
    self.type = type
    if type not in ('cif', 'pdb'):
      raise ValueError('only cif and pdb types are supported')
    self.id_transform = id_transform

  def URLForID(self, id):
    if self.id_transform == 'upper':
      id = id.upper()
    if self.id_transform == 'lower':
      id = id.lower()
    return self.url_pattern.replace('$ID', id)

  def Get(self, id):
    remote_url = self.URLForID(id)
    tmp_file_suffix = '.%s' % self.type
    if remote_url.endswith('.gz'):
      tmp_file_suffix+='.gz'

    try:
      connection = urllib2.urlopen(remote_url)
      if hasattr(connection, 'code'):
        status = connection.code
      else:
        status = connection.getcode()
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
      status = e.code
    if status != 200:
      raise IOError('Could not load %s from %s (status code %d, url %s)' \
                    % (id, self.name, status, remote_url))
    tmp_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=tmp_file_suffix)
    contents = ''.join(connection)
    tmp_file.write(contents)
    tmp_file.flush()
    return tmp_file

  def Load(self, id):
    tmp_file = self.Get(id)
    if self.type == 'pdb':
      return LoadPDB(tmp_file.name)
    if self.type == 'cif':
      return LoadMMCIF(tmp_file.name)

REMOTE_REPOSITORIES = {
    'pdb' : RemoteRepository('pdb.org (PDB)', 'http://www.pdb.org/pdb/files/$ID.pdb.gz',
                   type='pdb', id_transform='upper'),
    'smtl' : RemoteRepository('SMTL', 'http://swissmodel.expasy.org/templates/$ID.pdb',
                   type='pdb', id_transform='lower'),
    'cif' : RemoteRepository('pdb.org (mmCIF)', 'http://www.pdb.org/pdb/files/$ID.cif.gz',
                   type='cif', id_transform='lower'),
    'pdb_redo' : RemoteRepository('pdbredo', 'http://pdb-redo.eu/db/$ID/$ID_besttls.pdb.gz',
                   type='pdb', id_transform='lower'),
}

def RemoteGet(id, from_repo='pdb'):
  remote_repo = REMOTE_REPOSITORIES.get(from_repo, None) 
  if not remote_repo:
    raise ValueError('%s is not a valid repository' % from_repo)
  return remote_repo.Get(id)

def RemoteLoad(id, from_repo='pdb'):
  remote_repo = REMOTE_REPOSITORIES.get(from_repo, None) 
  if not remote_repo:
    raise ValueError('%s is not a valid repository' % from_repo)
  return remote_repo.Load(id)