bpo-37141: support multiple separators in Stream.readuntil

Allow Stream.readuntil to take an iterable of separators and match any of them. The earliest match endpoint wins (which ensures that results are dependent on the chunking) and on ties shortest separator wins (which only matters if the user has supplied a redundant set like [b'\r\n', b'\n'] and the limit is reached). It's also implemented for the deprecated StreamReader, just because the code for the two implementations was the same except for one line and it seemed easier to keep them in sync than leaving two different versions to maintain.
python · gvanrossum · Apr 8, 2024 · Sep 26, 2019 · Apr 7, 2024 · Apr 7, 2024
commit faa279f0e86125f9c6cd10a3d39ac372920c54b6
@@ -209,8 +209,19 @@ StreamReader
       buffer is reset.  The :attr:`IncompleteReadError.partial` attribute
       may contain a portion of the separator.
 
+      The *separator* may also be an :term:`iterable` of separators. In this
+      case the return value will be the shortest possible that has any
+      separator as the suffix. For the purposes of :exc:`LimitOverrunError`,
+      the shortest possible separator is considered to be the one that
+      matched.
+
       .. versionadded:: 3.5.2
 
+      .. versionchanged:: 3.10
+
+         The *separator* parameter may now be an :term:`iterable` of
+         separators.
+
    .. method:: at_eof()
 
       Return ``True`` if the buffer is empty and :meth:`feed_eof`

@@ -568,17 +568,31 @@ async def readuntil(self, separator=b'\n'):
         If the data cannot be read because of over limit, a
         LimitOverrunError exception  will be raised, and the data
         will be left in the internal buffer, so it can be read again.
+
+        The ``separator`` may also be an iterable of separators. In this
+        case the return value will be the shortest possible that has any
+        separator as the suffix. For the purposes of LimitOverrunError,
+        the shortest possible separator is considered to be the one that
+        matched.
         """
-        seplen = len(separator)
-        if seplen == 0:
+        if isinstance(separator, bytes):
+            separator = [separator]
+        else:
+            # Makes sure shortest matches wins, and supports arbitrary iterables
+            separator = sorted(separator, key=len)
+        if not separator:
+            raise ValueError('Separator should contain at least one element')
+        min_seplen = len(separator[0])
+        max_seplen = len(separator[-1])
+        if min_seplen == 0:
             raise ValueError('Separator should be at least one-byte string')
 
         if self._exception is not None:
             raise self._exception
 
         # Consume whole buffer except last bytes, which length is
-        # one less than seplen. Let's check corner cases with
-        # separator='SEPARATOR':
+        # one less than max_seplen. Let's check corner cases with
+        # separator[-1]='SEPARATOR':
         # * we have received almost complete separator (without last
         #   byte). i.e buffer='some textSEPARATO'. In this case we
         #   can safely consume len(separator) - 1 bytes.
@@ -594,26 +608,35 @@ async def readuntil(self, separator=b'\n'):
         #   messages :)
 
         # `offset` is the number of bytes from the beginning of the buffer
-        # where there is no occurrence of `separator`.
+        # where there is no occurrence of any `separator`.
         offset = 0
 
-        # Loop until we find `separator` in the buffer, exceed the buffer size,
+        # Loop until we find a `separator` in the buffer, exceed the buffer size,
         # or an EOF has happened.
         while True:
             buflen = len(self._buffer)
 
-            # Check if we now have enough data in the buffer for `separator` to
-            # fit.
-            if buflen - offset >= seplen:
-                isep = self._buffer.find(separator, offset)
-
-                if isep != -1:
-                    # `separator` is in the buffer. `isep` will be used later
-                    # to retrieve the data.
+            # Check if we now have enough data in the buffer for shortest
+            # separator to fit.
+            if buflen - offset >= min_seplen:
+                match_start = None
+                match_end = None
+                for sep in separator:
+                    isep = self._buffer.find(sep, offset)
+
+                    if isep != -1:
+                        # `separator` is in the buffer. `match_start` and
+                        # `match_end` will be used later to retrieve the
+                        # data.
+                        end = isep + len(sep)
+                        if match_end is None or end < match_end:
+                            match_end = end
+                            match_start = isep
+                if match_end is not None:
                     break
 
                 # see upper comment for explanation.
-                offset = buflen + 1 - seplen
+                offset = max(0, buflen + 1 - max_seplen)
                 if offset > self._limit:
                     raise exceptions.LimitOverrunError(
                         'Separator is not found, and chunk exceed the limit',
@@ -622,7 +645,7 @@ async def readuntil(self, separator=b'\n'):
             # Complete message (with full separator) may be present in buffer
             # even when EOF flag is set. This may happen when the last chunk
             # adds data which makes separator be found. That's why we check for
-            # EOF *ater* inspecting the buffer.
+            # EOF *after* inspecting the buffer.
             if self._eof:
                 chunk = bytes(self._buffer)
                 self._buffer.clear()
@@ -631,12 +654,12 @@ async def readuntil(self, separator=b'\n'):
             # _wait_for_data() will resume reading if stream was paused.
             await self._wait_for_data('readuntil')
 
-        if isep > self._limit:
+        if match_start > self._limit:
             raise exceptions.LimitOverrunError(
-                'Separator is found, but chunk is longer than limit', isep)
+                'Separator is found, but chunk is longer than limit', match_start)
 
-        chunk = self._buffer[:isep + seplen]
-        del self._buffer[:isep + seplen]
+        chunk = self._buffer[:match_end]
+        del self._buffer[:match_end]
         self._maybe_resume_transport()
         return bytes(chunk)
 

@@ -396,6 +396,10 @@ def test_readuntil_separator(self):
         stream = asyncio.StreamReader(loop=self.loop)
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'Separator should be'):
             self.loop.run_until_complete(stream.readuntil(separator=b''))
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'Separator should be'):
+            self.loop.run_until_complete(stream.readuntil(separator=[b'']))
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'Separator should contain'):
+            self.loop.run_until_complete(stream.readuntil(separator=[]))
 
     def test_readuntil_multi_chunks(self):
         stream = asyncio.StreamReader(loop=self.loop)
@@ -477,6 +481,48 @@ def test_readuntil_limit_found_sep(self):
 
         self.assertEqual(b'some dataAAA', stream._buffer)
 
+    def test_readuntil_multi_separator(self):
+        stream = asyncio.StreamReader(loop=self.loop)
+
+        # Simple case
+        stream.feed_data(b'line 1\nline 2\r')
+        data = self.loop.run_until_complete(stream.readuntil([b'\r', b'\n']))
+        self.assertEqual(b'line 1\n', data)
+        data = self.loop.run_until_complete(stream.readuntil([b'\r', b'\n']))
+        self.assertEqual(b'line 2\r', data)
+        self.assertEqual(b'', stream._buffer)
+
+        # First end position matches, even if that's a longer match
+        stream.feed_data(b'ABCDEFG')
+        data = self.loop.run_until_complete(stream.readuntil([b'DEF', b'BCDE']))
+        self.assertEqual(b'ABCDE', data)
+        self.assertEqual(b'FG', stream._buffer)
+
+    def test_readuntil_multi_separator_limit(self):
+        stream = asyncio.StreamReader(loop=self.loop, limit=3)
+        stream.feed_data(b'some dataA')
+
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(asyncio.LimitOverrunError,
+                                    'is found') as cm:
+            self.loop.run_until_complete(stream.readuntil([b'A', b'ome dataA']))
+
+        self.assertEqual(b'some dataA', stream._buffer)
+
+    def test_readuntil_multi_separator_negative_offset(self):
+        # If the buffer is big enough for the smallest separator (but does
+        # not contain it) but too small for the largest, `offset` must not
+        # become negative.
+        stream = asyncio.StreamReader(loop=self.loop)
+        stream.feed_data(b'data')
+
+        readuntil_task = self.loop.create_task(stream.readuntil([b'A', b'long sep']))
+        self.loop.call_soon(stream.feed_data, b'Z')
+        self.loop.call_soon(stream.feed_data, b'Aaaa')
+
+        data = self.loop.run_until_complete(readuntil_task)
+        self.assertEqual(b'dataZA', data)
+        self.assertEqual(b'aaa', stream._buffer)
+
     def test_readexactly_zero_or_less(self):
         # Read exact number of bytes (zero or less).
         stream = asyncio.StreamReader(loop=self.loop)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-26-17-52-52.bpo-37141.onYY2-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-26-17-52-52.bpo-37141.onYY2-.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Accept an iterable of separators in :meth:`asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil`, stopping
+when one of them is encountered.
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		@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
		Accept an iterable of separators in :meth:`asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil`, stopping
		when one of them is encountered.