#17 Add support for the extended fields

[Alexey Kolyanov]

Look at the complete fields description:
http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/data_types.html

I have met the file with the fields marked with codes 'V' and '0'.

[George]

Am I right in thinking this is the cause of the error...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\dbfpy\dbf.py", line 138, in init
self.header = self.HeaderClass.fromStream(self.stream)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\dbfpy\header.py", line 128, in fromStream
_fld = fields.lookupFor(_data[11]).fromString(_data, _pos)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\dbfpy\fields.py", line 473, in lookupFor
return _fieldsRegistry[typeCode]
KeyError: '0'

[Alexey Kolyanov]

As I remember it helped me to work with this by adding 2 classes as workaround. File 'fields.py':

class DbfVarCharacterFieldDef(DbfFieldDef):
    """Definition of the character field."""

    typeCode = "V"
    defaultValue = ""

    def decodeValue(self, value):
        """Return string object.

        Return value is a ``value`` argument with stripped right spaces.

        """
        return value  # .rstrip(" ")

    def encodeValue(self, value):
        """Return raw data string encoded from a ``value``."""
        return str(value)[:self.length].ljust(self.length)

class DbfCharacterNameFieldDef(DbfFieldDef):
    """Definition of the character field."""

    typeCode = "0"
    defaultValue = ""

    def decodeValue(self, value):
        """Return string object.

        Return value is a ``value`` argument with stripped right spaces.

        """
        return value.rstrip(" ")

    def encodeValue(self, value):
        """Return raw data string encoded from a ``value``."""
        return str(value)[:self.length].ljust(self.length)

[Aleksandr Smyshliaev]

Please, can you provide an example data file?

[Alexey Kolyanov]

I cannot, sorry. It was the file of my client.