Source code for null

# Copyright 2011-2014 Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, Departments of
# Medical Informatics and Radiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

"""
This module contains the Null plugin for fastr
"""

from fastr.core.ioplugin import IOPlugin


class Null(IOPlugin):
    """
    The Null plugin is create to handle ``null://`` type or URLs. These URLs
    are indicating the sink should not do anything. The data is not written to
    anywhere. Besides the scheme, the rest of the URL is ignored.
    """
    scheme = 'null'

[docs] def __init__(self): # initialize the instance and register the scheme super(Null, self).__init__()
[docs] def put_url(self, inpath, outurl): """ Put the files to the external data store. :param inpath: path of the local data :param outurl: url to where to store the data, starts with ``file://`` """ return True
[docs] def put_value(self, value, outurl): """ Put the value in the external data store. :param value: value to store :param outurl: url to where to store the data, starts with ``file://`` """ return True