varia.website/plugins/gzip_cache/gzip_cache.py

'''
Copyright (c) 2012 Matt Layman

Gzip cache
----------

A plugin to create .gz cache files for optimization.
'''

import logging
import os
import zlib

from pelican import signals

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# A list of file types to exclude from possible compression
EXCLUDE_TYPES = [
    # Compressed types
    '.bz2',
    '.gz',

    # Audio types
    '.aac',
    '.flac',
    '.mp3',
    '.wma',

    # Image types
    '.gif',
    '.jpg',
    '.jpeg',
    '.png',

    # Video types
    '.avi',
    '.mov',
    '.mp4',
    '.webm',

    # Internally-compressed fonts. gzip can often shave ~50 more bytes off,
    # but it's not worth it.
    '.woff',
    '.woff2',
]

COMPRESSION_LEVEL = 9 # Best Compression

""" According to zlib manual: 'Add 16 to
windowBits to write a simple gzip header and trailer around the
compressed data instead of a zlib wrapper. The gzip header will
have no file name, no extra data, no comment, no modification
time (set to zero), no header crc, and the operating system
will be set to 255 (unknown)'
"""
WBITS = zlib.MAX_WBITS | 16


def create_gzip_cache(pelican):
    '''Create a gzip cache file for every file that a webserver would
    reasonably want to cache (e.g., text type files).

    :param pelican: The Pelican instance
    '''
    for dirpath, _, filenames in os.walk(pelican.settings['OUTPUT_PATH']):
        for name in filenames:
            if should_compress(name):
                filepath = os.path.join(dirpath, name)
                create_gzip_file(filepath, should_overwrite(pelican.settings))


def should_compress(filename):
    '''Check if the filename is a type of file that should be compressed.

    :param filename: A file name to check against
    '''
    for extension in EXCLUDE_TYPES:
        if filename.endswith(extension):
            return False

    return True

def should_overwrite(settings):
    '''Check if the gzipped files should overwrite the originals.

    :param settings: The pelican instance settings
    '''
    return settings.get('GZIP_CACHE_OVERWRITE', False)

def create_gzip_file(filepath, overwrite):
    '''Create a gzipped file in the same directory with a filepath.gz name.

    :param filepath: A file to compress
    :param overwrite: Whether the original file should be overwritten
    '''
    compressed_path = filepath + '.gz'

    with open(filepath, 'rb') as uncompressed:
        gzip_compress_obj = zlib.compressobj(COMPRESSION_LEVEL,
                                                zlib.DEFLATED, WBITS)

        uncompressed_data = uncompressed.read()
        gzipped_data = gzip_compress_obj.compress(uncompressed_data)
        gzipped_data += gzip_compress_obj.flush()

        if len(gzipped_data) >= len(uncompressed_data):
            logger.debug('No improvement: %s' % filepath)
            return

        with open(compressed_path, 'wb') as compressed:
            logger.debug('Compressing: %s' % filepath)
            try:
                compressed.write(gzipped_data)
            except Exception as ex:
                logger.critical('Gzip compression failed: %s' % ex)

        if overwrite:
            logger.debug('Overwriting: %s with %s' % (filepath, compressed_path))
            os.remove(filepath)
            os.rename(compressed_path, filepath)

def register():
    signals.finalized.connect(create_gzip_cache)