From recovery.js to recoveryjsonlz4

[Cecil Westerhof]

breamoreboy at gmail.com writes:

> On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 1:28:16 PM UTC, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> I have a script to get the number of windows and tabs that firefox
>> uses. It always used a file recovery.js, but it changed to
>> recovery.jsonlz4.
>> 
>> Looking at the extension I would think it is an lz4 compressed file.
>> But when I use:
>>     import lz4
>> 
>> I see that it is deprecated. How should I work with this file?
>> 
>
> I can't see anything here
> http://python-lz4.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lz4.html to indicate that the
> package is deprecated, although the lz4version function has been since
> version 0.14. Further the latest 0.21.6 was released just yesterday,
> 04/02/2018, so I'm guessing that you've just misread something.

Well, when using 'import lz4' and giving tab in ipython, you get:
    deprecated
    library_version_number
    library_version_string
    lz4version
    VERSION
    version

Looking at:
    http://python-lz4.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lz4.frame.html

I tried to replace:
    loads(open(recover, 'rb').read().decode('utf-8'))

With:
    import lz4.frame
    .
    .
    .
    lz4.frame.open(recover, 'rb').read().decode('utf-8')

But this gives:
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
    <ipython-input-23-8ab2fb8ca60e> in <module>()
    ----> 1 dummy = lz4.frame.open(recover, 'rb').read().decode('utf-8')

    /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/lz4/frame/__init__.py in read(self, size)
        507         """
        508         self._check_can_read()
    --> 509         return self._buffer.read(size)
        510 
        511     def read1(self, size=-1):

    /usr/lib/python3.5/_compression.py in read(self, size)
        101                 else:
        102                     rawblock = b""
    --> 103                 data = self._decompressor.decompress(rawblock, size)
        104             if data:
        105                 break

    /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/lz4/frame/__init__.py in decompress(self, data, max_length)
        295             data,
        296             max_length=max_length,
    --> 297             return_bytearray=self._return_bytearray,
        298             )
        299 

    RuntimeError: LZ4F_decompress failed with code: ERROR_frameType_unknown

What works is:
    dummy = lz4.frame.open(recover, 'rb')

And this gives a:
    <lz4.frame.LZ4FrameFile at 0x7f4b644c2a58>

But when I then do:
    input = dummy.read()

I get (as above):
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
    <ipython-input-26-d3f69ff5f4cf> in <module>()
    ----> 1 input = dummy.read()

    /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/lz4/frame/__init__.py in read(self, size)
        507         """
        508         self._check_can_read()
    --> 509         return self._buffer.read(size)
        510 
        511     def read1(self, size=-1):

    /usr/lib/python3.5/_compression.py in read(self, size)
        101                 else:
        102                     rawblock = b""
    --> 103                 data = self._decompressor.decompress(rawblock, size)
        104             if data:
        105                 break

    /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/lz4/frame/__init__.py in decompress(self, data, max_length)
        295             data,
        296             max_length=max_length,
    --> 297             return_bytearray=self._return_bytearray,
        298             )
        299 

    RuntimeError: LZ4F_decompress failed with code: ERROR_frameType_unknown

So how do I circumvent this error to read the file?

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof