Allow any buffer type to written to BufferedFile

Fixes #967

Also adds test coverage for writing various types to
BufferedFile which required some small changes to the test
LoopbackFile subclass.

Change against the 1.17 branch.

2 files changed, 52 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/paramiko/file.py b/paramiko/file.py
index 5b57dfd6..bdaa7ed8 100644
--- a/paramiko/file.py
+++ b/paramiko/file.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 # 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA.
 from paramiko.common import linefeed_byte_value, crlf, cr_byte, linefeed_byte, \
     cr_byte_value
-from paramiko.py3compat import BytesIO, PY2, u, b, bytes_types
+from paramiko.py3compat import BytesIO, PY2, u, bytes_types, text_type
 
 from paramiko.util import ClosingContextManager
 
@@ -372,7 +372,10 @@ class BufferedFile (ClosingContextManager):
 
         :param str/bytes data: data to write
         """
-        data = b(data)
+        if isinstance(data, text_type):
+            # GZ 2017-05-25: Accepting text on a binary stream unconditionally
+            # cooercing to utf-8 seems questionable, but compatibility reasons?
+            data = data.encode('utf-8')
         if self._closed:
             raise IOError('File is closed')
         if not (self._flags & self.FLAG_WRITE):
diff --git a/tests/test_file.py b/tests/test_file.py
index 7fab6985..b33ecd51 100755
--- a/tests/test_file.py
+++ b/tests/test_file.py
@@ -21,10 +21,14 @@ Some unit tests for the BufferedFile abstraction.
 """
 
 import unittest
-from paramiko.file import BufferedFile
-from paramiko.common import linefeed_byte, crlf, cr_byte
 import sys
 
+from paramiko.common import linefeed_byte, crlf, cr_byte
+from paramiko.file import BufferedFile
+from paramiko.py3compat import BytesIO
+
+from tests import skipUnlessBuiltin
+
 
 class LoopbackFile (BufferedFile):
     """
@@ -33,19 +37,16 @@ class LoopbackFile (BufferedFile):
     def __init__(self, mode='r', bufsize=-1):
         BufferedFile.__init__(self)
         self._set_mode(mode, bufsize)
-        self.buffer = bytes()
+        self.buffer = BytesIO()
+        self.offset = 0
 
     def _read(self, size):
-        if len(self.buffer) == 0:
-            return None
-        if size > len(self.buffer):
-            size = len(self.buffer)
-        data = self.buffer[:size]
-        self.buffer = self.buffer[size:]
+        data = self.buffer.getvalue()[self.offset:self.offset+size]
+        self.offset += len(data)
         return data
 
     def _write(self, data):
-        self.buffer += data
+        self.buffer.write(data)
         return len(data)
 
 
@@ -187,6 +188,42 @@ class BufferedFileTest (unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(data, b'hello')
         f.close()
 
+    def test_write_bad_type(self):
+        with LoopbackFile('wb') as f:
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, f.write, object())
+
+    def test_write_unicode_as_binary(self):
+        text = u"\xa7 why is writing text to a binary file allowed?\n"
+        with LoopbackFile('rb+') as f:
+            f.write(text)
+            self.assertEqual(f.read(), text.encode("utf-8"))
+
+    @skipUnlessBuiltin('memoryview')
+    def test_write_bytearray(self):
+        with LoopbackFile('rb+') as f:
+            f.write(bytearray(12))
+            self.assertEqual(f.read(), 12 * b"\0")
+
+    @skipUnlessBuiltin('buffer')
+    def test_write_buffer(self):
+        data = 3 * b"pretend giant block of data\n"
+        offsets = range(0, len(data), 8)
+        with LoopbackFile('rb+') as f:
+            for offset in offsets:
+                f.write(buffer(data, offset, 8))
+            self.assertEqual(f.read(), data)
+
+    @skipUnlessBuiltin('memoryview')
+    def test_write_memoryview(self):
+        data = 3 * b"pretend giant block of data\n"
+        offsets = range(0, len(data), 8)
+        with LoopbackFile('rb+') as f:
+            view = memoryview(data)
+            for offset in offsets:
+                f.write(view[offset:offset+8])
+            self.assertEqual(f.read(), data)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     from unittest import main
     main()