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"""
Encoding detection and normalization for text files.
Handles the messy reality of 20 years of web-generated data with
mixed encodings, mojibake, and partial writes containing null bytes.
"""
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Optional, Tuple, List
import chardet
import ftfy
from ..core.base_classes import BaseCleaner
from ..core.config import Config
from ..core.errata_logger import ErrataLogger
from ..core.exceptions import EncodingError
class EncodingCleaner(BaseCleaner):
"""
Detects and normalizes file encodings.
Handles:
- Automatic encoding detection using chardet
- Fallback to candidate encodings
- Mojibake correction using ftfy
- Null byte removal from partial writes
- Normalization to UTF-8
"""
def __init__(self, config: Config, errata_logger: Optional[ErrataLogger] = None):
"""
Initialize encoding cleaner.
Args:
config: Configuration object
errata_logger: Optional errata logger for error tracking
"""
super().__init__(config, errata_logger)
# Get configuration
self.candidate_encodings: List[str] = config.get(
'encoding.candidate_encodings',
['utf-8', 'latin-1', 'windows-1252', 'iso-8859-1']
)
self.confidence_threshold: float = config.get(
'encoding.confidence_threshold',
0.7
)
self.fix_mojibake: bool = config.get('encoding.fix_mojibake', True)
def detect_encoding(
self,
file_path: str | Path,
sample_size: int = 100000
) -> Tuple[str, float]:
"""
Detect file encoding using chardet.
Args:
file_path: Path to file
sample_size: Number of bytes to sample for detection
Returns:
Tuple of (encoding, confidence)
Raises:
EncodingError: If encoding cannot be detected
"""
file_path = Path(file_path)
try:
with open(file_path, 'rb') as f:
raw_data = f.read(sample_size)
# Remove null bytes before detection
raw_data = raw_data.replace(b'\x00', b'')
if not raw_data:
raise EncodingError(f"File is empty or contains only null bytes: {file_path}")
result = chardet.detect(raw_data)
encoding = result['encoding']
confidence = result['confidence']
if encoding is None:
raise EncodingError(f"Could not detect encoding for {file_path}")
return encoding, confidence
except IOError as e:
raise EncodingError(f"Failed to read file {file_path}: {e}")
def read_with_encoding(
self,
file_path: str | Path,
encoding: str,
remove_null_bytes: bool = True
) -> str:
"""
Read file with specified encoding.
Args:
file_path: Path to file
encoding: Encoding to use
remove_null_bytes: Whether to remove null bytes
Returns:
Decoded text content
Raises:
EncodingError: If reading with encoding fails
"""
file_path = Path(file_path)
try:
with open(file_path, 'rb') as f:
raw_data = f.read()
# Remove null bytes from partial writes
if remove_null_bytes:
raw_data = raw_data.replace(b'\x00', b'')
# Decode with specified encoding
text = raw_data.decode(encoding, errors='strict')
return text
except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
raise EncodingError(
f"Failed to decode {file_path} with {encoding}: {e}"
)
except IOError as e:
raise EncodingError(f"Failed to read file {file_path}: {e}")
def clean(
self,
data: str | Path,
file_path: Optional[str] = None,
**kwargs
) -> str:
"""
Clean encoding of text data or file.
Args:
data: Either file path or text string to clean
file_path: Optional file path for error logging
**kwargs: Additional parameters
Returns:
Cleaned UTF-8 text
Raises:
EncodingError: If encoding cannot be resolved
"""
# If data is a path, read the file
if isinstance(data, (str, Path)) and Path(data).is_file():
file_path = str(data)
data, was_utf8 = self._read_file_smart_tagged(Path(data))
elif not isinstance(data, str):
raise EncodingError(f"Invalid data type: {type(data)}")
else:
was_utf8 = False
# Fast path: if file decoded as UTF-8, skip ftfy and round-trip
# Normalize all line endings: CRLF -> LF, then bare CR -> LF
# (some files have mixed line endings, e.g. card190309.dat, loc020520.dat)
if was_utf8:
return data.replace('\r\n', '\n').replace('\r', '\n')
# Slow path: fix mojibake and normalize
if self.fix_mojibake:
try:
data = ftfy.fix_text(data)
except Exception as e:
self.log_error(
'mojibake_fix_failed',
f"Failed to fix mojibake: {e}",
file_path=file_path
)
# Normalize to UTF-8, logging any characters that get replaced
encoded = data.encode('utf-8', errors='replace')
replacement_count = encoded.count(b'\xef\xbf\xbd') # UTF-8 bytes of U+FFFD
if replacement_count > 0:
self.log_error(
'utf8_replacement_chars',
f"{replacement_count} character(s) replaced with U+FFFD during UTF-8 normalization",
file_path=file_path
)
data = encoded.decode('utf-8')
# Normalize line endings (same as fast path)
data = data.replace('\r\n', '\n').replace('\r', '\n')
return data
def _read_file_smart_tagged(self, file_path: Path) -> Tuple[str, bool]:
"""
Read file and return (text, was_utf8).
When was_utf8=True, the file decoded cleanly as UTF-8 and the caller
can skip expensive ftfy/mojibake processing (just strip CR).
"""
try:
with open(file_path, 'rb') as f:
raw_data = f.read()
raw_data = raw_data.replace(b'\x00', b'')
if not raw_data:
raise EncodingError(f"File is empty or contains only null bytes: {file_path}")
try:
return raw_data.decode('utf-8'), True
except UnicodeDecodeError:
pass # Fall through — need slow path for non-UTF-8
except IOError:
pass
# Non-UTF-8 or IO error: use full smart reader
return self._read_file_smart(file_path), False
def _read_file_smart(self, file_path: Path) -> str:
"""
Read file with intelligent encoding detection and fallback.
Tries:
1. Fast path: UTF-8 decode (covers ~99% of files)
2. Fast fallback: latin-1 decode (covers remaining)
3. Slow path: chardet detection (only if fast paths produce issues)
Args:
file_path: Path to file
Returns:
Decoded text
Raises:
EncodingError: If all attempts fail
"""
last_error = None
# Fast path: try UTF-8 directly, fallback to latin-1
# Profiling shows ~99% of files are ASCII/UTF-8 compatible.
# This avoids expensive chardet detection for the common case.
try:
with open(file_path, 'rb') as f:
raw_data = f.read()
raw_data = raw_data.replace(b'\x00', b'')
if not raw_data:
raise EncodingError(f"File is empty or contains only null bytes: {file_path}")
try:
return raw_data.decode('utf-8')
except UnicodeDecodeError:
return raw_data.decode('latin-1')
except (IOError, EncodingError):
pass # Fall through to slow path
# Slow path: Try automatic detection with chardet
try:
encoding, confidence = self.detect_encoding(file_path)
# Skip ASCII if detected - it's too restrictive, try UTF-8 or latin-1 instead
if encoding and encoding.lower() != 'ascii':
if confidence >= self.confidence_threshold:
text = self.read_with_encoding(file_path, encoding)
return text
else:
self.log_error(
'low_confidence_encoding',
f"Low confidence ({confidence:.2f}) for detected encoding {encoding}",
file_path=str(file_path)
)
except EncodingError as e:
last_error = str(e)
self.log_error(
'encoding_detection_failed',
str(e),
file_path=str(file_path)
)
# Try candidate encodings in order
# Prioritize more permissive encodings for problematic files
for encoding in self.candidate_encodings:
try:
text = self.read_with_encoding(file_path, encoding)
# Log which fallback encoding worked
if last_error:
self.log_error(
'encoding_fallback_success',
f"Successfully read with {encoding} after detection failed",
file_path=str(file_path)
)
return text
except EncodingError as e:
last_error = str(e)
continue
# Last resort: latin-1 (never fails, so validate the result)
self.log_error(
'encoding_fallback',
f"All encodings failed, falling back to latin-1",
file_path=str(file_path)
)
try:
text = self.read_with_encoding(file_path, 'latin-1')
except EncodingError as e:
raise EncodingError(
f"Fatal: Could not read {file_path} even with latin-1: {e}"
)
# Sanity check: latin-1 accepts any byte sequence, so a binary/corrupt
# file will decode without error into garbage. Reject if the result
# has a high ratio of control characters (excluding \t, \n, \r).
if text:
control_chars = sum(
1 for ch in text
if ch < ' ' and ch not in ('\t', '\n', '\r')
)
ratio = control_chars / len(text)
if ratio > 0.05:
self.log_error(
'encoding_garbage_detected',
f"latin-1 fallback produced {ratio:.1%} control characters — file appears corrupt",
file_path=str(file_path)
)
raise EncodingError(
f"File appears corrupt (latin-1 decoded to {ratio:.1%} control chars): {file_path}"
)
return text
def clean_batch(
self,
file_paths: List[str | Path]
) -> List[Tuple[str, str]]:
"""
Clean encoding for a batch of files.
Args:
file_paths: List of file paths to process
Returns:
List of tuples (file_path, cleaned_text)
"""
results = []
for file_path in file_paths:
try:
cleaned = self.clean(file_path)
results.append((str(file_path), cleaned))
except EncodingError as e:
self.log_error(
'batch_encoding_failed',
str(e),
file_path=str(file_path)
)
# Continue processing other files
return results