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# Message

Implementation of an SSH2 “message”.

class `paramiko.message.``Message`(content=None)

  An SSH2 message is a stream of bytes that encodes some combination of strings, integers, bools, and infinite-precision integers (known in Python as longs). This class builds or breaks down such a byte stream.

  Normally you don’t need to deal with anything this low-level, but it’s exposed for people implementing custom extensions, or features that paramiko doesn’t support yet.

  `__init__`(content=None)

    Create a new SSH2 message.

    Parameters: | content (str) – the byte stream to use as the message content (passed in only when decomposing a message).

  `__repr__`()

    Returns a string representation of this object, for debugging.

  `__str__`()

    Return the byte stream content of this message, as a string/bytes obj.

  `__weakref__`

    list of weak references to the object (if defined)

  `add`(*seq)

    Add a sequence of items to the stream. The values are encoded based on their type: str, int, bool, list, or long.

    Warning

    Longs are encoded non-deterministically. Don’t use this method.

    Parameters: | seq – the sequence of items

  `add_boolean`(b)

    Add a boolean value to the stream.

    Parameters: | b (bool) – boolean value to add

  `add_byte`(b)

    Write a single byte to the stream, without any formatting.

    Parameters: | b (str) – byte to add

  `add_bytes`(b)

    Write bytes to the stream, without any formatting.

    Parameters: | b (str) – bytes to add

  `add_int`(n)

    Add an integer to the stream.

    @param n: integer to add @type n: int

  `add_int64`(n)

    Add a 64-bit int to the stream.

    Parameters: | n (long) – long int to add

  `add_list`(l)

    Add a list of strings to the stream. They are encoded identically to a single string of values separated by commas. (Yes, really, that’s how SSH2 does it.)

    Parameters: | l (list) – list of strings to add

  `add_mpint`(z)

    Add a long int to the stream, encoded as an infinite-precision integer. This method only works on positive numbers.

    Parameters: | z (long) – long int to add

  `add_size`(n)

    Add an integer to the stream.

    Parameters: | n (int) – integer to add

  `add_string`(s)

    Add a string to the stream.

    Parameters: | s (str) – string to add

  `asbytes`()

    Return the byte stream content of this Message, as bytes.

  `get_binary`()

    Fetch a string from the stream. This could be a byte string and may contain unprintable characters. (It’s not unheard of for a string to contain another byte-stream Message.)

    @return: a string. @rtype: string

  `get_boolean`()

    Fetch a boolean from the stream.

  `get_byte`()

    Return the next byte of the message, without decomposing it. This is equivalent to `get_bytes(1)`.

    Returns: | the next (`str`) byte of the message, or `'\'` if there aren’t any bytes remaining.

  `get_bytes`(n)

    Return the next `n` bytes of the message (as a `str`), without decomposing into an int, decoded string, etc. Just the raw bytes are returned. Returns a string of `n` zero bytes if there weren’t `n` bytes remaining in the message.

  `get_int`()

    Fetch an int from the stream.

    Returns: | a 32-bit unsigned `int`.

  `get_int64`()

    Fetch a 64-bit int from the stream.

    Returns: | a 64-bit unsigned integer (`long`).

  `get_list`()

    Fetch a `list` of `strings` from the stream.

    These are trivially encoded as comma-separated values in a string.

  `get_mpint`()

    Fetch a long int (mpint) from the stream.

    Returns: | an arbitrary-length integer (`long`).

  `get_remainder`()

    Return the bytes (as a `str`) of this message that haven’t already been parsed and returned.

  `get_size`()

    Fetch an int from the stream.

    @return: a 32-bit unsigned integer. @rtype: int

  `get_so_far`()

    Returns the `str` bytes of this message that have been parsed and returned. The string passed into a message’s constructor can be regenerated by concatenating `get_so_far` and `get_remainder`.

  `get_string`()

    Fetch a `str` from the stream. This could be a byte string and may contain unprintable characters. (It’s not unheard of for a string to contain another byte-stream message.)

  `get_text`()

    Fetch a string from the stream. This could be a byte string and may contain unprintable characters. (It’s not unheard of for a string to contain another byte-stream Message.)

    @return: a string. @rtype: string

  `rewind`()

    Rewind the message to the beginning as if no items had been parsed out of it yet.