# Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Sebastian Thiel (byronimo@gmail.com) and contributors
#
# This module is part of async and is released under
# the New BSD License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Module with threading utilities"""
__docformat__ = "restructuredtext"
import threading
import inspect
import logging
try:
import queue
except ImportError:
import Queue as queue
__all__ = ('do_terminate_threads', 'terminate_threads', 'TerminatableThread',
'WorkerThread')
log = logging.getLogger()
#{ Decorators
def do_terminate_threads(whitelist=list()):
"""Simple function which terminates all of our threads
:param whitelist: If whitelist is given, only the given threads will be terminated"""
for t in threading.enumerate():
if not isinstance(t, TerminatableThread):
continue
if whitelist and t not in whitelist:
continue
t.schedule_termination()
t.stop_and_join()
# END for each thread
def terminate_threads(func):
"""Kills all worker threads the method has created by sending the quit signal.
This takes over in case of an error in the main function"""
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
cur_threads = set(threading.enumerate())
try:
return func(*args, **kwargs)
finally:
do_terminate_threads(set(threading.enumerate()) - cur_threads)
# END finally shutdown threads
# END wrapper
wrapper.__name__ = func.__name__
return wrapper
#} END decorators
#{ Classes
class TerminatableThread(threading.Thread):
"""A simple thread able to terminate itself on behalf of the user.
Terminate a thread as follows:
t.stop_and_join()
Derived classes call _should_terminate() to determine whether they should
abort gracefully
"""
__slots__ = '_terminate'
def __init__(self):
super(TerminatableThread, self).__init__()
self._terminate = False
# Use standard python means of non-blocking threads (even though we can tell this one to stop explicitly)
self.daemon = True
#{ Subclass Interface
def _should_terminate(self):
""":return: True if this thread should terminate its operation immediately"""
return self._terminate
def _terminated(self):
"""Called once the thread terminated. Its called in the main thread
and may perform cleanup operations"""
pass
def start(self):
"""Start the thread and return self"""
super(TerminatableThread, self).start()
return self
#} END subclass interface
#{ Interface
def schedule_termination(self):
"""Schedule this thread to be terminated as soon as possible.
:note: this method does not block."""
self._terminate = True
def stop_and_join(self):
"""Ask the thread to stop its operation and wait for it to terminate
:note: Depending on the implenetation, this might block a moment"""
self._terminate = True
self.join()
self._terminated()
#} END interface
class StopProcessing(Exception):
"""If thrown in a function processed by a WorkerThread, it will terminate"""
class WorkerThread(TerminatableThread):
""" This base allows to call functions on class instances natively.
As it is meant to work with a pool, the result of the call must be
handled by the callee.
The thread runs forever unless it receives the terminate signal using
its task queue.
Tasks could be anything, but should usually be class methods and arguments to
allow the following:
inq = Queue()
w = WorkerThread(inq)
w.start()
inq.put((WorkerThread., args, kwargs))
finally we call quit to terminate asap.
alternatively, you can make a call more intuitively - the output is the output queue
allowing you to get the result right away or later
w.call(arg, kwarg='value').get()
inq.put(WorkerThread.quit)
w.join()
You may provide the following tuples as task:
t[0] = class method, function or instance method
t[1] = optional, tuple or list of arguments to pass to the routine
t[2] = optional, dictionary of keyword arguments to pass to the routine
"""
__slots__ = ('inq')
# define how often we should check for a shutdown request in case our
# taskqueue is empty
shutdown_check_time_s = 0.5
def __init__(self, inq = None):
super(WorkerThread, self).__init__()
self.inq = inq
if inq is None:
self.inq = queue.Queue()
@classmethod
def stop(cls, *args):
"""If send via the inq of the thread, it will stop once it processed the function"""
raise StopProcessing
def run(self):
"""Process input tasks until we receive the quit signal"""
gettask = self.inq.get
while True:
if self._should_terminate():
break
# END check for stop request
# note: during shutdown, this turns None in the middle of waiting
# for an item to be put onto it - we can't du anything about it -
# even if we catch everything and break gracefully, the parent
# call will think we failed with an empty exception.
# Hence we just don't do anything about it. Alternatively
# we could override the start method to get our own bootstrapping,
# which would mean repeating plenty of code in of the threading module.
tasktuple = gettask()
# needing exactly one function, and one arg
routine, arg = tasktuple
try:
try:
if inspect.ismethod(routine):
if routine.__self__ is None:
routine(self, arg)
else:
routine(arg)
elif inspect.isroutine(routine):
routine(arg)
else:
# ignore unknown items
log.warn("%s: task %s was not understood - terminating", self.getName(), str(tasktuple))
break
# END make routine call
finally:
# make sure we delete the routine to release the reference as soon
# as possible. Otherwise objects might not be destroyed
# while we are waiting
del(routine)
del(tasktuple)
except StopProcessing:
break
except Exception as e:
log.error("%s: Task raised unhandled exception: %s - this really shouldn't happen !",
(self.getName(), str(e)))
continue # just continue
# END routine exception handling
# END handle routine release
# END endless loop
def stop_and_join(self):
"""Send stop message to ourselves - we don't block, the thread will terminate
once it has finished processing its input queue to receive our termination
event"""
# DONT call superclass as it will try to join - join's don't work for
# some reason, as python apparently doesn't switch threads (so often)
# while waiting ... I don't know, but the threads respond properly,
# but only if dear python switches to them
self.inq.put((self.stop, None))
#} END classes