Added first version of TickerHandler, for managing subscription style tickers in a centralized way.

src/scripts/tickerhandler.py

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+"""
+Tickerhandler
+
+This implements an efficient Ticker which uses a subscription
+model to 'tick' subscribed objects at regular intervals. All
+that is required is that the subscribing objects has a
+method "at_tick".
+"""
+from twisted.internet.task import LoopingCall
+from src.server.models import ServerConfig
+from src.utils.logger import log_trace
+from src.utils.utils import to_str
+from src.utils.dbserialize import dbserialize, dbunserialize, pack_dbobj, unpack_dbobj
+
+_GA = object.__getattribute__
+_SA = object.__setattr__
+
+
+class _Ticker(object):
+    """
+    Represents a repeatedly running task that calls
+    hooks repeatedly.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, interval, hook_key="at_tick"):
+        """
+        Set up the ticker
+        """
+        def callback(self):
+            "This should be fed _Task as argument"
+            hook_key = self.hook_key
+            for key, obj in self.subscriptions.items():
+                try:
+                    _GA(obj, hook_key)()
+                except Exception:
+                    log_trace()
+
+        self.interval = interval
+        self.hook_key = hook_key
+        self.subscriptions = {}
+        self.task = LoopingCall(callback, self)
+
+    def validate(self):
+        """
+        Start/stop the task depending on how many
+        subscribers we have using it.
+        """
+        subs = self.subscriptions
+        if None in subs.values():
+            # clean out objects that may have been deleted
+            subs = dict((store_key, obj) for store_key, obj in subs if obj)
+            self.subscriptions = subs
+        if self.task.running:
+            if not subs:
+                self.task.stop()
+        elif subs:
+            self.task.start(self.interval, now=False)
+
+    def add(self, store_key, obj):
+        """
+        Sign up a subscriber to this ticker
+        """
+        self.subscriptions[store_key] = obj
+        self.validate()
+
+    def remove(self, store_key):
+        """
+        Unsubscribe object from this ticker
+        """
+        self.subscriptions.pop(store_key, False)
+        self.validate()
+
+    def stop(self):
+        """
+        Kill the Task, regardless of subscriptions
+        """
+        self.subscriptions = {}
+        self.validate()
+
+class _TickerPool(object):
+    """
+    This maintains a pool of Twisted LoopingCall tasks
+    for calling subscribed objects at given times.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, hook_key="at_tick"):
+        "Initialize the pool"
+        self.tickers = {}
+
+    def add(self, store_key, obj, interval, hook_key="at_tick"):
+        """
+        Add new ticker subscriber
+        """
+        if interval not in self.tickers:
+            self.tickers[interval] = _Ticker(interval, hook_key=hook_key)
+        self.tickers[interval].add(store_key, obj)
+
+    def remove(self, store_key, interval):
+        """
+        Remove subscription from pool
+        """
+        if interval in self.tickers:
+            self.tickers[interval].remove(store_key)
+
+    def stop(self, interval=None):
+        """
+        Stop all scripts in pool. This is done at server reload since
+        restoring the pool will automatically re-populate the pool.
+        If interval is given, only stop tickers with that interval.
+        """
+        if interval and interval in self.tickers:
+            self.tickers[interval].stop()
+        else:
+            for ticker in self.tickers.values():
+                ticker.stop()
+
+
+class TickerHandler(object):
+    """
+    The Tickerhandler maintains a pool of tasks for subscribing
+    objects to various tick rates.  The pool maintains creation
+    instructions and and re-applies them at a server restart.
+    """
+    def __init__(self):
+        """
+        Initialize handler
+        """
+        self.ticker_storage = {}
+        self.ticker_pool = _TickerPool()
+
+    def _store_key(self, obj, interval, hook_key):
+        """
+        Tries to create a store_key for the object.
+        Returns a tuple (isdb, store_key) where isdb
+        is a boolean True if obj was a database object,
+        False otherwise.
+        """
+        try:
+            obj = obj.typeclass
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
+        dbobj = None
+        try:
+            dbobj = obj.dbobj
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
+        isdb = True
+        if dbobj:
+            # create a store_key using the database representation
+            objkey = pack_dbobj(dbobj)
+        else:
+            # non-db object, look for a property "key" on it, otherwise
+            # use its memory location.
+            try:
+                objkey = _GA(obj, "key")
+            except AttributeError:
+                objkey = id(obj)
+            isdb = False
+        # return sidb and store_key
+        return isdb, (objkey, interval, hook_key)
+
+    def save(self):
+        """
+        Save ticker_storage as a serialized string into a temporary
+        ServerConf field. This is called by server when it shuts down
+        """
+        #print "save:", self.ticker_storage
+        if self.ticker_storage:
+            ServerConfig.objects.conf(key="ticker_storage",
+                                    value=dbserialize(self.ticker_storage))
+        else:
+            ServerConfig.objects.conf(key="ticker_storage", delete=True)
+
+    def restore(self):
+        """
+        Restore ticker_storage from database and re-initialize the handler from storage. This is triggered by the server at restart.
+        """
+        # load stored command instructions and use them to re-initialize handler
+        ticker_storage = ServerConfig.objects.conf(key="ticker_storage")
+        if ticker_storage:
+            self.ticker_storage = dbunserialize(ticker_storage)
+            #print "restore:", self.ticker_storage
+            for (obj, interval, hook_key) in self.ticker_storage.values():
+                obj = unpack_dbobj(obj)
+                _, store_key = self._store_key(obj, interval, hook_key)
+                self.ticker_pool.add(store_key, obj, interval, hook_key)
+
+    def add(self, obj, interval, hook_key="at_tick"):
+        """
+        Add object to tickerhandler. The object must have an at_tick
+        method. This will be called every interval seconds until the
+        object is unsubscribed from the ticker.
+        """
+        isdb, store_key = self._store_key(obj, interval, hook_key)
+        if isdb:
+            self.ticker_storage[store_key] = store_key
+            self.save()
+        self.ticker_pool.add(store_key, obj, interval, hook_key)
+
+    def remove(self, obj, interval, hook_key="at_tick"):
+        """
+        Remove object from ticker with given interval.
+        """
+        isdb, store_key = self._store_key(obj, interval, hook_key)
+        if isdb:
+            self.ticker_storage.pop(store_key, None)
+            self.save()
+        self.ticker_pool.remove(store_key, interval)
+
+    def clear(self, interval=None):
+        """
+        Stop/remove all tickers from handler, or the ones
+        with a given interval. This is the only supported
+        way to kill tickers for non-db objects. If interval
+        is given, only stop tickers with this interval.
+        """
+        self.ticker_pool.stop(interval)
+        if interval:
+            self.ticker_storage = dict((store_key, store_key) for store_key in self.ticker_storage if store_key[1] != interval)
+        else:
+            self.ticker_storage = {}
+        self.save()
+
+    def all(self, interval=None):
+        """
+        Get the subsciptions for a given interval. If interval
+        is not given, return a dictionary with lists for every
+        interval in the tickerhandler.
+        """
+        if interval is None:
+            # return dict of all, ordered by interval
+            return dict((interval, ticker.subscriptions.values())
+                         for interval, ticker in self.ticker_pool.tickers.items())
+        else:
+            # get individual interval
+            ticker = self.ticker_pool.tickers.get(interval, None)
+            if ticker:
+                return ticker.subscriptions.values()
+
+# main tickerhandler
+TICKER_HANDLER = TickerHandler()

src/server/server.py

@@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ class Evennia(object):
             from src.server.oobhandler import OOB_HANDLER
             OOB_HANDLER.restore()
 
+        from src.scripts.tickerhandler import TICKER_HANDLER
+        TICKER_HANDLER.restore()
+
         if SERVER_STARTSTOP_MODULE:
             # call correct server hook based on start file value
             if mode in ('True', 'reload'):