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#
# threads.py:  anaconda thread management
#
# Copyright (C) 2012
# Red Hat, Inc.  All rights reserved.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# Author(s):  Chris Lumens <clumens@redhat.com>
#
import threading

class ThreadManager(object):
    """A singleton class for managing threads and processes.

       Note:  This manager makes one assumption that contradicts python's
       threading module documentation.  In this class, we assume that thread
       names are unique and meaningful.  This is an okay assumption for us
       to make given that anaconda is only ever going to have a handful of
       special purpose threads.
    """
    def __init__(self):
        self._objs = {}

    def __call__(self):
        return self

    def add(self, obj):
        """Given a Thread or Process object, add it to the list of known objects
           and start it.  It is assumed that obj.name is unique and descriptive.
        """
        if obj.name in self._objs:
            raise KeyError

        self._objs[obj.name] = obj
        obj.start()

    def remove(self, name):
        """Removes a thread from the list of known objects.  This should only
           be called when a thread exits, or there will be no way to get a
           handle on it.
        """
        self._objs.pop(name)

    def exists(self, name):
        """Determine if a thread or process exists with the given name."""
        return name in self._objs

    def get(self, name):
        """Given an object name, see if it exists and return the object.
           Return None if no such object exists.
        """
        return self._objs.get(name)

class AnacondaThread(threading.Thread):
    """A threading.Thread subclass that exists only for a couple purposes:

       (1) Make exceptions that happen in a thread invoke our exception handling
           code as well.  Otherwise, threads will silently die and we are doing
           a lot of complicated code in them now.

       (2) Remove themselves from the thread manager when completed.
    """
    def run(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # http://bugs.python.org/issue1230540#msg25696
        import sys

        try:
            threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
        except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
            raise
        except:
            sys.excepthook(*sys.exc_info())
        finally:
            threadMgr.remove(self.name)

def initThreading():
    """Set up threading for anaconda's use.  This method must be called before
       any GTK or threading code is called, or else threads will only run when
       an event is triggered in the GTK main loop.
    """
    from gi.repository import GObject
    GObject.threads_init()

threadMgr = ThreadManager()