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- """Refactored 'safe reference from dispatcher.py"""
-
- import weakref
- import traceback
-
-
- def safe_ref(target, on_delete=None):
- """Return a *safe* weak reference to a callable target.
-
- - ``target``: The object to be weakly referenced, if it's a bound
- method reference, will create a BoundMethodWeakref, otherwise
- creates a simple weakref.
-
- - ``on_delete``: If provided, will have a hard reference stored to
- the callable to be called after the safe reference goes out of
- scope with the reference object, (either a weakref or a
- BoundMethodWeakref) as argument.
- """
- if hasattr(target, 'im_self'):
- if target.im_self is not None:
- # Turn a bound method into a BoundMethodWeakref instance.
- # Keep track of these instances for lookup by disconnect().
- assert hasattr(target, 'im_func'), (
- "safe_ref target %r has im_self, but no im_func, "
- "don't know how to create reference"
- % target
- )
- reference = BoundMethodWeakref(target=target, on_delete=on_delete)
- return reference
- if callable(on_delete):
- return weakref.ref(target, on_delete)
- else:
- return weakref.ref(target)
-
-
- class BoundMethodWeakref(object):
- """'Safe' and reusable weak references to instance methods.
-
- BoundMethodWeakref objects provide a mechanism for referencing a
- bound method without requiring that the method object itself
- (which is normally a transient object) is kept alive. Instead,
- the BoundMethodWeakref object keeps weak references to both the
- object and the function which together define the instance method.
-
- Attributes:
-
- - ``key``: The identity key for the reference, calculated by the
- class's calculate_key method applied to the target instance method.
-
- - ``deletion_methods``: Sequence of callable objects taking single
- argument, a reference to this object which will be called when
- *either* the target object or target function is garbage
- collected (i.e. when this object becomes invalid). These are
- specified as the on_delete parameters of safe_ref calls.
-
- - ``weak_self``: Weak reference to the target object.
-
- - ``weak_func``: Weak reference to the target function.
-
- Class Attributes:
-
- - ``_all_instances``: Class attribute pointing to all live
- BoundMethodWeakref objects indexed by the class's
- calculate_key(target) method applied to the target objects.
- This weak value dictionary is used to short-circuit creation so
- that multiple references to the same (object, function) pair
- produce the same BoundMethodWeakref instance.
- """
-
- _all_instances = weakref.WeakValueDictionary()
-
- def __new__(cls, target, on_delete=None, *arguments, **named):
- """Create new instance or return current instance.
-
- Basically this method of construction allows us to
- short-circuit creation of references to already- referenced
- instance methods. The key corresponding to the target is
- calculated, and if there is already an existing reference,
- that is returned, with its deletion_methods attribute updated.
- Otherwise the new instance is created and registered in the
- table of already-referenced methods.
- """
- key = cls.calculate_key(target)
- current = cls._all_instances.get(key)
- if current is not None:
- current.deletion_methods.append(on_delete)
- return current
- else:
- base = super(BoundMethodWeakref, cls).__new__(cls)
- cls._all_instances[key] = base
- base.__init__(target, on_delete, *arguments, **named)
- return base
-
- def __init__(self, target, on_delete=None):
- """Return a weak-reference-like instance for a bound method.
-
- - ``target``: The instance-method target for the weak reference,
- must have im_self and im_func attributes and be
- reconstructable via the following, which is true of built-in
- instance methods::
-
- target.im_func.__get__( target.im_self )
-
- - ``on_delete``: Optional callback which will be called when
- this weak reference ceases to be valid (i.e. either the
- object or the function is garbage collected). Should take a
- single argument, which will be passed a pointer to this
- object.
- """
- def remove(weak, self=self):
- """Set self.isDead to True when method or instance is destroyed."""
- methods = self.deletion_methods[:]
- del self.deletion_methods[:]
- try:
- del self.__class__._all_instances[self.key]
- except KeyError:
- pass
- for function in methods:
- try:
- if callable(function):
- function(self)
- except Exception:
- try:
- traceback.print_exc()
- except AttributeError, e:
- print ('Exception during saferef %s '
- 'cleanup function %s: %s' % (self, function, e))
- self.deletion_methods = [on_delete]
- self.key = self.calculate_key(target)
- self.weak_self = weakref.ref(target.im_self, remove)
- self.weak_func = weakref.ref(target.im_func, remove)
- self.self_name = str(target.im_self)
- self.func_name = str(target.im_func.__name__)
-
- def calculate_key(cls, target):
- """Calculate the reference key for this reference.
-
- Currently this is a two-tuple of the id()'s of the target
- object and the target function respectively.
- """
- return (id(target.im_self), id(target.im_func))
- calculate_key = classmethod(calculate_key)
-
- def __str__(self):
- """Give a friendly representation of the object."""
- return "%s(%s.%s)" % (
- self.__class__.__name__,
- self.self_name,
- self.func_name,
- )
-
- __repr__ = __str__
-
- def __nonzero__(self):
- """Whether we are still a valid reference."""
- return self() is not None
-
- def __cmp__(self, other):
- """Compare with another reference."""
- if not isinstance(other, self.__class__):
- return cmp(self.__class__, type(other))
- return cmp(self.key, other.key)
-
- def __call__(self):
- """Return a strong reference to the bound method.
-
- If the target cannot be retrieved, then will return None,
- otherwise returns a bound instance method for our object and
- function.
-
- Note: You may call this method any number of times, as it does
- not invalidate the reference.
- """
- target = self.weak_self()
- if target is not None:
- function = self.weak_func()
- if function is not None:
- return function.__get__(target)
- return None
-