# Copyright (C) 2011 Canonical Ltd # # 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, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA from __future__ import absolute_import import sys import threading class CatchingExceptionThread(threading.Thread): """A thread that keeps track of exceptions. If an exception occurs during the thread execution, it's caught and re-raised when the thread is joined(). """ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): # There are cases where the calling thread must wait, yet, if an # exception occurs, the event should be set so the caller is not # blocked. The main example is a calling thread that want to wait for # the called thread to be in a given state before continuing. try: sync_event = kwargs.pop('sync_event') except KeyError: # If the caller didn't pass a specific event, create our own sync_event = threading.Event() super(CatchingExceptionThread, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.set_sync_event(sync_event) self.exception = None self.ignored_exceptions = None # see set_ignored_exceptions self.lock = threading.Lock() # compatibility thunk for python-2.4 and python-2.5... if sys.version_info < (2, 6): name = property(threading.Thread.getName, threading.Thread.setName) def set_sync_event(self, event): """Set the ``sync_event`` event used to synchronize exception catching. When the thread uses an event to synchronize itself with another thread (setting it when the other thread can wake up from a ``wait`` call), the event must be set after catching an exception or the other thread will hang. Some threads require multiple events and should set the relevant one when appropriate. Note that the event should be initially cleared so the caller can wait() on him and be released when the thread set the event. Also note that the thread can use multiple events, setting them as it progress, while the caller can chose to wait on any of them. What matters is that there is always one event set so that the caller is always released when an exception is caught. Re-using the same event is therefore risky as the thread itself has no idea about which event the caller is waiting on. If the caller has already been released then a cleared event won't guarantee that the caller is still waiting on it. """ self.sync_event = event def switch_and_set(self, new): """Switch to a new ``sync_event`` and set the current one. Using this method protects against race conditions while setting a new ``sync_event``. Note that this allows a caller to wait either on the old or the new event depending on whether it wants a fine control on what is happening inside a thread. :param new: The event that will become ``sync_event`` """ cur = self.sync_event self.lock.acquire() try: # Always release the lock try: self.set_sync_event(new) # From now on, any exception will be synced with the new event except: # Unlucky, we couldn't set the new sync event, try restoring a # safe state self.set_sync_event(cur) raise # Setting the current ``sync_event`` will release callers waiting # on it, note that it will also be set in run() if an exception is # raised cur.set() finally: self.lock.release() def set_ignored_exceptions(self, ignored): """Declare which exceptions will be ignored. :param ignored: Can be either: - None: all exceptions will be raised, - an exception class: the instances of this class will be ignored, - a tuple of exception classes: the instances of any class of the list will be ignored, - a callable: that will be passed the exception object and should return True if the exception should be ignored """ if ignored is None: self.ignored_exceptions = None elif isinstance(ignored, (Exception, tuple)): self.ignored_exceptions = lambda e: isinstance(e, ignored) else: self.ignored_exceptions = ignored def run(self): """Overrides Thread.run to capture any exception.""" self.sync_event.clear() try: try: super(CatchingExceptionThread, self).run() except: self.exception = sys.exc_info() finally: # Make sure the calling thread is released self.sync_event.set() def join(self, timeout=None): """Overrides Thread.join to raise any exception caught. Calling join(timeout=0) will raise the caught exception or return None if the thread is still alive. """ super(CatchingExceptionThread, self).join(timeout) if self.exception is not None: exc_class, exc_value, exc_tb = self.exception self.exception = None # The exception should be raised only once if (self.ignored_exceptions is None or not self.ignored_exceptions(exc_value)): # Raise non ignored exceptions raise exc_class, exc_value, exc_tb def pending_exception(self): """Raise the caught exception. This does nothing if no exception occurred. """ self.join(timeout=0)