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# Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Twisted Matrix Laboratories.
# See LICENSE for details.

"""
Extended thread dispatching support.

For basic support see reactor threading API docs.

Maintainer: Itamar Shtull-Trauring
"""

import Queue

from twisted.python import failure
from twisted.internet import defer


def deferToThreadPool(reactor, threadpool, f, *args, **kwargs):
    """
    Call the function C{f} using a thread from the given threadpool and return
    the result as a Deferred.

    This function is only used by client code which is maintaining its own
    threadpool.  To run a function in the reactor's threadpool, use
    C{deferToThread}.

    @param reactor: The reactor in whose main thread the Deferred will be
        invoked.

    @param threadpool: An object which supports the C{callInThreadWithCallback}
        method of C{twisted.python.threadpool.ThreadPool}.

    @param f: The function to call.
    @param *args: positional arguments to pass to f.
    @param **kwargs: keyword arguments to pass to f.

    @return: A Deferred which fires a callback with the result of f, or an
        errback with a L{twisted.python.failure.Failure} if f throws an
        exception.
    """
    d = defer.Deferred()

    def onResult(success, result):
        if success:
            reactor.callFromThread(d.callback, result)
        else:
            reactor.callFromThread(d.errback, result)

    threadpool.callInThreadWithCallback(onResult, f, *args, **kwargs)

    return d


def deferToThread(f, *args, **kwargs):
    """
    Run a function in a thread and return the result as a Deferred.

    @param f: The function to call.
    @param *args: positional arguments to pass to f.
    @param **kwargs: keyword arguments to pass to f.

    @return: A Deferred which fires a callback with the result of f,
    or an errback with a L{twisted.python.failure.Failure} if f throws
    an exception.
    """
    from twisted.internet import reactor
    return deferToThreadPool(reactor, reactor.getThreadPool(),
                             f, *args, **kwargs)


def _runMultiple(tupleList):
    """
    Run a list of functions.
    """
    for f, args, kwargs in tupleList:
        f(*args, **kwargs)


def callMultipleInThread(tupleList):
    """
    Run a list of functions in the same thread.

    tupleList should be a list of (function, argsList, kwargsDict) tuples.
    """
    from twisted.internet import reactor
    reactor.callInThread(_runMultiple, tupleList)


def blockingCallFromThread(reactor, f, *a, **kw):
    """
    Run a function in the reactor from a thread, and wait for the result
    synchronously, i.e. until the callback chain returned by the function
    get a result.

    @param reactor: The L{IReactorThreads} provider which will be used to
        schedule the function call.
    @param f: the callable to run in the reactor thread
    @type f: any callable.
    @param a: the arguments to pass to C{f}.
    @param kw: the keyword arguments to pass to C{f}.

    @return: the result of the callback chain.
    @raise: any error raised during the callback chain.
    """
    queue = Queue.Queue()
    def _callFromThread():
        result = defer.maybeDeferred(f, *a, **kw)
        result.addBoth(queue.put)
    reactor.callFromThread(_callFromThread)
    result = queue.get()
    if isinstance(result, failure.Failure):
        result.raiseException()
    return result


__all__ = ["deferToThread", "deferToThreadPool", "callMultipleInThread",
           "blockingCallFromThread"]