[Stackless] Suggestions about Customizing Channels with Composition rather than Inheritance

[Andrew Francis]

Hello Colleagues:

I have been looking at Richard Tew's Wiki suggestions
about customising channels and tasklets (i.e.,
providing names). The examples are very useful.

Since I am haven't come up to speed concerning
pickling, I thought it would be is easier to use
composition. For example here is an example of a
channel class, ProcessorChannel that takes a name and
provides two new methods for attaching and detaching
tasklets to and from channels.  I wrote
ProcessorChannel to make it easier to swap inactive
"tasklet groups" in and out of memory. 

Comments would be appreciated. If this approach is
sound, I will write up a Wiki page.

Cheers,
Andrew

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""

ProcessorChannel is a wrapper for the stackless
channel.
Two differences

1. Name
2. Methods to make attaching and detaching the channel
from its tasklets easier.

"""

import stackless

class ProcessorChannel(object):
    def __init__(self, name = None):
        self.name = name
        self.channel = stackless.channel()
        self.tasklets = []
        
        
    def __repr__(self):
        return self.name 
   
   
    """
    get the underlying channel's balance
    """
    def getBalance(self):
        return self.channel.balance
    
    
    """
    
    """
    def attach(self):
        x, y, (balance, flags, waste) =
self.channel.__reduce__()
        self.channel.__setstate__((balance, flags,
self.tasklets))
        return 
    
    
    def detach(self):
        x, y, (balance, flags, self.tasklets) =
self.channel.__reduce__()
        self.channel.__setstate__((balance, flags,
[]))
        return 
    
    
    def receive(self):
        return self.channel.receive()
    
    
    def send(self, message):
        self.channel.send(message)
        
        
    balance = property(getBalance)


 
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