"""
This module contains the Girder events framework. It maintains a global mapping
of events to listeners, and contains utilities for callers to handle or trigger
events identified by a name.
Listeners should bind to events by calling:
``girder.events.bind('event.name', 'my.handler', handlerFunction)``
And events should be fired by calling:
``girder.events.trigger('event.name', info)``
"""
import contextlib
import logging
from collections import OrderedDict
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
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class Event:
"""
An Event object is created when an event is triggered. It is passed to
each of the listeners of the event, which have a chance to add information
to the event, and also optionally stop the event from being further
propagated to other listeners, and also optionally instruct the caller that
it should not execute its default behavior.
"""
# We might have a lot of events, so we use __slots__ to make them smaller
__slots__ = (
'info',
'name',
'propagate',
'defaultPrevented',
'responses',
'currentHandlerName'
)
def __init__(self, name, info):
self.name = name
self.info = info
self.propagate = True
self.defaultPrevented = False
self.responses = []
self.currentHandlerName = None
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def preventDefault(self):
"""
This can be used to instruct the triggerer of the event that the default
behavior it would normally perform should not be performed. The
semantics of this action are specific to the context of the event
being handled, but a common use of this method is for a plugin to
provide an alternate behavior that will replace the normal way the
event is handled by the core system.
"""
self.defaultPrevented = True
return self
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def stopPropagation(self):
"""
Listeners should call this on the event they were passed in order to
stop any other listeners to the event from being executed.
"""
self.propagate = False
return self
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def addResponse(self, response):
"""
Listeners that wish to return data back to the caller who triggered this
event should call this to append their own response to the event.
:param response: The response value, which can be any type.
"""
self.responses.append(response)
return self
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def bind(eventName, handlerName, handler):
"""
Bind a listener (handler) to the event identified by eventName. It is
convention that plugins will use their own name as the handlerName, so that
the trigger() caller can see which plugin(s) responded to the event.
:param eventName: The name that identifies the event.
:type eventName: str
:param handlerName: The name that identifies the handler calling bind().
:type handlerName: str
:param handler: The function that will be called when the event is fired.
It must accept a single argument, which is the Event that
was created by trigger(). This function should not return
a value; any data that it needs to pass back to the
triggerer should be passed via the addResponse() method of
the Event.
:type handler: function
"""
if eventName in _deprecated:
logger.warning('event "%s" is deprecated; %s', eventName, _deprecated[eventName])
if eventName not in _mapping:
_mapping[eventName] = OrderedDict()
if handlerName in _mapping[eventName]:
logger.warning('Event binding already exists: %s -> %s', eventName, handlerName)
_mapping[eventName][handlerName] = handler
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def unbind(eventName, handlerName):
"""
Removes the binding between the event and the given listener.
:param eventName: The name that identifies the event.
:type eventName: str
:param handlerName: The name that identifies the handler calling bind().
:type handlerName: str
"""
_mapping.get(eventName, {}).pop(handlerName, None)
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def unbindAll():
"""
Clears the entire event map. All bound listeners will be unbound.
.. warning:: This will also disable internal event listeners, which are
necessary for normal Girder functionality. This function should generally
never be called outside of testing.
"""
_mapping.clear()
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@contextlib.contextmanager
def bound(eventName, handlerName, handler):
"""
A context manager to temporarily bind an event handler within its scope.
Parameters are the same as those to :py:func:`girder.events.bind`.
"""
bind(eventName, handlerName, handler)
try:
yield
finally:
unbind(eventName, handlerName)
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def trigger(eventName, info=None, pre=None):
"""
Fire an event with the given name. All listeners bound on that name will be
called until they are exhausted or one of the handlers calls the
stopPropagation() method on the event.
:param eventName: The name that identifies the event.
:type eventName: str
:param info: The info argument to pass to the handler function. The type of
this argument is opaque, and can be anything.
:param pre: A function that will be executed prior to the handler being
executed. It will receive a dict with a "handler" key, (the function),
"info" key (the info arg to this function), and "eventName" and
"handlerName" values.
:type pre: function or None
"""
e = Event(eventName, info)
for name, handler in _mapping.get(eventName, {}).items():
e.currentHandlerName = name
if pre is not None:
pre(info=info, handler=handler, eventName=eventName, handlerName=name)
handler(e)
if e.propagate is False:
break
return e
_deprecated = {}
_mapping = {}