# Copyright 2015-2016, Google Inc. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are # met: # # * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # * Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its # contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from # this software without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS # "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT # LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR # A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT # OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, # SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT # LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, # DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY # THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE # OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. """A Future interface. Python doesn't have a Future interface in its standard library. In the absence of such a standard, three separate, incompatible implementations (concurrent.futures.Future, ndb.Future, and asyncio.Future) have appeared. This interface attempts to be as compatible as possible with concurrent.futures.Future. From ndb.Future it adopts a traceback-object accessor method. Unlike the concrete and implemented Future classes listed above, the Future class defined in this module is an entirely abstract interface that anyone may implement and use. The one known incompatibility between this interface and the interface of concurrent.futures.Future is that this interface defines its own CancelledError and TimeoutError exceptions rather than raising the implementation-private concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError and the built-in-but-only-in-3.3-and-later TimeoutError. """ import abc import six class TimeoutError(Exception): """Indicates that a particular call timed out.""" class CancelledError(Exception): """Indicates that the computation underlying a Future was cancelled.""" class Future(six.with_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta)): """A representation of a computation in another control flow. Computations represented by a Future may be yet to be begun, may be ongoing, or may have already completed. """ # NOTE(nathaniel): This isn't the return type that I would want to have if it # were up to me. Were this interface being written from scratch, the return # type of this method would probably be a sum type like: # # NOT_COMMENCED # COMMENCED_AND_NOT_COMPLETED # PARTIAL_RESULT # COMPLETED # UNCANCELLABLE # NOT_IMMEDIATELY_DETERMINABLE @abc.abstractmethod def cancel(self): """Attempts to cancel the computation. This method does not block. Returns: True if the computation has not yet begun, will not be allowed to take place, and determination of both was possible without blocking. False under all other circumstances including but not limited to the computation's already having begun, the computation's already having finished, and the computation's having been scheduled for execution on a remote system for which a determination of whether or not it commenced before being cancelled cannot be made without blocking. """ raise NotImplementedError() # NOTE(nathaniel): Here too this isn't the return type that I'd want this # method to have if it were up to me. I think I'd go with another sum type # like: # # NOT_CANCELLED (this object's cancel method hasn't been called) # NOT_COMMENCED # COMMENCED_AND_NOT_COMPLETED # PARTIAL_RESULT # COMPLETED # UNCANCELLABLE # NOT_IMMEDIATELY_DETERMINABLE # # Notice how giving the cancel method the right semantics obviates most # reasons for this method to exist. @abc.abstractmethod def cancelled(self): """Describes whether the computation was cancelled. This method does not block. Returns: True if the computation was cancelled any time before its result became immediately available. False under all other circumstances including but not limited to this object's cancel method not having been called and the computation's result having become immediately available. """ raise NotImplementedError() @abc.abstractmethod def running(self): """Describes whether the computation is taking place. This method does not block. Returns: True if the computation is scheduled to take place in the future or is taking place now, or False if the computation took place in the past or was cancelled. """ raise NotImplementedError() # NOTE(nathaniel): These aren't quite the semantics I'd like here either. I # would rather this only returned True in cases in which the underlying # computation completed successfully. A computation's having been cancelled # conflicts with considering that computation "done". @abc.abstractmethod def done(self): """Describes whether the computation has taken place. This method does not block. Returns: True if the computation is known to have either completed or have been unscheduled or interrupted. False if the computation may possibly be executing or scheduled to execute later. """ raise NotImplementedError() @abc.abstractmethod def result(self, timeout=None): """Accesses the outcome of the computation or raises its exception. This method may return immediately or may block. Args: timeout: The length of time in seconds to wait for the computation to finish or be cancelled, or None if this method should block until the computation has finished or is cancelled no matter how long that takes. Returns: The return value of the computation. Raises: TimeoutError: If a timeout value is passed and the computation does not terminate within the allotted time. CancelledError: If the computation was cancelled. Exception: If the computation raised an exception, this call will raise the same exception. """ raise NotImplementedError() @abc.abstractmethod def exception(self, timeout=None): """Return the exception raised by the computation. This method may return immediately or may block. Args: timeout: The length of time in seconds to wait for the computation to terminate or be cancelled, or None if this method should block until the computation is terminated or is cancelled no matter how long that takes. Returns: The exception raised by the computation, or None if the computation did not raise an exception. Raises: TimeoutError: If a timeout value is passed and the computation does not terminate within the allotted time. CancelledError: If the computation was cancelled. """ raise NotImplementedError() @abc.abstractmethod def traceback(self, timeout=None): """Access the traceback of the exception raised by the computation. This method may return immediately or may block. Args: timeout: The length of time in seconds to wait for the computation to terminate or be cancelled, or None if this method should block until the computation is terminated or is cancelled no matter how long that takes. Returns: The traceback of the exception raised by the computation, or None if the computation did not raise an exception. Raises: TimeoutError: If a timeout value is passed and the computation does not terminate within the allotted time. CancelledError: If the computation was cancelled. """ raise NotImplementedError() @abc.abstractmethod def add_done_callback(self, fn): """Adds a function to be called at completion of the computation. The callback will be passed this Future object describing the outcome of the computation. If the computation has already completed, the callback will be called immediately. Args: fn: A callable taking a this Future object as its single parameter. """ raise NotImplementedError()