A general purpose bidirectional packet stream connection.

Latest release 20240412:

• PacketConnection: now subclasses MultiOpenMixin, big refactor.
• PacketConnection.init: use @promote to turn the recv parameter into a CornuCopyBuffer.
• Fix a deadlock.

Class Packet(cs.binary.SimpleBinary)

A protocol packet.

Method Packet.__str__(self): pylint: disable=signature-differs

Method Packet.parse(bfr): Parse a Packet from a buffer.

Method Packet.transcribe(self): Transcribe this packet.

Class PacketConnection(cs.resources.MultiOpenMixin)

A bidirectional binary connection for exchanging requests and responses.

Method PacketConnection.__init__(self, recv: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer, send, request_handler=None, name=None, packet_grace=None, tick=None, recv_len_func=None, send_len_func=None): Initialise the PacketConnection.

Parameters:

• recv: inbound binary stream. This value is automatically promoted to a cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer by the CornuCopyBuffer.promote method.
• recv_len_func: optional function to compute the data length of a received packet; the default watches the offset on the receive stream
• send: outbound binary stream. If this is an int it is taken to be an OS file descriptor, otherwise it should be a binary file like object with .write(bytes) and .flush() methods. This objects is not closed by the PacketConnection; the caller has responsibility for that.
• send_len_func: optional function to compute the data length of a sent packet; the default watches the offset on the send stream
• packet_grace: default pause in the packet sending worker to allow another packet to be queued before flushing the output stream. Default: DEFAULT_PACKET_GRACEs. A value of 0 will flush immediately if the queue is empty.
• request_handler: an optional callable accepting (rq_type, flags, payload). The request_handler may return one of 5 values on success:
  • None: response will be 0 flags and an empty payload.
  • int: flags only. Response will be the flags and an empty payload.
  • bytes: payload only. Response will be 0 flags and the payload.
  • str: payload only. Response will be 0 flags and the str encoded as bytes using UTF-8.
  • (int, bytes): Specify flags and payload for response. An unsuccessful request should raise an exception, which will cause a failure response packet.
• tick: optional tick parameter, default None. If None, do nothing. If a Boolean, call tick_fd_2 if true, otherwise do nothing. Otherwise tick should be a callable accepting a byteslike value.

Method PacketConnection.do(self, *a, **kw): Wrapper function to check that this instance is not closed.

Method PacketConnection.join(self): Wait for the receive side of the connection to terminate.

Method PacketConnection.request(self, *a, **kw): Wrapper function to check that this instance is not closed.

Class Request_State(builtins.tuple)

RequestState(decode_response, result)

Property Request_State.decode_response: Alias for field number 0

Property Request_State.result: Alias for field number 1

Function tick_fd_2(bs)

A low level tick function to write a short binary tick to the standard error file descriptor.

This may be called by the send and receive workers to give an indication of activity type.

Release Log

Release 20240412:

• PacketConnection: now subclasses MultiOpenMixin, big refactor.
• PacketConnection.init: use @promote to turn the recv parameter into a CornuCopyBuffer.
• Fix a deadlock.

Release 20211208:

• Packet.eq: only test .rq_type if .is_request.
• Update tests for changes.

Release 20210306:

• Port to new cs.binary.Binary* classes.
• Some refactors and small fixes.

Release 20191004:

• PacketConnection: new optional parameter packet_grace to tune the send delay for additional packets before a flush, default DEFAULT_PACKET_GRACE (0.01s), 0 for no delay.
• Add a crude packet level activity ticker.

Release 20190221: DISTINFO requirement updates.

Release 20181228: Initial PyPI release.