Updated polling utility with many configurable options
Project description
polling2
Never write another polling function again!
Polling2 is a powerful python utility used to wait for a function to return a certain expected condition.
Some possible uses cases include:
- Wait for API response to return with code 200
- Wait for a file to exist (or not exist)
- Wait for a thread lock on a resource to expire
Polling2 is handy for getting rid of all that duplicated polling-code. Often, applications require retrying until the correct response is returned. Why re-implement the ability to poll again and again? Use Polling2!
Polling2 is a fork of the original polling. It was forked when the original maintainer failed to respond to issues or PRs.
Polling2 is ++under active development++. Would you like to see a particular feature? Ask and thou shall recieve.
Installation
pip install polling2
Development installation
# install lib, but use system links from the repo into sitepackages.
python setup.py develop
# install test dependenices.
python setup.py test
# run the tests
pytest tests
Examples
Example: Poll every minute until a url returns 200 status code
import requests
polling2.poll(
lambda: requests.get('http://google.com').status_code == 200,
step=60,
poll_forever=True)
If you are creating a new cloud provider instance (e.g. waiting for an EC2 instance to come online), you can continue to poll despite getting ConnectionErrors:
import requests
polling2.poll(
lambda: requests.get('your.instance.ip').status_code == 200,
step=60,
ignore_exceptions=(requests.exceptions.ConnectionError,),
poll_forever=True)
Example: Poll for a file to exist
# This call will wait until the file exists, checking every 0.1 seconds and stopping after 3 seconds have elapsed
file_handle = polling2.poll(
lambda: open('/tmp/myfile.txt'),
ignore_exceptions=(IOError,),
timeout=3,
step=0.1)
# Polling will return the value of your polling function, so you can now interact with it
file_handle.close()
Example: Polling for Selenium WebDriver elements
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://google.com')
search_box = polling2.poll(
lambda: driver.find_element_by_id('search'),
step=0.5,
timeout=7)
search_box.send_keys('python polling')
Example: Using the polling timeout exception
# An exception will be raised by the polling function on timeout (or the maximum number of calls is exceeded).
# This exception will have a 'values' attribute. This is a queue with all values that did not meet the condition.
# You can access them in the except block.
import random
try:
polling2.poll(lambda: random.choice([0, (), False]), step=0.5, timeout=1)
except polling2.TimeoutException, te:
while not te.values.empty():
# Print all of the values that did not meet the exception
print te.values.get()
Example: Using a custom checker
# is_truthy() is the default checker for the parameter check_success. But, it's easy to create a custom
# checker function, that tests whether the value returned by the target is the expected value.
# Here the target is going to return None, which the custom checker, created by is_value(None)
# will return True for.
polling2.poll(target=lambda: None, step=0.1, max_tries=1, check_success=polling2.is_value(None))
# Or another example, where we can test that False is returned by the target.
polling2.poll(target=lambda: False, step=0.1, max_tries=1, check_success=polling2.is_value(False))
Example: Using a custom condition callback function
import requests
def is_correct_response(response):
"""Check that the response returned 'success'"""
return response == 'success'
polling2.poll(
lambda: requests.put('http://mysite.com/api/user', data={'username': 'Jill'},
check_success=is_correct_response,
step=1,
timeout=10)
Example: Logging the return values from the target function.
import logging
import requests
def is_correct_response(response):
"""Check that the response returned 'success'"""
return response == 'success'
polling2.poll(
lambda: requests.put('http://mysite.com/api/user', data={'username': 'Jill'},
check_success=is_correct_response,
step=1,
timeout=10,
log=logging.DEBUG)
This will log the string representation of response object to python's logging module at the debug level. A message like this will be sent to the log for each return value. You can change the level by providing a different value to the log parameter.
poll() calls check_success(<Response [200]>)
There is also an option to log the exceptions that are caught by ignore_exceptions. Note, the full-exception traceback
will not be printed in the logs. Instead, the error and it's message (using %r formatting) will appear. In the following
code snippet, the ValueError raised by the function raises_error()
will be sent to the logger at the 'warning' level.
import polling2
import logging
import mock
# basicConfig should sent warning level messages to the stdout.
logging.basicConfig()
# Create a function that raises a ValueError, then a RuntimeError.
raises_error = mock.Mock(side_effect=[ValueError('a message'), RuntimeError])
try:
polling2.poll(
target=raises_error,
step=0.1,
max_tries=3,
ignore_exceptions=(ValueError), # Only ignore the ValueError.
log_error=logging.WARNING # Ignored errors should be passed to the logger at warning level.
)
except RuntimeError as _e:
print "Un-ignored %r" % _e``
Future extensions
- Add poll_killer(). Specify a hard timeout so that if the function being polled blocks and doesn't return, poll_killer() will raise a timeout.
- Add an option to do via multiprocessing.
- Add an option to do via threading - probably the default option.
- Add poll_chain(). Have reason to poll a bunch of functions in a row? poll_chain() allows you to chain a bunch of polling functions together.
- Allow step to be specificed as 0, so that we can poll continously. (Perhaps it's best to write a poll_continous() method.)
Release notes
0.4.5
- 'Begin poll(*)' message is logged when poll() is called. Hopefully this means the user doesn't feel the need to write a message before every call to poll() to indicate how long the poll() might take.
0.4.4
- Add is_value() function. A function that allows a user to easily build a custom checker, like is_truthy(), but for any value.
0.4.3
- Add log_error parameter to the poll signature. Enables logging of ignored exceptions.
0.4.2
- Add log_value() decorator and log parameter to poll signature. Enables logging of return_values.
0.4.0
- Fixed polling function from waiting another sleep whenever the max_tries value has reached zero.
- Remove test-only dependencies from requirements to install the package.
- No longer testing on python 2.6. Add support for travis testing on python 3.6 and pypy 3.5.
- Creation of polling2, forked from polling as previous maintainer seems to be ignoring issues and pull-requests.
- Remove
*a, **k
from poll signature. This allows Type errors to be raised if caller spells arguments into correctly, making bugs easier to find.
0.3.0
- Support Python 3.4+
0.2.0
- Allow users to access a "last" attribute on the exceptions. This should hold the last evaluated value, which is the more common use case than getting the first value.
- Fix a bug that actually ran 1 more time than value specified by max_tries
0.1.0
- First version
Contributors
- Justin Iso (original creator)
- Donal Mee
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