# ========================================================================= # FILE: WorkerThread.py # # USAGE: --- # # DESCRIPTION: This class open all third party application using QT Thread # # OPTIONS: --- # REQUIREMENTS: --- # BUGS: --- # NOTES: --- # AUTHOR: Fahim Khan, fahim.elex@gmail.com # MODIFIED: Rahul Paknikar, rahulp@iitb.ac.in # ORGANIZATION: eSim team at FOSSEE, IIT Bombay. # CREATED: Tuesday 24 February 2015 # REVISION: Friday 14 February 2020 # ========================================================================= from PyQt4 import QtCore import subprocess from configuration.Appconfig import Appconfig class WorkerThread(QtCore.QThread): """ Initialise a QThread with the passed arguments WorkerThread uses QThread to support threading operations for other PyQT windows This is a helper functions, used to create threads for various commands @params :args => takes a space separated string of comamnds to be execute in different child processes (see subproces.Popen()) @return None """ def __init__(self, args): QtCore.QThread.__init__(self) self.args = args self.my_workers = [] def __del__(self): """ __del__ is a called whenever garbage collection is initialised Here, it waits (self.wait()) for the thread to finish executing before garbage collecting it @params @return None """ self.wait() def get_proc_threads(self): """ This function is a getter for the list of project's workers, and is called to check if project's schematic is open or not. @params @return :self.my_workers """ return self.my_workers def run(self): """ run is the function that is called, when we start the thread as thisThread.start() Here, it makes system calls for all args passed (self.args) @params @return None """ print("Worker Thread Calling Command :", self.args) self.call_system(self.args) def call_system(self, command): """ call_system is used to create childprocess for the passed arguments (self.args) and also pass the process created and its id to config file Apponfig() object contains procThread and proc_dist used to track processes called @params :command => (self.args) takes space separated string of\ comamnds to be executed in different child processes (see subprocess.Popen()) """ procThread = Appconfig() proc = subprocess.Popen(command.split()) self.my_workers.append(proc) procThread.procThread_list.append(proc) procThread.proc_dict[procThread.current_project['ProjectName']].append( proc.pid)