Ye Olde Clue

New Tool for helping debugging Kamaelia Systems

I've added a PythonInterpreter component to Kamaelia in Kamaelia.Experimental.PythonInterpreter. The primary use for this is intended to assist with debugging, but there are other possible uses.

Use in a system

This allows a variety of things, from a basic command line console:

StandaloneInterpreter().run()

Which you can run in the background on any console. For example you could do
this:

    ServerCore(protocol=myprotocol, port=1234).activate()
    StandaloneInterpreter().run()

Alternatively, you can use an embeddable component that speaks to inbox/outbox rather than stdin/stdout. Crudely you can do something like this:

    Pipeline(
        ConsoleReader(),
        InterpreterTransformer(),
        ConsoleEchoer(),
    ).run()

But you can also put it inside a pygame application, reading & writing from a
Textbox/TextDisplayer:
    Pipeline(
        Textbox(size = (800, 300), position = (100,380)),
        InterpreterTransformer(),
        TextDisplayer(size = (800, 300), position = (100,40)),
    ).run()

This looks like this:

The interesting option this opens up of course is the fact that you can add in a networked interpreter (note: this is hideously insecure incidentally - so only safe of a network you completely control!) into any application:

    from Kamaelia.Chassis.Pipeline import Pipeline
    from Kamaelia.Chassis.ConnectedServer import ServerCore
    from Kamaelia.Util.PureTransformer import PureTransformer
   
    from Kamaelia.Experimental.PythonInterpreter import InterpreterTransformer
   
    def NetInterpreter(*args, **argv):
        return Pipeline(
                    PureTransformer(lambda x: str(x).rstrip()),
                    InterpreterTransformer(),
                    PureTransformer(lambda x: str(x)+"\r\n>>> "),
               )
   
    ServerCore(protocol=NetInterpreter, port=1236).run()

In one console:

    # ./ServerBasedPythonInterpreter.py

In another:

    ~> telnet 127.0.0.1 1236
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to 127.0.0.1.
    Escape character is '^]'.
   
    >>> self
    Component
Kamaelia.Experimental.PythonInterpreter.InterpreterTransformer_21 [ inboxes :
{'control': [], 'inbox': []} outboxes : {'outbox': [], 'signal': []}
    >>> "hello world"
    hello world
    >>> Axon
    <module 'Axon'
from '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Axon/__init__.pyc'>
    >>> dir(self)
    ['Inbox', 'Inboxes', 'Outboxes', 'Usescomponents', '_AxonObject_...
    >>> self.scheduler
    Axon.Scheduler.scheduler_1 :1 :1 :0 :
    >>> self.scheduler.threads
{<Kamaelia.Internet.TCPServer.TCPServer object at 0xb7b972cc>: <object object
at 0xb7c92468>,
<Kamaelia.Internet.ConnectedSocketAdapter.ConnectedSocketAdapter object at
0xb7ba4acc>: <object object at 0xb7c92468>,
<Kamaelia.Experimental.PythonInterpreter.InterpreterTransformer object at
0xb7ba6bec>: <object object at 0xb7c92468>,
<Kamaelia.Chassis.Pipeline.Pipeline object at 0xb7bafc2c>: <object object at
0xb7c92468>, <Kamaelia.Experimental.PythonInterpreter.InterpreterTransformer
object at 0xb7b9dc4c>: <object object at 0xb7c92468>,
<Kamaelia.Util.PureTransformer.PureTransformer object at 0xb7baf86c>: <object
object at 0xb7c92460>, <Kamaelia.Chassis.ConnectedServer.ServerCore object at
0xb7b8acec>: <object object at 0xb7c92468>,
<Kamaelia.Chassis.Pipeline.Pipeline object at 0xb7ba1d0c>: <object object at
0xb7c92468>, <Kamaelia.Util.PureTransformer.PureTransformer object at
0xb7ba192c>: <object object at 0xb7c92468>,
<Kamaelia.Util.PureTransformer.PureTransformer object at 0xb7b9d96c>: <object
object at 0xb7c92468>, <Kamaelia.Internet.Selector.Selector object at
0xb7b979cc>: <object object at 0xb7c92468>}

etc.

Rummaging Around inside Running Systems

The idea behind this component really is to assist in debugging live running systems by directly rummaging around inside them, which is why this form is probably most useful:

    if interactive_debug:
        StandaloneInterpreter().activate()
   
    MyMainApplication().run()

And whilst the other forms naturally drop out as useful, this form is probably the safest of the bunch!

This form also is slightly more flexible, in that it allows this sort of thing:

    ~/> ./BasicPythonInterpreter.py
    > from Kamaelia.UI.Pygame.Ticker import Ticker

    ok
    > X=Ticker()

    ok
    Component Kamaelia.UI.Pygame.Ticker.Ticker_7 [ inboxes : {'control':
[], '_displaycontrol': [], 'unpausebox': [], 'pausebox': [], 'inbox':
[], 'alphacontrol': []} outboxes : {'outbox': <>, 'signal':
<>, '_displaysignal': <>}
> X.activate()

    ok
    Component Kamaelia.UI.Pygame.Ticker.Ticker_7 [ inboxes : {'control':
[], '_displaycontrol': [], 'unpausebox': [], 'pausebox': [], 'inbox':
[''], 'alphacontrol': []} outboxes : {'outbox': <>, 'signal':
<>, '_displaysignal': <>}
> self.link((self, "outbox"), (X,"inbox"))

    ok
    Link( source:
[Kamaelia.Experimental.PythonInterpreter.StandaloneInterpreter_5,outbox],
sink:[Kamaelia.UI.Pygame.Ticker.Ticker_7,inbox] )
> self.send("Hello", "outbox")

    ok

As you can guess this then results the text displayer outputting to the display.

As another example, if you're rummaging inside a system, you could start up an introspector in another console:

   ./AxonVisualiser.py --port 1500

And then in the enbedded interpreter do this:

> from Kamaelia.Util.Introspector import Introspector

ok
> from Kamaelia.Chassis.Pipeline import Pipeline

ok
> from Kamaelia.Internet.TCPClient import TCPClient

ok
> Pipeline(
    Introspector(),
    TCPClient("127.0.0.1", 1500),
).activate()
> > >
ok

And that then adds an Axon visualisation/introspector to a running system - which looks like this:


Clearly this can aid in identifying when something has gone wrong.

Hope others find it useful too :-)

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