diff -r 000000000000 -r b97547f5f1fa server/server.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/server/server.py	Wed Nov 05 15:52:50 2008 +0100
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+"""Pyro RQL server
+
+:organization: Logilab
+:copyright: 2001-2008 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+:contact: http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+"""
+__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
+
+import os
+import sys
+import select
+import warnings
+from time import localtime, mktime
+
+from cubicweb.cwconfig import CubicWebConfiguration
+from cubicweb.server.repository import Repository
+
+class Finished(Exception):
+    """raise to remove an event from the event loop"""
+
+class TimeEvent:
+    """base event"""
+    # timefunc = staticmethod(localtime)
+    timefunc = localtime
+    
+    def __init__(self, absolute=None, period=None):
+        # local time tuple
+        if absolute is None:
+            absolute = self.timefunc()
+        self.absolute = absolute
+        # optional period in seconds
+        self.period = period
+
+    def is_ready(self):
+        """return  true if the event is ready to be fired"""
+        now = self.timefunc()
+        if self.absolute < now:
+            return True
+        return False
+
+    def fire(self, server):
+        """fire the event
+        must be overridden by concrete events
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def update(self):
+        """update the absolute date for the event or raise a finished exception
+        """
+        if self.period is None:
+            raise Finished
+        self.absolute = localtime(mktime(self.absolute) + self.period)
+
+
+class QuitEvent(TimeEvent):
+    """stop the server"""
+    def fire(self, server):
+        server.repo.shutdown()
+        server.quiting = True
+        
+
+class RepositoryServer(object):
+    
+    def __init__(self, config, debug=False):
+        """make the repository available as a PyRO object"""
+        self.config = config
+        self.repo = Repository(config, debug=debug)
+        self.ns = None
+        self.quiting = None
+        # event queue
+        self.events = []
+        # start repository looping tasks
+
+    def add_event(self, event):
+        """add an event to the loop"""
+        self.info('adding event %s', event)
+        self.events.append(event)
+
+    def trigger_events(self):
+        """trigger ready events"""
+        for event in self.events[:]:
+            if event.is_ready():
+                self.info('starting event %s', event)
+                event.fire(self)
+                try:
+                    event.update()
+                except Finished:
+                    self.events.remove(event)
+            
+    def run(self, req_timeout=5.0):
+        """enter the service loop"""
+        while self.quiting is None:
+            try:
+                self.daemon.handleRequests(req_timeout)
+            except select.error:
+                continue
+            self.trigger_events()
+    
+    def quit(self):
+        """stop the server"""
+        self.add_event(QuitEvent())
+
+    def connect(self, host='', port=0):
+        """the connect method on the repository only register to pyro if
+        necessary
+        """
+        self.daemon = self.repo.pyro_register(host)
+            
+    # server utilitities ######################################################
+    
+    def install_sig_handlers(self):
+        """install signal handlers"""
+        import signal
+        self.info('installing signal handlers')
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, lambda x, y, s=self: s.quit())
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, lambda x, y, s=self: s.quit())
+        
+    def daemonize(self, pid_file=None):
+        """daemonize the process"""
+        # fork so the parent can exist
+        if (os.fork()):
+            return -1
+        # deconnect from tty and create a new session
+        os.setsid()
+        # fork again so the parent, (the session group leader), can exit.
+        # as a non-session group leader, we can never regain a controlling
+        # terminal.
+        if (os.fork()):
+            return -1
+        # move to the root to avoit mount pb
+        os.chdir('/')
+        # set paranoid umask
+        os.umask(077)
+        if pid_file is not None:
+            # write pid in a file
+            f = open(pid_file, 'w')
+            f.write(str(os.getpid()))
+            f.close()
+        # filter warnings
+        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')
+        # close standard descriptors
+        sys.stdin.close()
+        sys.stdout.close()
+        sys.stderr.close()
+
+from logging import getLogger
+from cubicweb import set_log_methods
+LOGGER = getLogger('cubicweb.reposerver')
+set_log_methods(CubicWebConfiguration, LOGGER)