#------------------------------------------------------------------------ # # Copyright (C) 2000 Autonomous Zone Industries # # License: This is free software. You may use this software for any # purpose including modification/redistribution, so long as # this header remains intact and that you do not claim any # rights of ownership or authorship of this software. This # software has been tested, but no warranty is expressed or # implied. # # Author: Gregory P. Smith # # Note: I don't know how useful this is in reality since when a # DBLockDeadlockError happens the current transaction is supposed to be # aborted. If it doesn't then when the operation is attempted again # the deadlock is still happening... # --Robin # #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # # import the time.sleep function in a namespace safe way to allow # "from bsddb3.db import *" # from time import sleep _sleep = sleep del sleep import _bsddb _deadlock_MinSleepTime = 1.0/64 # always sleep at least N seconds between retrys _deadlock_MaxSleepTime = 3.14159 # never sleep more than N seconds between retrys _deadlock_VerboseFile = None # Assign a file object to this for a "sleeping" # message to be written to it each retry def DeadlockWrap(function, *_args, **_kwargs): """DeadlockWrap(function, *_args, **_kwargs) - automatically retries function in case of a database deadlock. This is a function intended to be used to wrap database calls such that they perform retrys with exponentially backing off sleeps in between when a DBLockDeadlockError exception is raised. A 'max_retries' parameter may optionally be passed to prevent it from retrying forever (in which case the exception will be reraised). d = DB(...) d.open(...) DeadlockWrap(d.put, "foo", data="bar") # set key "foo" to "bar" """ sleeptime = _deadlock_MinSleepTime max_retries = _kwargs.get('max_retries', -1) if _kwargs.has_key('max_retries'): del _kwargs['max_retries'] while 1: try: return apply(function, _args, _kwargs) except _db.DBLockDeadlockError: if _deadlock_VerboseFile: _deadlock_VerboseFile.write('dbutils.DeadlockWrap: sleeping %1.3f\n' % sleeptime) _sleep(sleeptime) # exponential backoff in the sleep time sleeptime = sleeptime * 2 if sleeptime > _deadlock_MaxSleepTime : sleeptime = _deadlock_MaxSleepTime max_retries = max_retries - 1 if max_retries == -1: raise #------------------------------------------------------------------------