improvements on secop.client.Client

- add unregister_callback
  (this is needed for the SECoP client in nicos)
- improve error handling
- imporve error handling in AsynTcp
- also improve error handling on StringIO

Change-Id: If4f3632a93cbc0e7fbc55a966e09fcc3e69c09b7
Reviewed-on: https://forge.frm2.tum.de/review/c/sine2020/secop/playground/+/22852
Tested-by: JenkinsCodeReview <bjoern_pedersen@frm2.tum.de>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Faulhaber <enrico.faulhaber@frm2.tum.de>
Reviewed-by: Markus Zolliker <markus.zolliker@psi.ch>

secop/client/__init__.py

@@ -145,6 +145,21 @@ class ProxyClient:
         if kwds:
             raise TypeError('unknown callback: %s' % (', '.join(kwds)))
 
+    def unregister_callback(self, key, *args, **kwds):
+        """unregister a callback
+
+        for the arguments see register_callback
+        """
+        for cbfunc in args:
+            kwds[cbfunc.__name__] = cbfunc
+        for cbname, func in kwds.items():
+            cblist = self.callbacks[cbname][key]
+            if func in cblist:
+                cblist.remove(func)
+            if not cblist:
+                self.callbacks[cbname].pop(key)
+
+
     def callback(self, key, cbname, *args):
         """perform callbacks
 
@@ -332,6 +347,8 @@ class SecopClient(ProxyClient):
 
         self._rxthread = None
         self.disconnect(False)
+        if self._shutdown:
+            return
         if self.activate:
             self.log.info('try to reconnect to %s', self.uri)
             self._connthread = mkthread(self._reconnect)
@@ -440,9 +457,10 @@ class SecopClient(ProxyClient):
             self.modules[modname] = dict(accessibles=accessibles, parameters=parameters,
                                          commands=commands, properties=properties)
         if changed_modules is not None:
-            done = self.callback(None, 'descriptiveDataChange', None, self)
+            done = done_main = self.callback(None, 'descriptiveDataChange', None, self)
             for mname in changed_modules:
                 if not self.callback(mname, 'descriptiveDataChange', mname, self):
+                    if not done_main:
                         self.log.warning('descriptive data changed on module %r', mname)
                     done = True
             if not done:

secop/lib/asynconn.py

@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
 """asynchronous connections
 
 generic class for byte oriented communication
-includes implementation for TCP connections
-support for asynchronous communication, but may be used also for StringIO
+includes implementation for TCP and Serial connections
+support for asynchronous communication, but may be used also for
+synchronous IO (see secop.stringio.StringIO)
 """
 
 import socket
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ import ast
 from serial import Serial
 
 from secop.lib import parseHostPort, tcpSocket, closeSocket
-from secop.errors import ConfigError
+from secop.errors import ConfigError, CommunicationFailedError
 
 
 class ConnectionClosed(ConnectionError):
@@ -133,7 +134,11 @@ class AsynTcp(AsynConn):
         if uri.startswith('tcp://'):
             # should be the case always
             uri = uri[6:]
+        try:
             self.connection = tcpSocket(uri, self.defaultport, self.timeout)
+        except (ConnectionRefusedError, socket.gaierror) as e:
+            # indicate that retrying might make sense
+            raise CommunicationFailedError(str(e))
 
     def disconnect(self):
         if self.connection:
@@ -215,6 +220,7 @@ class AsynSerial(AsynConn):
             self.connection = Serial(dev, **options)
         except ValueError as e:
             raise ConfigError(e)
+        # TODO: turn exceptions into ConnectionFailedError, where a retry makes sense
 
     def disconnect(self):
         if self.connection:

secop/stringio.py

@@ -74,19 +74,13 @@ class StringIO(Communicator):
         self._conn = None
         self._lock = threading.RLock()
         self._end_of_line = self.end_of_line.encode(self.encoding)
-        self._connect_error = None
         self._last_error = None
 
     def connectStart(self):
         if not self.is_connected:
             uri = self.uri
-            try:
             self._conn = AsynConn(uri, self._end_of_line)
             self.is_connected = True
-            except Exception as e:
-                # this is really bad, do not try again
-                self._connect_error = e
-                raise
             for command, regexp in self.identification:
                 reply = self.do_communicate(command)
                 if not re.match(regexp, reply):
@@ -157,7 +151,7 @@ class StringIO(Communicator):
         """send a command and receive a reply
 
         using end_of_line, encoding and self._lock
-        for commands without reply, join it with a query command,
+        for commands without reply, the command must be joined with a query command,
         wait_before is respected for end_of_lines within a command.
         """
         if not self.is_connected:
@@ -170,6 +164,7 @@ class StringIO(Communicator):
                 else:
                     cmds = [command]
                 garbage = None
+                try:
                     for cmd in cmds:
                         if self.wait_before:
                             time.sleep(self.wait_before)
@@ -178,9 +173,9 @@ class StringIO(Communicator):
                             if garbage:
                                 self.log.debug('garbage: %s', garbage.decode(self.encoding))
                         self._conn.send((cmd + self.end_of_line).encode(self.encoding))
-                try:
                     reply = self._conn.readline(self.timeout)
                 except ConnectionClosed:
+                    self.closeConnection()
                     raise CommunicationFailedError('disconnected')
                 reply = reply.decode(self.encoding)
                 self.log.debug('recv: %s', reply)
@@ -221,6 +216,7 @@ class HasIodev(Module):
         try:
             self._iodev.read_is_connected()
         except (CommunicationFailedError, AttributeError):
+            # AttributeError: for missing _iodev?
             pass
         super().initModule()