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AsyncRequest Class Reference

Inherits direct::showbase::DirectObject::DirectObject.

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Public Member Functions

def __init__
def askForObject
def askForObjectField
def askForObjectFields
def askForObjectFieldsByString
def createObject
def createObjectId
def delete
def finish
def timeout

Public Attributes

 air
 deletingMessage
 neededObjects
 numRetries
 replyToChannelId
 timeoutTask

Static Public Attributes

tuple notify = DirectNotifyGlobal.directNotify.newCategory('AsyncRequest')

Detailed Description

This class is used to make asynchronos reads and creates to a database.

You can create a list of self.neededObjects and then ask for each to be
read or created, or if you only have one object that you need you can
skip the self.neededObjects because calling askForObject or createObject
will set the self.neededObjects value for you.

Once all the objects have been read or created, the self.finish() method
will be called.  You may override this function to run your code in a
derived class.

If you wish to queue up several items that you all need before the finish
method is called, you can put items in self.neededObjects and then call
askForObject or createObject afterwards.  That way the _checkCompletion
will not call finish until after all the requests have been done.

If you need to chain serveral object reads or creates, just add more
entries to the self.neededObjects dictionary in the self.finish function
and return without calling AsyncRequest.finish().  Your finish method
will be called again when the new self.neededObjects is complete.  You
may repeat this as necessary.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

def __init__ (   self,
  air,
  replyToChannelId = None,
  timeoutTime = ASYNC_REQUEST_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS,
  numRetries = ASYNC_REQUEST_DEFAULT_NUM_RETRIES 
)
air is the AI Respository.
replyToChannelId may be an avatarId, an accountId, or a channelId.
timeoutTime is how many seconds to wait before aborting the request.
numRetries is the number of times to retry the request before giving up.

Member Function Documentation

def askForObject (   self,
  doId,
  context = None 
)
Request an already created object, i.e. read from database.
def askForObjectField (   self,
  dclassName,
  fieldName,
  doId,
  key = None,
  context = None 
)
Request an already created object, i.e. read from database.
def askForObjectFields (   self,
  dclassName,
  fieldNames,
  doId,
  key = None,
  context = None 
)
Request an already created object, i.e. read from database.
def askForObjectFieldsByString (   self,
  dbId,
  dclassName,
  objString,
  fieldNames,
  key = None,
  context = None 
)
def createObject (   self,
  name,
  className,
  databaseId = None,
  values = None,
  context = None 
)
Create a new database object.  You can get the doId from within
your self.finish() function.

This functions is different from createObjectId in that it does
generate the object when the response comes back.  The object is
added to the doId2do and so forth and treated as a full regular
object (which it is).  This is useful on the AI where we really
do want the object on the AI.
def createObjectId (   self,
  name,
  className,
  values = None,
  context = None 
)
Create a new database object.  You can get the doId from within
your self.finish() function.

This functions is different from createObject in that it does not
generate the object when the response comes back.  It only tells you
the doId.  This is useful on the UD where we don't really want the
object on the UD, we just want the object created and the UD wants
to send messages to it using the ID.
def delete (   self)
def finish (   self)
This is the function that gets called when all of the needed objects
are in (i.e. all the askForObject and createObject requests have
been satisfied).
If the other requests timeout, finish will not be called.
def timeout (   self,
  task 
)

Member Data Documentation

air
tuple notify = DirectNotifyGlobal.directNotify.newCategory('AsyncRequest') [static]
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