SharedResource

Description

Usually, each thread has its own data to minimize interference and to localize synchonization in the transaction commit.

However, this makes it difficult to control such data from a single point. E.g. it is very difficult to invalidate cache entries: while there is no problem for a thread to invalidate entries in its own cache, it is very difficult to do the same with the corresponding caches in the other threads.

Shared Resource is a module that manages resources shared by all threads. Such resources can be controlled much more easily. A shared resource provides locking capabilities (via Python's RLock) and performs automatic locking for function calls. Access to non-functions is not protected.

A shared resource is identified by an id. The application is responsible that ids are unique.

A call to getResource(id,creator,createArguments=()) returns the resource for id. If such a resource does not yet exist, one is created by calling creator with createArguments. Note, that creator and createArguments should only depend on id and not any other context, as no object is created, when a resource for id already exists.

Shared resources are not persistent. Currently, they do not support acquisition. This may change however.

Download

SharedResource has been uploaded as "dm.sharedresource" to the Python package index. Download the current version from there or even "easy-install" it.