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-rw-r--r--src/core.py30
-rw-r--r--src/fifo.py70
2 files changed, 100 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/core.py b/src/core.py
index 41a54b23..2b305f21 100644
--- a/src/core.py
+++ b/src/core.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ from contact import Contact, Resource
from text_buffer import TextBuffer
from keyboard import read_char
from theming import get_theme
+from fifo import Fifo
# http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#errorstatus
ERROR_AND_STATUS_CODES = {
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ class Core(object):
sys.excepthook = self.on_exception
self.running = True
self.xmpp = singleton.Singleton(connection.Connection)
+ self.remote_fifo = None
# a unique buffer used to store global informations
# that are displayed in almost all tabs, in an
# information window.
@@ -1707,3 +1709,31 @@ class Core(object):
return False
self.current_tab().command_say(msg)
return True
+
+ def exec_command(self, command):
+ """
+ Execute an external command on the local or a remote
+ machine, depending on the conf. For example, to open a link in a
+ browser, do exec_command("firefox http://poezio.eu"),
+ and this will call the command on the correct computer.
+ The remote execution is done by writing the command on a fifo.
+ That fifo has to be on the machine where poezio is running, and
+ accessible (through sshfs for example) from the local machine (where
+ poezio is not running). A very simple daemon reads on that fifo,
+ and executes any command that is read in it.
+ """
+ if config.get('exec_remote', 'false') == 'true':
+ # We just write the command in the fifo
+ if not self.remote_fifo:
+ try:
+ self.remote_fifo = Fifo(os.path.join(config.get('remote_fifo_path', './'), 'poezio.fifo'), 'w')
+ except (OSError, IOError) as e:
+ self.information('Could not open fifo file for writing: %s' % (e,), 'Error')
+ return
+ try:
+ self.remote_fifo.write(command)
+ except (IOError) as e:
+ self.information('Could not execute [%s]: %s' % (command, e,), 'Error')
+ self.remote_fifo = None
+ else:
+ pass
diff --git a/src/fifo.py b/src/fifo.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8306e24b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/fifo.py
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# Copyright 2011 Florent Le Coz <louiz@louiz.org>
+#
+# This file is part of Poezio.
+#
+# Poezio is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the zlib license. See the COPYING file.
+
+"""
+Defines the Fifo class
+"""
+
+import logging
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+import os
+import threading
+
+class OpenTrick(threading.Thread):
+ """
+ A threaded trick to make the open for writing succeed.
+ A fifo cannot be opened for writing if it has not been
+ yet opened by the other hand for reading.
+ So, we just open the fifo for reading and close it
+ immediately afterwards.
+ Once that is done, we can freely keep the fifo open for
+ writing and write things in it. The writing can fail if
+ there’s still nothing reading that fifo, but we just yell
+ an error in that case.
+ """
+ def __init__(self, path):
+ threading.Thread.__init__(self)
+ self.path = path
+
+ def run(self):
+ open(self.path, 'r').close()
+
+
+class Fifo(object):
+ """
+ Just a simple file handler, writing and reading in a fifo.
+ Mode is either 'r' or 'w', just like the mode for the open()
+ function.
+ """
+ def __init__(self, path, mode):
+ self.trick = None
+ if not os.path.exists(path):
+ os.mkfifo(path)
+ if mode == 'w':
+ self.trick = OpenTrick(path)
+ # that thread will wait until we open it for writing
+ self.trick.start()
+ self.fd = open(path, mode)
+
+ def write(self, data):
+ """
+ Try to write on the fifo. If that fails, this means
+ that nothing has that fifo opened, so the writing is useless,
+ so we just return (and display an error telling that, somewhere).
+ """
+ self.fd.write(data)
+ self.fd.flush()
+
+ def readline(self):
+ return self.fd.readline()
+
+ def __del__(self):
+ try:
+ self.fd.close()
+ except:
+ pass