# Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Robey Pointer # # This file is part of paramiko. # # Paramiko is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the # terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free # Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) # any later version. # # Paramiko is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY # WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR # A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more # details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with Paramiko; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. """ Resource manager. """ import weakref class ResourceManager (object): """ A registry of objects and resources that should be closed when those objects are deleted. This is meant to be a safer alternative to Python's ``__del__`` method, which can cause reference cycles to never be collected. Objects registered with the ResourceManager can be collected but still free resources when they die. Resources are registered using `register`, and when an object is garbage collected, each registered resource is closed by having its ``close()`` method called. Multiple resources may be registered per object, but a resource will only be closed once, even if multiple objects register it. (The last object to register it wins.) """ def __init__(self): self._table = {} def register(self, obj, resource): """ Register a resource to be closed with an object is collected. When the given ``obj`` is garbage-collected by the Python interpreter, the ``resource`` will be closed by having its ``close()`` method called. Any exceptions are ignored. :param object obj: the object to track :param object resource: the resource to close when the object is collected """ def callback(ref): try: resource.close() except: pass del self._table[id(resource)] # keep the weakref in a table so it sticks around long enough to get # its callback called. :) self._table[id(resource)] = weakref.ref(obj, callback) # singleton ResourceManager = ResourceManager()