# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 # Copyright (C) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may # not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain # a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT # WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the # License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations # under the License. import abc import six from taskflow.openstack.common import uuidutils from taskflow.utils import reflection class Flow(six.with_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta)): """The base abstract class of all flow implementations. It provides a name and an identifier (uuid) to the flow so that it can be uniquely identifed among many flows while executing or while referencing the results (or other metadata) of this flow in storage. NOTE(harlowja): if a flow is placed in another flow as a subflow, a desired way to compose flows together, then it is valid and permissible that during execution the subflow & parent flow may be flattened into a new flow. Since a flow is just a 'structuring' concept this is typically a behavior that should not be worried about (as it is not visible to the user), but it is worth mentioning here. Flows are expected to provide the following methods/properties: - add - __len__ - requires - provides """ def __init__(self, name, uuid=None): self._name = str(name) if uuid: self._id = str(uuid) else: self._id = uuidutils.generate_uuid() @property def name(self): """A non-unique name for this flow (human readable)""" return self._name @property def uuid(self): """A unique identifier for this flow""" return self._id @abc.abstractmethod def __len__(self): """Returns how many items are in this flow.""" raise NotImplementedError() def __str__(self): lines = ["%s: %s" % (reflection.get_class_name(self), self.name)] lines.append("%s" % (self.uuid)) lines.append("%s" % (len(self))) return "; ".join(lines) @abc.abstractmethod def add(self, *items): """Adds a given item/items to this flow.""" raise NotImplementedError() @abc.abstractproperty def requires(self): """Browse argument requirement names this flow requires to run.""" @abc.abstractproperty def provides(self): """Browse argument names provided by the flow."""