# Copyright 2011 OpenStack Foundation. # 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. """Local storage of variables using weak references""" import threading import weakref class WeakLocal(threading.local): def __getattribute__(self, attr): rval = super(WeakLocal, self).__getattribute__(attr) if rval: # NOTE(mikal): this bit is confusing. What is stored is a weak # reference, not the value itself. We therefore need to lookup # the weak reference and return the inner value here. rval = rval() return rval def __setattr__(self, attr, value): value = weakref.ref(value) return super(WeakLocal, self).__setattr__(attr, value) # NOTE(mikal): the name "store" should be deprecated in the future store = WeakLocal() # A "weak" store uses weak references and allows an object to fall out of scope # when it falls out of scope in the code that uses the thread local storage. A # "strong" store will hold a reference to the object so that it never falls out # of scope. weak_store = WeakLocal() strong_store = threading.local()