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blib/lib/Future/IO.pm

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#  You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License
#  or the Artistic License (the same terms as Perl itself)
#
#  (C) Paul Evans, 2019-2023 -- [e-mail]

package Future::IO 0.14;

use v5.14;
use warnings;

use Carp;

# These need to be visible to sub override_impl
my @alarms;
my @readers;
my @writers;

our $IMPL;

our $MAX_READLEN = 8192;
our $MAX_WRITELEN = 8192;

=head1 NAME

C - Future-returning IO methods

=head1 SYNOPSIS

   use Future::IO;

   my $delay = Future::IO->sleep( 5 );
   # $delay will become done in 5 seconds time

   my $input = Future::IO->sysread( \*STDIN, 4096 );
   # $input will yield some input from the STDIN IO handle

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This package provides a few basic methods that behave similarly to the
same-named core perl functions relating to IO operations, but yield their
results asynchronously via L instances.

This is provided primarily as a decoupling mechanism, to allow modules to be
written that perform IO in an asynchronous manner to depend directly on this,
while allowing asynchronous event systems to provide an implementation of
these operations.

=head2 Default Implementation

If the C method is not invoked, a default implementation of
these operations is provided. This implementation allows a single queue of
C or C calls on a single filehandle only, combined with
C calls. It does not support C.

It is provided for the simple cases where modules only need one filehandle
(most likely a single network socket or hardware device handle), allowing such
modules to work without needing a better event system.

If there are both read/write and C futures pending, the implementation
will use C to wait for either. This may be problematic on MSWin32,
depending on what type of filehandle is involved.

For cases where multiple filehandles are required, or for doing more involved
IO operations, a real implementation based on an actual event loop should be
provided. The following are known to exist; CPAN may provide others:

=over 4

=item *

L

=item *

L

=item *

L

=back

=head2 Unit Testing

The replaceable implementation is also useful for writing unit test scripts.
If the implementation is set to an instance of some sort of test fixture or
mocking object, a unit test can check that the appropriate IO operations
happen as part of the test.

A testing module which does this is provided by L.

=cut

=head1 METHODS

=cut

=head2 accept

   $socketfh = await Future::IO->accept( $fh );

I

Returns a L that will become done when a new connection has been
accepted on the given filehandle, which should represent a listen-mode socket.
The returned future will yield the newly-accepted client socket filehandle.

=cut

sub accept
{
   shift;
   my ( $fh ) = @_;

   return ( $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl" )->accept( $fh );
}

=head2 alarm

   await Future::IO->alarm( $epoch );

I

Returns a L that will become done at a fixed point in the future,
given as an epoch timestamp (such as returned by C). This value may be
fractional.

=cut

sub alarm
{
   shift;
   my ( $epoch ) = @_;

   $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl";

   if( $IMPL->can( "alarm" ) ) {
      return $IMPL->alarm( $epoch );
   }
   else {
      return $IMPL->sleep( $epoch - Time::HiRes::time() );
   }
}

=head2 connect

   await Future::IO->connect( $fh, $name );

I

Returns a L that will become done when a C has succeeded on
the given filehandle to the given sockname address.

=cut

sub connect
{
   shift;
   my ( $fh, $name ) = @_;

   return ( $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl" )->connect( $fh, $name );
}

=head2 sleep

   await Future::IO->sleep( $secs );

Returns a L that will become done a fixed delay from now, given in
seconds. This value may be fractional.

=cut

sub sleep
{
   shift;
   my ( $secs ) = @_;

   return ( $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl" )->sleep( $secs );
}

=head2 sysread

   $bytes = await Future::IO->sysread( $fh, $length );

Returns a L that will become done when at least one byte can be read
from the given filehandle. It may return up to C<$length> bytes. On EOF, the
returned future will yield an empty list (or C in scalar context). On
any error (other than C / C which are ignored), the
future fails with a suitable error message.

Note specifically this may perform only a single C call, and thus
is not guaranteed to actually return the full length.

=cut

sub sysread
{
   shift;
   my ( $fh, $length ) = @_;

   return ( $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl" )->sysread( $fh, $length );
}

=head2 sysread_exactly

   $bytes = await Future::IO->sysread_exactly( $fh, $length );

I

Returns a L that will become done when exactly the given number of
bytes have been read from the given filehandle. It returns exactly C<$length>
bytes. On EOF, the returned future will yield an empty list (or C in
scalar context), even if fewer bytes have already been obtained. These bytes
will be lost. On any error (other than C / C which are
ignored), the future fails with a suitable error message.

This may make more than one C call.

=cut

sub sysread_exactly
{
   shift;
   my ( $fh, $length ) = @_;

   $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl";

   if( my $code = $IMPL->can( "sysread_exactly" ) ) {
      return $IMPL->$code( $fh, $length );
   }

   return _sysread_into_buffer( $IMPL, $fh, $length, \(my $buffer = '') );
}

sub _sysread_into_buffer
{
   my ( $IMPL, $fh, $length, $bufref ) = @_;

   $IMPL->sysread( $fh, $length - length $$bufref )->then( sub {
      my ( $more ) = @_;
      return Future->done() if !defined $more; # EOF

      $$bufref .= $more;

      return Future->done( $$bufref ) if length $$bufref >= $length;
      return _sysread_into_buffer( $IMPL, $fh, $length, $bufref );
   });
}

=head2 sysread_until_eof

   $f = Future::IO->sysread_until_eof( $fh )

I

Returns a L that will become done when the given filehandle reaches
the EOF condition. The returned future will yield all of the bytes read up
until that point.

=cut

sub sysread_until_eof
{
   shift;
   my ( $fh ) = @_;

   $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl";

   return _sysread_until_eof( $IMPL, $fh, \(my $buffer = '') );
}

sub _sysread_until_eof
{
   my ( $IMPL, $fh, $bufref ) = @_;

   $IMPL->sysread( $fh, $MAX_READLEN )->then( sub {
      my ( $more ) = @_;
      return Future->done( $$bufref ) if !defined $more;

      $$bufref .= $more;
      return _sysread_until_eof( $IMPL, $fh, $bufref );
   });
}

=head2 syswrite

   $written_len = await Future::IO->syswrite( $fh, $bytes );

I

Returns a L that will become done when at least one byte has been
written to the given filehandle. It may write up to all of the bytes. On any
error (other than C / C which are ignored) the future
fails with a suitable error message.

Note specifically this may perform only a single C call, and thus
is not guaranteed to actually return the full length.

=cut

sub syswrite
{
   shift;
   my ( $fh, $bytes ) = @_;

   return ( $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl" )->syswrite( $fh, $bytes );
}

=head2 syswrite_exactly

   $written_len = await Future::IO->syswrite_exactly( $fh, $bytes );

I

Returns a L that will become done when exactly the given bytes have
been written to the given filehandle. On any error (other than C /
C which are ignored) the future fails with a suitable error
message.

This may make more than one C call.

=cut

sub syswrite_exactly
{
   shift;
   my ( $fh, $bytes ) = @_;

   $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl";

   if( my $code = $IMPL->can( "syswrite_exactly" ) ) {
      return $IMPL->$code( $fh, $bytes );
   }

   return _syswrite_from_buffer( $IMPL, $fh, \$bytes, length $bytes );
}

sub _syswrite_from_buffer
{
   my ( $IMPL, $fh, $bufref, $len ) = @_;

   $IMPL->syswrite( $fh, substr $$bufref, 0, $MAX_WRITELEN )->then( sub {
      my ( $written_len ) = @_;
      substr $$bufref, 0, $written_len, "";

      return Future->done( $len ) if !length $$bufref;
      return _syswrite_from_buffer( $IMPL, $fh, $bufref, $len );
   });
}

=head2 waitpid

   $wstatus = await Future::IO->waitpid( $pid );

I

Returns a L that will become done when the given child process
terminates. The future will yield the wait status of the child process.
This can be inspected by the usual bitshifting operations as per C<$?>:

   if( my $termsig = ($wstatus & 0x7f) ) {
      say "Terminated with signal $termsig";
   }
   else {
      my $exitcode = ($wstatus >> 8);
      say "Terminated with exit code $exitcode";
   }

=cut

sub waitpid
{
   shift;
   my ( $pid ) = @_;

   return ( $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl" )->waitpid( $pid );
}

=head2 override_impl

   Future::IO->override_impl( $impl );

Sets a new implementation for C, replacing the minimal default
internal implementation. This can either be a package name or an object
instance reference, but must provide the methods named above.

This method is intended to be called by event loops and other similar places,
to provide a better integration. Another way, which doesn't involve directly
depending on C or loading it, is to use the C<$IMPL> variable; see
below.

Can only be called once, and only if the default implementation is not in use,
therefore a module that wishes to override this ought to invoke it as soon as
possible on program startup, before any of the main C methods may
have been called.

=cut

my $overridden;

sub override_impl
{
   shift;
   croak "Future::IO implementation is already overridden" if defined $IMPL;
   croak "Future::IO implementation cannot be set once default is already in use"
      if @alarms or @readers;

   ( $IMPL ) = @_;
}

=head2 HAVE_MULTIPLE_FILEHANDLES

   $has = Future::IO->HAVE_MULTIPLE_FILEHANDLES;

I

Returns true if the underlying IO implementation actually supports multiple
filehandles. Most real support modules will return true here, but this returns
false for the internal minimal implementation.

=cut

sub HAVE_MULTIPLE_FILEHANDLES
{
   return ( $IMPL //= "Future::IO::_DefaultImpl" )->HAVE_MULTIPLE_FILEHANDLES;
}

package
   Future::IO::_DefaultImpl;
use base qw( Future::IO::ImplBase );
use Carp;

use Struct::Dumb qw( readonly_struct );
use Time::HiRes qw( time );

readonly_struct Alarm => [qw( time f )];

readonly_struct Reader => [qw( fh f )];
readonly_struct Writer => [qw( fh f )];

use constant HAVE_MULTIPLE_FILEHANDLES => 0;

sub alarm
{
   my $class = shift;
   return $class->_done_at( shift );
}

sub sleep
{
   my $class = shift;
   return $class->_done_at( time() + shift );
}

sub ready_for_read
{
   my $class = shift;
   my ( $fh ) = @_;

   croak "This implementation can only cope with a single pending filehandle in ->syread"
      if @readers and $readers[-1]->fh != $fh;

   my $f = Future::IO::_DefaultImpl::F->new;
   push @readers, Reader( $fh, $f );

   $f->on_cancel( sub {
      my $f = shift;

      my $idx = 0;
      $idx++ while $idx < @readers and $readers[$idx]->f != $f;

      splice @readers, $idx, 1, ();
   });

   return $f;
}

sub ready_for_write
{
   my $class = shift;
   my ( $fh ) = @_;

   croak "This implementation can only cope with a single pending filehandle in ->syswrite"
      if @writers and $writers[-1]->fh != $fh;

   my $f = Future::IO::_DefaultImpl::F->new;
   push @writers, Writer( $fh, $f );

   $f->on_cancel( sub {
      my $f = shift;

      my $idx = 0;
      $idx++ while $idx < @writers and $writers[$idx]->f != $f;

      splice @writers, $idx, 1, ();
   });

   return $f;
}

sub waitpid
{
   croak "This implementation cannot handle waitpid";
}

sub _done_at
{
   shift;
   my ( $time ) = @_;

   my $f = Future::IO::_DefaultImpl::F->new;

   # TODO: Binary search
   my $idx = 0;
   $idx++ while $idx < @alarms and $alarms[$idx]->time < $time;

   splice @alarms, $idx, 0, Alarm( $time, $f );

   $f->on_cancel( sub {
      my $self = shift;

      my $idx = 0;
      $idx++ while $idx < @alarms and $alarms[$idx]->f != $f;

      splice @alarms, $idx, 1, ();
   } );

   return $f;
}

package # hide
   Future::IO::_DefaultImpl::F;
use base qw( Future );
use Time::HiRes qw( time );

sub _await_once
{
   die "Cowardly refusing to sit idle and do nothing" unless @alarms || @readers || @writers;

   # If we always select() then problematic platforms like MSWin32 would
   # always break. Instead, we'll only select() if we're waiting on more than
   # one of alarm, reader, writer. If not we'll just presume the one operation
   # we're waiting for is definitely ready right now.
   my $do_select = @alarms || ( @readers && @writers );

   my $rready;
   my $wready;

redo_select:
   if( $do_select ) {
      my $rvec = '';
      vec( $rvec, $readers[0]->fh->fileno, 1 ) = 1 if @readers;

      my $wvec = '';
      vec( $wvec, $writers[0]->fh->fileno, 1 ) = 1 if @writers;

      my $maxwait;
      $maxwait = $alarms[0]->time - time() if @alarms;

      my $ret = select( $rvec, $wvec, undef, $maxwait );

      $rready = $ret && @readers && vec( $rvec, $readers[0]->fh->fileno, 1 );
      $wready = $ret && @writers && vec( $wvec, $writers[0]->fh->fileno, 1 );
   }
   else {
      $rready = !!@readers;
      $wready = !!@writers;
   }

   if( $rready ) {
      ( shift @readers )->f->done;
   }
   if( $wready ) {
      ( shift @writers )->f->done;
   }

   my $now = time();
   while( @alarms and $alarms[0]->time <= $now ) {
      ( shift @alarms )->f->done;
   }
}

=head2 await

   $f = $f->await;

I

Blocks until this future is ready (either by success or failure). Does not
throw an exception if failed.

=cut

sub await
{
   my $self = shift;
   _await_once until $self->is_ready;
   return $self;
}

=head1 THE C<$IMPL> VARIABLE

I

As an alternative to setting an implementation by using L, a
package variable is also available that allows modules such as event systems
to opportunistically provide an implementation without needing to depend on
the module, or loading it C. Simply directly set that package
variable to the name of an implementing package or an object instance.

Additionally, implementors may use a name within the C
namespace, suffixed by the name of their event system.

For example, something like the following code arrangement is recommended.

   package Future::IO::Impl::BananaLoop;

   {
      no warnings 'once';
      ( $Future::IO::IMPL //= __PACKAGE__ ) eq __PACKAGE__ or
         warn "Unable to set Future::IO implementation to " . __PACKAGE__ .
            " as it is already $Future::IO::IMPL\n";
   }

   sub sleep
   {
      ...
   }

   sub sysread
   {
      ...
   }

   sub syswrite
   {
      ...
   }

   sub waitpid
   {
      ...
   }

Optionally, you can also implement L and
L:

   sub sysread_exactly
   {
      ...
   }

   sub syswrite_exactly
   {
      ...
   }

If not, they will be emulated by C itself, making multiple calls
to the non-C<_exactly> versions.

=head1 AUTHOR

Paul Evans

=cut

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