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4 Licensed under GNU General Public License v2
5 * (c) 2013, Alexander Yakushev
9 -- Asynchronous io.popen for Awesome WM.
12 -- asyncshell.request('wscript -Kiev', function(f) wwidget.text = f:read("*l") end)
14 -- wwidget.text = asyncshell.demand('wscript -Kiev', 5):read("*l") or "Error"
16 local spawn = require('awful.util').spawn
19 asyncshell.request_table = {}
20 asyncshell.id_counter = 0
21 asyncshell.folder = "/tmp/asyncshell"
22 asyncshell.file_template = asyncshell.folder .. '/req'
24 -- Create a directory for asynchell response files
25 os.execute("mkdir -p " .. asyncshell.folder)
27 -- Returns next tag - unique identifier of the request
28 local function next_id()
29 asyncshell.id_counter = (asyncshell.id_counter + 1) % 100000
30 return asyncshell.id_counter
33 -- Sends an asynchronous request for an output of the shell command.
34 -- @param command Command to be executed and taken output from
35 -- @param callback Function to be called when the command finishes
37 function asyncshell.request(command, callback)
39 local tmpfname = asyncshell.file_template .. id
40 asyncshell.request_table[id] = {callback = callback}
42 string.format("sh -c '%s > %s; " ..
43 'echo "asyncshell.deliver(%s)" | ' ..
44 "awesome-client' 2> /dev/null",
45 string.gsub(command, "'", "'\\''"), tmpfname,
51 -- Calls the remembered callback function on the output of the shell
53 -- @param id Request ID
54 -- @param output The output file of the shell command to be delievered
55 function asyncshell.deliver(id)
56 if asyncshell.request_table[id] and
57 asyncshell.request_table[id].callback then
58 local output = io.open(asyncshell.file_template .. id, 'r')
59 asyncshell.request_table[id].callback(output)
63 -- Sends a synchronous request for an output of the command. Waits for
64 -- the output, but if the given timeout expires returns nil.
65 -- @param command Command to be executed and taken output from
66 -- @param timeout Maximum amount of time to wait for the result
67 -- @return File handler on success, nil otherwise
68 function asyncshell.demand(command, timeout)
70 local tmpfname = asyncshell.file_template .. id
71 local f = io.popen(string.format("(%s > %s; echo asyncshell_done) & " ..
72 "(sleep %s; echo asynchell_timeout)",
73 command, tmpfname, timeout))
74 local result = f:read("*line")
75 if result == "asyncshell_done" then
76 return io.open(tmpfname)