Network – network utility module

In this module you’ll find all the network related implementation

New in version 0.6: The Network module.

class Network.UDPThreadBroadcastClient(host, port, target_port)

The Broadcast UDP client thread class.

This class is a thread to serve as Pyevolve client on the UDP datagrams, it is used to send data over network lan/wan.

Example:

>>> s = Network.UDPThreadClient('192.168.0.2', 1500, 666)
>>> s.setData("Test data")
>>> s.start()
>>> s.join()

Parameters:

• host – the hostname to bind the socket on sender (this is NOT the target host)
• port – the sender port (this is NOT the target port)
• target_port – the destination port target

close()

Close the internal socket

getData()

Get the data to send

Return type:data to send

getSentBytes()

Returns the number of sent bytes. The use of this method makes sense when you already have sent the data

Return type:sent bytes

run()

Method called when you call .start() of the thread

send()

Broadcasts the data

setData(data)

Set the data to send

Parameters:

• data – the data to send

class Network.UDPThreadServer(host, port, poolSize=10, timeout=3)

The UDP server thread class.

This class is a thread to serve as Pyevolve server on the UDP datagrams, it is used to receive data from network lan/wan.

Example:

>>> s = UDPThreadServer("192.168.0.2", 666, 10)
>>> s.start()
>>> s.shutdown()

Parameters:

• host – the host to bind the server
• port – the server port to bind
• poolSize – the size of the server pool
• timeout – the socket timeout

Note

this thread implements a pool to keep the received data, the poolSize parameter specifies how much individuals we must keep on the pool until the popPool method is called; when the pool is full, the sever will discard the received individuals.

close()

Closes the internal socket

getBufferSize()

Gets the current receive buffer size

Return type:integer

getData()

Calls the socket recvfrom method and waits for the data, when the data is received, the method will return a tuple with the IP of the sender and the data received. When a timeout exception occurs, the method return None.

Return type:tuple (sender ip, data) or None when timeout exception

isReady()

Returns True when there is data on the pool or False when not

Return type:boolean

poolLength()

Returns the size of the pool

Return type:integer

popPool()

Return the last data received on the pool

Return type:object

run()

Called when the thread is started by the user. This method is the main of the thread, when called, it will enter in loop to wait data or shutdown when needed.

setBufferSize(size)

Sets the receive buffer size

Parameters:

• size – integer

shutdown()

Shutdown the server thread, when called, this method will stop the thread on the next socket timeout

class Network.UDPThreadUnicastClient(host, port, pool_size=10, timeout=0.5)

The Unicast UDP client thread class.

This class is a thread to serve as Pyevolve client on the UDP datagrams, it is used to send data over network lan/wan.

Example:

>>> s = Network.UDPThreadClient('192.168.0.2', 1500)
>>> s.setData("Test data")
>>> s.setTargetHost('192.168.0.50', 666)
>>> s.start()
>>> s.join()

Parameters:

• host – the hostname to bind the socket on sender (this is not the target host)
• port – the sender port (this is not the target port)
• pool_size – the size of send pool
• timeout – the time interval to check if the client have data to send

addData(data)

Set the data to send

Parameters:

• data – the data to send

close()

Close the internal socket

isReady()

Returns True when there is data on the pool or False when not

Return type:boolean

poolLength()

Returns the size of the pool

Return type:integer

popPool()

Return the last data received on the pool

Return type:object

run()

Method called when you call .start() of the thread

send(data)

Send the data

Parameters:

• data – the data to send

Return type:

bytes sent to each destination

setMultipleTargetHost(address_list)

Sets multiple host/port targets, the destinations

Parameters:

• address_list – a list with tuples (ip, port)

setTargetHost(host, port)

Set the host/port of the target, the destination

Parameters:

• host – the target host
• port – the target port

Note

the host will be ignored when using broadcast mode

shutdown()

Shutdown the server thread, when called, this method will stop the thread on the next socket timeout

Network.getMachineIP()

Return all the IPs from current machine.

Example:

>>> Util.getMachineIP()
['200.12.124.181', '192.168.0.1']      

Return type:a python list with the string IPs

Network.pickleAndCompress(obj, level=9)

Pickles the object and compress the dumped string with zlib

Parameters:

• obj – the object to be pickled
• level – the compression level, 9 is the best and -1 is to not compress

Network.unpickleAndDecompress(obj_dump, decompress=True)

Decompress a zlib compressed string and unpickle the data

Parameters:

• obj – the object to be decompressend and unpickled