utilities/src/workerthread.cpp

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#include "workerthread.h"

namespace farsa {

WorkerThread::WorkerThread( QObject* parent ) :
    QThread(parent),
    operations(),
    mutex(),
    waitForOperationsToDo(),
    operation(NULL),
    quitRequested(false),
    exceptions() {
}

WorkerThread::~WorkerThread() {
    foreach (BaseException *e, exceptions) {
        delete e;
    }
}

void WorkerThread::addOperation( ThreadOperation* newOperation ) {
    mutex.lock();
    operations.enqueue( newOperation );
    mutex.unlock();
    if ( operations.size() == 1 ) {
        // wake the run thread because now there is something to do
        waitForOperationsToDo.wakeAll();
    }
}

void WorkerThread::stopCurrentOperation() {
    mutex.lock();
    if ( operation ) {
        operation->stop();
    }
    mutex.unlock();
}

void WorkerThread::run() {
    forever {
        mutex.lock();
        // We have to check quitRequested here (not only after waitForOperationsToDo.wait()) because quit() can
        // be called before run() starts. In that case quitRequested is already true, but we lost the "signal"
        // that should wake us when on the wait condition and so we would sleep indefinitely
        if ( quitRequested ) {
            mutex.unlock();
            return;
        }
        if ( operations.size() == 0 ) {
            // wait the adding of an operation
            waitForOperationsToDo.wait( &mutex );
        }
        if ( quitRequested ) {
            mutex.unlock();
            return;
        }
        operation = operations.dequeue();
        mutex.unlock();
        try {
            operation->run();
        } catch (BaseException& e) {
            BaseException* cloned = e.clone();
            exceptions.append(cloned);

            emit exceptionDuringOperation(cloned);
        } catch (...) {
            UnknownException* e = new UnknownException();
            exceptions.append(e);

            emit exceptionDuringOperation(e);
        }
        mutex.lock();
        delete operation;
        operation = NULL;
        mutex.unlock();
        if ( quitRequested ) {
            return;
        }
    }
}

void WorkerThread::quit() {
    mutex.lock();
    quitRequested = true;
    mutex.unlock();
    stopCurrentOperation();
    waitForOperationsToDo.wakeAll();
    wait();
}

} // end namespace farsa