Greetings Veltro,
Yet another interesting use case :)
Q & A
In case objects are shared that do not have STORE and FETCH methods, and they have nested methods and objects, does this mean that the methods cannot be reached and the objects don't get to be shared?
Is there a way to 'get' the nestedFoo in shared context?
Is there a way to execute task for Foo without export?
For shared objects, think of them as having an entry point into the shared-manager process. Important for shared-objects, in the case of MCE::Shared, is to pass arguments instead of dereferencing. Please note that calling a method on a shared-object is executed by the shared-manager where the data resides. For this use case, embed the shared-data object inside the class. That will allow workers to run in parallel and update shared-data accordingly.
Demo 1: via Perl-like behavior
Shown with mutex in the event multiple workers update the same key. Like in the prior post, the reason is because ++ involves two trips to the shared-manager process { FETCH and STORE }. I added an export routine to filter out the mutex handle.
use strict;
use warnings;
package Foo {
use MCE::Shared ;
sub new {
my $class = shift ;
my $this = { } ;
tie my %data, 'MCE::Shared', _var => 1 ;
$this->{ _SHARED_DATA } = \%data ;
$this->{ _MUTEX } = MCE::Mutex->new ;
bless $this, $class ;
}
sub task {
# Long operation task Foo ~ 2 seconds
my $this = shift ;
print "Starting task Foo for $_[0]\n" ;
sleep 2 ;
$this->{ _MUTEX }->enter( sub {
++$this->{ _SHARED_DATA }{ _var } ;
}) ;
print "Finished task Foo for $_[0]\n" ;
}
sub export {
my $this = shift ;
my %clone = %{ $this } ;
delete $clone{ _MUTEX } ;
return \%clone ;
}
} ;
package Bar {
use MCE::Shared ;
use Scalar::Util 'blessed' ;
sub new {
my $class = shift ;
# This is not very realistic code.
# here it is just used as an
# example to create an object that
# contains a nested object
my $this = { nestedFoo => $_[0] } ;
tie my %data, 'MCE::Shared', _var => 1 ;
$this->{ _SHARED_DATA } = \%data ;
$this->{ _MUTEX } = MCE::Mutex->new ;
bless $this, $class ;
}
sub task {
my $this = shift ;
if ( @_ == 2 ) {
$this->{ $_[0] }->task( $_[1] ) ;
return ;
}
# Long operation task Bar ~ 6 seconds
print "Starting task Bar for $_[0]\n" ;
sleep 6 ;
$this->{ _MUTEX }->enter( sub {
++$this->{ _SHARED_DATA }{ _var } ;
}) ;
print "Finished task Bar for $_[0]\n" ;
}
sub export {
my $this = shift ;
my %clone = %{ $this } ;
delete $clone{ _MUTEX } ;
for ( keys %clone ) {
next unless blessed( $clone{ $_ } ) ;
next unless $clone{ $_ }->can('export') ;
$clone{ $_ } = $clone{ $_ }->export ;
}
return \%clone ;
}
} ;
package main ;
use MCE::Hobo ;
use Data::Dumper ;
my $foo = Foo->new ;
my $bar = Bar->new( $foo ) ;
print Dumper( $bar->export ), "\n" ;
mce_async { $bar->task('Bar') } ;
mce_async { $bar->task('nestedFoo', 'Foo') } ;
MCE::Hobo->waitall ;
print "\n", Dumper( $bar->export ), "\n" ;
Demo 2: using the OO interface
This eliminates the mutex at the application level. Here, the export routine calls export on the shared-data object.
use strict;
use warnings;
package Foo {
use MCE::Shared ;
sub new {
my $class = shift ;
my $this = { } ;
$this->{ _SHARED_DATA } = MCE::Shared->hash( _var => 1 ) ;
bless $this, $class ;
}
sub task {
# Long operation task Foo ~ 2 seconds
my $this = shift ;
print "Starting task Foo for $_[0]\n" ;
sleep 2 ;
$this->{ _SHARED_DATA }->incr('_var') ;
print "Finished task Foo for $_[0]\n" ;
}
sub export {
my $this = shift ;
my %clone = %{ $this } ;
$clone{ _SHARED_DATA } = $this->{ _SHARED_DATA }->export(
{ unbless => 1 }
) ;
return \%clone ;
}
} ;
package Bar {
use MCE::Shared ;
use Scalar::Util 'blessed' ;
sub new {
my $class = shift ;
# This is not very realistic code.
# here it is just used as an
# example to create an object that
# contains a nested object
my $this = { nestedFoo => $_[0] } ;
$this->{ _SHARED_DATA } = MCE::Shared->hash( _var => 1 ) ;
bless $this, $class ;
}
sub task {
my $this = shift ;
if ( @_ == 2 ) {
$this->{ $_[0] }->task( $_[1] ) ;
return ;
}
# Long operation task Bar ~ 6 seconds
print "Starting task Bar for $_[0]\n" ;
sleep 6 ;
$this->{ _SHARED_DATA }->incr('_var') ;
print "Finished task Bar for $_[0]\n" ;
}
sub export {
my $this = shift ;
my %clone = %{ $this } ;
for ( keys %clone ) {
next unless blessed( $clone{ $_ } ) ;
next unless $clone{ $_ }->can('export') ;
$clone{ $_ } = $clone{ $_ }->export(
{ unbless => 1 }
) ;
}
return \%clone ;
}
} ;
package main ;
use MCE::Hobo ;
use Data::Dumper ;
my $foo = Foo->new ;
my $bar = Bar->new( $foo ) ;
print Dumper( $bar->export ), "\n" ;
mce_async { $bar->task('Bar') } ;
mce_async { $bar->task('nestedFoo', 'Foo') } ;
MCE::Hobo->waitall ;
print "\n", Dumper( $bar->export ), "\n" ;
Output
$VAR1 = {
'_SHARED_DATA' => {
'_var' => 1
},
'nestedFoo' => {
'_SHARED_DATA' => {
'_var' => 1
}
}
};
Starting task Bar for Bar
Starting task Foo for Foo
Finished task Foo for Foo
Finished task Bar for Bar
$VAR1 = {
'_SHARED_DATA' => {
'_var' => 2
},
'nestedFoo' => {
'_SHARED_DATA' => {
'_var' => 2
}
}
};
Regards, Mario
