Class DRb::DRbServer
In: lib/drb/invokemethod.rb
lib/drb/drb.rb
Parent: Object

Class representing a drb server instance.

A DRbServer must be running in the local process before any incoming dRuby calls can be accepted, or any local objects can be passed as dRuby references to remote processes, even if those local objects are never actually called remotely. You do not need to start a DRbServer in the local process if you are only making outgoing dRuby calls passing marshalled parameters.

Unless multiple servers are being used, the local DRbServer is normally started by calling DRb.start_service.

Methods

Classes and Modules

Module DRb::DRbServer::InvokeMethod18Mixin

Constants

INSECURE_METHOD = [ :__send__   List of insecure methods.

These methods are not callable via dRuby.

Attributes

config  [R]  The configuration of this DRbServer
front  [R]  The front object of the DRbServer.

This object receives remote method calls made on the server‘s URI alone, with an object id.

safe_level  [R] 
thread  [R]  The main thread of this DRbServer.

This is the thread that listens for and accepts connections from clients, not that handles each client‘s request-response session.

uri  [R]  The URI of this DRbServer.

Public Class methods

Set the default value for the :acl option.

See new(). The initial default value is nil.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1246
1246:     def self.default_acl(acl)
1247:       @@acl = acl
1248:     end

Set the default value for the :argc_limit option.

See new(). The initial default value is 256.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1232
1232:     def self.default_argc_limit(argc)
1233:       @@argc_limit = argc
1234:     end

Set the default value for the :id_conv option.

See new(). The initial default value is a DRbIdConv instance.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1253
1253:     def self.default_id_conv(idconv)
1254:       @@idconv = idconv
1255:     end

Set the default value for the :load_limit option.

See new(). The initial default value is 25 MB.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1239
1239:     def self.default_load_limit(sz)
1240:       @@load_limit = sz
1241:     end

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1257
1257:     def self.default_safe_level(level)
1258:       @@safe_level = level
1259:     end

Create a new DRbServer instance.

uri is the URI to bind to. This is normally of the form ‘druby://<hostname>:<port>’ where <hostname> is a hostname of the local machine. If nil, then the system‘s default hostname will be bound to, on a port selected by the system; these value can be retrieved from the uri attribute. ‘druby:’ specifies the default dRuby transport protocol: another protocol, such as ‘drbunix:’, can be specified instead.

front is the front object for the server, that is, the object to which remote method calls on the server will be passed. If nil, then the server will not accept remote method calls.

If config_or_acl is a hash, it is the configuration to use for this server. The following options are recognised:

:idconv :an id-to-object conversion object. This defaults to an instance of the class DRb::DRbIdConv.
:verbose :if true, all unsuccessful remote calls on objects in the server will be logged to $stdout. false by default.
:tcp_acl :the access control list for this server. See the ACL class from the main dRuby distribution.
:load_limit :the maximum message size in bytes accepted by the server. Defaults to 25 MB (26214400).
:argc_limit :the maximum number of arguments to a remote method accepted by the server. Defaults to 256.

The default values of these options can be modified on a class-wide basis by the class methods default_argc_limit, default_load_limit, default_acl, default_id_conv, and verbose=

If config_or_acl is not a hash, but is not nil, it is assumed to be the access control list for this server. See the :tcp_acl option for more details.

If no other server is currently set as the primary server, this will become the primary server.

The server will immediately start running in its own thread.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1328
1328:     def initialize(uri=nil, front=nil, config_or_acl=nil)
1329:       if Hash === config_or_acl
1330:         config = config_or_acl.dup
1331:       else
1332:         acl = config_or_acl || @@acl
1333:         config = {
1334:           :tcp_acl => acl
1335:         }
1336:       end
1337: 
1338:       @config = self.class.make_config(config)
1339: 
1340:       @protocol = DRbProtocol.open_server(uri, @config)
1341:       @uri = @protocol.uri
1342: 
1343:       @front = front
1344:       @idconv = @config[:idconv]
1345:       @safe_level = @config[:safe_level]
1346: 
1347:       @grp = ThreadGroup.new
1348:       @thread = run
1349: 
1350:       DRb.regist_server(self)
1351:     end

Get the default value of the :verbose option.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1269
1269:     def self.verbose
1270:       @@verbose
1271:     end

Set the default value of the :verbose option.

See new(). The initial default value is false.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1264
1264:     def self.verbose=(on)
1265:       @@verbose = on
1266:     end

Public Instance methods

Is this server alive?

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1385
1385:     def alive?
1386:       @thread.alive?
1387:     end

Check that a method is callable via dRuby.

obj is the object we want to invoke the method on. msg_id is the method name, as a Symbol.

If the method is an insecure method (see insecure_method?) a SecurityError is thrown. If the method is private or undefined, a NameError is thrown.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1468
1468:     def check_insecure_method(obj, msg_id)
1469:       return true if Proc === obj && msg_id == :__drb_yield
1470:       raise(ArgumentError, "#{any_to_s(msg_id)} is not a symbol") unless Symbol == msg_id.class
1471:       raise(SecurityError, "insecure method `#{msg_id}'") if insecure_method?(msg_id)
1472:       
1473:       if obj.private_methods.include?(msg_id.to_s)
1474:         desc = any_to_s(obj)
1475:         raise NoMethodError, "private method `#{msg_id}' called for #{desc}"
1476:       elsif obj.protected_methods.include?(msg_id.to_s)
1477:         desc = any_to_s(obj)
1478:         raise NoMethodError, "protected method `#{msg_id}' called for #{desc}"
1479:       else
1480:         true
1481:       end
1482:     end

Stop this server.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1390
1390:     def stop_service
1391:       DRb.remove_server(self)
1392:       if  Thread.current['DRb'] && Thread.current['DRb']['server'] == self
1393:         Thread.current['DRb']['stop_service'] = true
1394:       else
1395:         @thread.kill
1396:       end
1397:     end

Convert a local object to a dRuby reference.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1407
1407:     def to_id(obj)
1408:       return nil if obj.__id__ == front.__id__
1409:       @idconv.to_id(obj)
1410:     end

Convert a dRuby reference to the local object it refers to.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1400
1400:     def to_obj(ref)
1401:       return front if ref.nil?
1402:       return front[ref.to_s] if DRbURIOption === ref
1403:       @idconv.to_obj(ref)
1404:     end

Get whether the server is in verbose mode.

In verbose mode, failed calls are logged to stdout.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1382
1382:     def verbose; @config[:verbose]; end

Set whether to operate in verbose mode.

In verbose mode, failed calls are logged to stdout.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1377
1377:     def verbose=(v); @config[:verbose]=v; end

Private Instance methods

Coerce an object to a string, providing our own representation if to_s is not defined for the object.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1454
1454:     def any_to_s(obj)
1455:       obj.to_s + ":#{obj.class}"
1456:     rescue
1457:       sprintf("#<%s:0x%lx>", obj.class, obj.__id__)      
1458:     end

Has a method been included in the list of insecure methods?

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1448
1448:     def insecure_method?(msg_id)
1449:       INSECURE_METHOD.include?(msg_id)
1450:     end

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1413
1413:     def kill_sub_thread
1414:       Thread.new do
1415:         grp = ThreadGroup.new
1416:         grp.add(Thread.current)
1417:         list = @grp.list
1418:         while list.size > 0
1419:           list.each do |th|
1420:             th.kill if th.alive?
1421:           end
1422:           list = @grp.list
1423:         end
1424:       end
1425:     end

The main loop performed by a DRbServer‘s internal thread.

Accepts a connection from a client, and starts up its own thread to handle it. This thread loops, receiving requests from the client, invoking them on a local object, and returning responses, until the client closes the connection or a local method call fails.

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1581
1581:     def main_loop
1582:       Thread.start(@protocol.accept) do |client|
1583:         @grp.add Thread.current
1584:         Thread.current['DRb'] = { 'client' => client ,
1585:                                   'server' => self }
1586:         loop do
1587:           begin
1588:             succ = false
1589:             invoke_method = InvokeMethod.new(self, client)
1590:             succ, result = invoke_method.perform
1591:             if !succ && verbose
1592:               p result
1593:               result.backtrace.each do |x|
1594:                 puts x
1595:               end
1596:             end
1597:             client.send_reply(succ, result) rescue nil
1598:           ensure
1599:             client.close unless succ
1600:             if Thread.current['DRb']['stop_service']
1601:               Thread.new { stop_service }
1602:             end
1603:             break unless succ
1604:           end
1605:         end
1606:       end
1607:     end

[Source]

      # File lib/drb/drb.rb, line 1427
1427:     def run
1428:       Thread.start do
1429:         begin
1430:           while true
1431:             main_loop
1432:           end
1433:         ensure
1434:           @protocol.close if @protocol
1435:           kill_sub_thread
1436:         end
1437:       end
1438:     end

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