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TaskWrapper.m
/* |
File: TaskWrapper.m |
Description: This is the implementation of a generalized process handling class that that makes asynchronous interaction with an NSTask easier. Feel free to make use of this code in your own applications. TaskWrapper objects are one-shot (since NSTask is one-shot); if you need to run a task more than once, destroy/create new TaskWrapper objects. |
Author: EP & MCF |
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Version History: 1.1/1.2 released to fix a few bugs (not always removing the notification center, |
forgetting to release in some cases) |
1.3 fixes a code error (no incorrect behavior) where we were checking for |
if (task) in the -getData: notification when task would always be true. |
Now we just do the right thing in all cases without the superfluous if check. |
*/ |
#import "TaskWrapper.h" |
@implementation TaskWrapper |
// Do basic initialization |
- (id)initWithController:(id <TaskWrapperController>)cont arguments:(NSArray *)args |
{ |
self = [super init]; |
controller = cont; |
arguments = [args retain]; |
return self; |
} |
// tear things down |
- (void)dealloc |
{ |
[self stopProcess]; |
[arguments release]; |
[task release]; |
[super dealloc]; |
} |
// Here's where we actually kick off the process via an NSTask. |
- (void) startProcess |
{ |
// We first let the controller know that we are starting |
[controller processStarted]; |
task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; |
// The output of stdout and stderr is sent to a pipe so that we can catch it later |
// and send it along to the controller; notice that we don't bother to do anything with stdin, |
// so this class isn't as useful for a task that you need to send info to, not just receive. |
[task setStandardOutput: [NSPipe pipe]]; |
[task setStandardError: [task standardOutput]]; |
// The path to the binary is the first argument that was passed in |
[task setLaunchPath: [arguments objectAtIndex:0]]; |
// The rest of the task arguments are just grabbed from the array |
[task setArguments: [arguments subarrayWithRange: NSMakeRange (1, ([arguments count] - 1))]]; |
// Here we register as an observer of the NSFileHandleReadCompletionNotification, which lets |
// us know when there is data waiting for us to grab it in the task's file handle (the pipe |
// to which we connected stdout and stderr above). -getData: will be called when there |
// is data waiting. The reason we need to do this is because if the file handle gets |
// filled up, the task will block waiting to send data and we'll never get anywhere. |
// So we have to keep reading data from the file handle as we go. |
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self |
selector:@selector(getData:) |
name: NSFileHandleReadCompletionNotification |
object: [[task standardOutput] fileHandleForReading]]; |
// We tell the file handle to go ahead and read in the background asynchronously, and notify |
// us via the callback registered above when we signed up as an observer. The file handle will |
// send a NSFileHandleReadCompletionNotification when it has data that is available. |
[[[task standardOutput] fileHandleForReading] readInBackgroundAndNotify]; |
// launch the task asynchronously |
[task launch]; |
} |
// If the task ends, there is no more data coming through the file handle even when the notification is |
// sent, or the process object is released, then this method is called. |
- (void) stopProcess |
{ |
/* // we tell the controller that we finished, via the callback, and then blow away our connection |
// to the controller. NSTasks are one-shot (not for reuse), so we might as well be too. |
[controller processFinished]; |
controller = nil;*/ |
NSData *data; |
// It is important to clean up after ourselves so that we don't leave potentially deallocated |
// objects as observers in the notification center; this can lead to crashes. |
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:NSFileHandleReadCompletionNotification object: [[task standardOutput] fileHandleForReading]]; |
// Make sure the task has actually stopped! |
[task terminate]; |
while ((data = [[[task standardOutput] fileHandleForReading] availableData]) && [data length]) |
{ |
[controller appendOutput: [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease]]; |
} |
// we tell the controller that we finished, via the callback, and then blow away our connection |
// to the controller. NSTasks are one-shot (not for reuse), so we might as well be too. |
[controller processFinished]; |
controller = nil; |
} |
// This method is called asynchronously when data is available from the task's file handle. |
// We just pass the data along to the controller as an NSString. |
- (void) getData: (NSNotification *)aNotification |
{ |
NSData *data = [[aNotification userInfo] objectForKey:NSFileHandleNotificationDataItem]; |
// If the length of the data is zero, then the task is basically over - there is nothing |
// more to get from the handle so we may as well shut down. |
if ([data length]) |
{ |
// Send the data on to the controller; we can't just use +stringWithUTF8String: here |
// because -[data bytes] is not necessarily a properly terminated string. |
// -initWithData:encoding: on the other hand checks -[data length] |
[controller appendOutput: [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease]]; |
} else { |
// We're finished here |
[self stopProcess]; |
} |
// we need to schedule the file handle go read more data in the background again. |
[[aNotification object] readInBackgroundAndNotify]; |
} |
@end |
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