Link Database

The darc project utilises file system based database to provide tele-process communication.

Note

In its first implementation, the darc project used multiprocessing.Queue to support such communication. However, as noticed when runtime, the multiprocessing.Queue object will be much affected by the lack of memory.

There will be two databases, both locate at root of the data storage path PATH_DB:

• the requests database – queue_requests.txt

• the selenium database – queue_selenium.txt

At runtime, after reading such database, darc will keep a backup of the database with .tmp suffix to its file extension.

darc.db.load_requests(check=False)

Load link from the requests database.

After loading, darc will backup the original database queue_requests.txt as queue_requests.txt.tmp and empty the loaded database.

Parameters

check (bool) – If perform checks on loaded links, default to CHECK.

Returns

List of loaded links from the requests database.

Return type

List[str]

Note

Lines start with # will be considered as comments. Empty lines and comment lines will be ignored when loading.

At runtime, the function will load links with maximum number at MAX_POOL to limit the memory usage.

darc.db.load_selenium(check=False)

Load link from the selenium database.

After loading, darc will backup the original database queue_selenium.txt as queue_selenium.txt.tmp and empty the loaded database.

Parameters

check (bool) – If perform checks on loaded links, default to CHECK.

Returns

List of loaded links from the selenium database.

Return type

List[str]

Note

Lines start with # will be considered as comments. Empty lines and comment lines will be ignored when loading.

At runtime, the function will load links with maximum number at MAX_POOL to limit the memory usage.

darc.db.save_requests(entries, single=False)

Save link to the requests database.

Parameters

• entries (Iterable[str]) – Links to be added to the requests database. It can be either an iterable of links, or a single link string (if single set as True).

• single (bool) – Indicate if entries is an iterable of links or a single link string.

darc.db.save_selenium(entries, single=False)

Save link to the selenium database.

Parameters

• entries (Iterable[str]) – Links to be added to the selenium database. It can be either an iterable of links, or a single link string (if single set as True).

• single (bool) – Indicate if entries is an iterable of links or a single link string.

darc.db.QR_LOCK: multiprocessing.Lock

I/O lock for the requests database _queue_requests.txt.

See also

• darc.db.save_requests()

darc.db.QS_LOCK: Union[multiprocessing.Lock, threading.Lock, contextlib.nullcontext]

I/O lock for the selenium database _queue_selenium.txt.

If FLAG_MP is True, it will be an instance of multiprocessing.Lock. If FLAG_TH is True, it will be an instance of threading.Lock. If none above, it will be an instance of contextlib.nullcontext.

See also

• darc.db.save_selenium()

• darc.const.FLAG_MP

• darc.const.FLAG_TH

darc.db.MAX_POOL: int

Default

1_000

Environ

DARC_MAX_POOL

Maximum number of links loading from the database.

Note

If is an infinit inf, no limit will be applied.