From 7ad883b4f66f2fe4403238607ff6969b1b06ef22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Bayne <mdb@threerings.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:00:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added the ability to post runnable units of executable code
 onto the distributed object manager thread. These are slipped into the normal
 event processing loop.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/narya/trunk@222 542714f4-19e9-0310-aa3c-eee0fc999fb1
---
 .../presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java   | 35 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java
index 5d99cca95..7e28fcb36 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 //
-// $Id: PresentsDObjectMgr.java,v 1.13 2001/08/08 21:56:47 mdb Exp $
+// $Id: PresentsDObjectMgr.java,v 1.14 2001/08/11 01:00:26 mdb Exp $
 
 package com.threerings.cocktail.cher.server;
 
@@ -84,6 +84,19 @@ public class CherDObjectMgr implements DObjectManager
         // nothing to do here, our objects live forever!
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Posts a self-contained unit of code that should be run on the
+     * distributed object manager thread at the next available
+     * opportunity. The code will be queued up with the rest of the events
+     * and invoked in turn. Like event processing code, the code should
+     * not take long to complete and should <em>definitely</em> not block.
+     */
+    public void postUnit (Runnable unit)
+    {
+        // just append it to the queue
+        _evqueue.append(unit);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns the object in the object table with the specified oid or
      * null if no object has that oid. Be sure only to call this function
@@ -107,8 +120,24 @@ public class CherDObjectMgr implements DObjectManager
         Log.info("DOMGR running.");
 
         while (isRunning()) {
-            // pop the next event off the queue
-            DEvent event = (DEvent)_evqueue.get();
+            // pop the next unit off the queue
+            Object unit = _evqueue.get();
+
+            // if this is a runnable, it's just an executable unit that
+            // should be invoked
+            if (unit instanceof Runnable) {
+                try {
+                    ((Runnable)unit).run();
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    Log.warning("Execution unit failed [unit=" + unit + "].");
+                    Log.logStackTrace(e);
+                }
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // otherwise it's an event, so we do more complicated
+            // processing
+            DEvent event = (DEvent)unit;
 
             // look up the target object
             DObject target = (DObject)_objects.get(event.getTargetOid());