IPython/html/widgets/widget.py

"""Base Widget class.  Allows user to create widgets in the back-end that render
in the IPython notebook front-end.
"""
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2013, the IPython Development Team.
#
# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
#
# The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Imports
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
from contextlib import contextmanager
import collections

from IPython.core.getipython import get_ipython
from IPython.kernel.comm import Comm
from IPython.config import LoggingConfigurable
from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode, Dict, Instance, Bool, List, \
    CaselessStrEnum, Tuple, CUnicode, Int, Set
from IPython.utils.py3compat import string_types

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Classes
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
class CallbackDispatcher(LoggingConfigurable):
    """A structure for registering and running callbacks"""
    callbacks = List()
    
    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """Call all of the registered callbacks."""
        value = None
        for callback in self.callbacks:
            try:
                local_value = callback(*args, **kwargs)
            except Exception as e:
                ip = get_ipython()
                if ip is None:
                    self.log.warn("Exception in callback %s: %s", callback, e, exc_info=True)
                else:
                    ip.showtraceback()
            else:
                value = local_value if local_value is not None else value
        return value

    def register_callback(self, callback, remove=False):
        """(Un)Register a callback

        Parameters
        ----------
        callback: method handle
            Method to be registered or unregistered.
        remove=False: bool
            Whether to unregister the callback."""
        
        # (Un)Register the callback.
        if remove and callback in self.callbacks:
            self.callbacks.remove(callback)
        elif not remove and callback not in self.callbacks:
            self.callbacks.append(callback)

def _show_traceback(method):
    """decorator for showing tracebacks in IPython"""
    def m(self, *args, **kwargs):
        try:
            return(method(self, *args, **kwargs))
        except Exception as e:
            ip = get_ipython()
            if ip is None:
                self.log.warn("Exception in widget method %s: %s", method, e, exc_info=True)
            else:
                ip.showtraceback()
    return m

class Widget(LoggingConfigurable):
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Class attributes
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    _widget_construction_callback = None
    widgets = {}

    @staticmethod
    def on_widget_constructed(callback):
        """Registers a callback to be called when a widget is constructed.

        The callback must have the following signature:
        callback(widget)"""
        Widget._widget_construction_callback = callback

    @staticmethod
    def _call_widget_constructed(widget):
        """Static method, called when a widget is constructed."""
        if Widget._widget_construction_callback is not None and callable(Widget._widget_construction_callback):
            Widget._widget_construction_callback(widget)

    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Traits
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    _model_name = Unicode('WidgetModel', help="""Name of the backbone model 
        registered in the front-end to create and sync this widget with.""")
    _view_name = Unicode('WidgetView', help="""Default view registered in the front-end
        to use to represent the widget.""", sync=True)
    comm = Instance('IPython.kernel.comm.Comm')
    
    msg_throttle = Int(3, sync=True, help="""Maximum number of msgs the 
        front-end can send before receiving an idle msg from the back-end.""")
    
    keys = List()
    def _keys_default(self):
        return [name for name in self.traits(sync=True)]
    
    _property_lock = Tuple((None, None))
    _send_state_lock = Int(0)
    _states_to_send = Set(allow_none=False)
    _display_callbacks = Instance(CallbackDispatcher, ())
    _msg_callbacks = Instance(CallbackDispatcher, ())
    
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # (Con/de)structor
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        """Public constructor"""
        self._model_id = kwargs.pop('model_id', None)
        super(Widget, self).__init__(**kwargs)

        self.on_trait_change(self._handle_property_changed, self.keys)
        Widget._call_widget_constructed(self)
        self.open()

    def __del__(self):
        """Object disposal"""
        self.close()

    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Properties
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------

    def open(self):
        """Open a comm to the frontend if one isn't already open."""
        if self.comm is None:
            if self._model_id is None:
                self.comm = Comm(target_name=self._model_name)
                self._model_id = self.model_id
            else:
                self.comm = Comm(target_name=self._model_name, comm_id=self._model_id)
            self.comm.on_msg(self._handle_msg)
            Widget.widgets[self.model_id] = self

            # first update
            self.send_state()

    @property
    def model_id(self):
        """Gets the model id of this widget.

        If a Comm doesn't exist yet, a Comm will be created automagically."""
        return self.comm.comm_id

    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Methods
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------

    def close(self):
        """Close method.

        Closes the underlying comm.
        When the comm is closed, all of the widget views are automatically
        removed from the front-end."""
        if self.comm is not None:
            Widget.widgets.pop(self.model_id, None)
            self.comm.close()
            self.comm = None
    
    def send_state(self, key=None):
        """Sends the widget state, or a piece of it, to the front-end.

        Parameters
        ----------
        key : unicode, or iterable (optional)
            A single property's name or iterable of property names to sync with the front-end.
        """
        self._send({
            "method" : "update",
            "state"  : self.get_state(key=key)
        })

    def get_state(self, key=None):
        """Gets the widget state, or a piece of it.

        Parameters
        ----------
        key : unicode or iterable (optional)
            A single property's name or iterable of property names to get.
        """
        if key is None:
            keys = self.keys
        elif isinstance(key, string_types):
            keys = [key]
        elif isinstance(key, collections.Iterable):
            keys = key
        else:
            raise ValueError("key must be a string, an iterable of keys, or None")
        state = {}
        for k in keys:
            f = self.trait_metadata(k, 'to_json', self._trait_to_json)
            value = getattr(self, k)
            state[k] = f(value)
        return state
    
    def send(self, content):
        """Sends a custom msg to the widget model in the front-end.

        Parameters
        ----------
        content : dict
            Content of the message to send.
        """
        self._send({"method": "custom", "content": content})

    def on_msg(self, callback, remove=False):
        """(Un)Register a custom msg receive callback.

        Parameters
        ----------
        callback: callable
            callback will be passed two arguments when a message arrives::
            
                callback(widget, content)
            
        remove: bool
            True if the callback should be unregistered."""
        self._msg_callbacks.register_callback(callback, remove=remove)

    def on_displayed(self, callback, remove=False):
        """(Un)Register a widget displayed callback.

        Parameters
        ----------
        callback: method handler
            Must have a signature of::
            
                callback(widget, **kwargs)
            
            kwargs from display are passed through without modification.
        remove: bool
            True if the callback should be unregistered."""
        self._display_callbacks.register_callback(callback, remove=remove)

    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Support methods
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    @contextmanager
    def _lock_property(self, key, value):
        """Lock a property-value pair.

        The value should be the JSON state of the property.

        NOTE: This, in addition to the single lock for all state changes, is 
        flawed.  In the future we may want to look into buffering state changes 
        back to the front-end."""
        self._property_lock = (key, value)
        try:
            yield
        finally:
            self._property_lock = (None, None)

    @contextmanager
    def hold_sync(self):
        """Hold syncing any state until the context manager is released"""
        # We increment a value so that this can be nested.  Syncing will happen when
        # all levels have been released.
        self._send_state_lock += 1
        try:
            yield
        finally:
            self._send_state_lock -=1
            if self._send_state_lock == 0:
                self.send_state(self._states_to_send)
                self._states_to_send.clear()

    def _should_send_property(self, key, value):
        """Check the property lock (property_lock)"""
        to_json = self.trait_metadata(key, 'to_json', self._trait_to_json)
        if (key == self._property_lock[0]
            and to_json(value) == self._property_lock[1]):
            return False
        elif self._send_state_lock > 0:
            self._states_to_send.add(key)
            return False
        else:
            return True
    
    # Event handlers
    @_show_traceback
    def _handle_msg(self, msg):
        """Called when a msg is received from the front-end"""
        data = msg['content']['data']
        method = data['method']
        if not method in ['backbone', 'custom']:
            self.log.error('Unknown front-end to back-end widget msg with method "%s"' % method)

        # Handle backbone sync methods CREATE, PATCH, and UPDATE all in one.
        if method == 'backbone' and 'sync_data' in data:
            sync_data = data['sync_data']
            self._handle_receive_state(sync_data) # handles all methods

        # Handle a custom msg from the front-end
        elif method == 'custom':
            if 'content' in data:
                self._handle_custom_msg(data['content'])

    def _handle_receive_state(self, sync_data):
        """Called when a state is received from the front-end."""
        for name in self.keys:
            if name in sync_data:
                json_value = sync_data[name]
                from_json = self.trait_metadata(name, 'from_json', self._trait_from_json)
                with self._lock_property(name, json_value):
                    setattr(self, name, from_json(json_value))

    def _handle_custom_msg(self, content):
        """Called when a custom msg is received."""
        self._msg_callbacks(self, content)

    def _handle_property_changed(self, name, old, new):
        """Called when a property has been changed."""
        # Make sure this isn't information that the front-end just sent us.
        if self._should_send_property(name, new):
            # Send new state to front-end
            self.send_state(key=name)

    def _handle_displayed(self, **kwargs):
        """Called when a view has been displayed for this widget instance"""
        self._display_callbacks(self, **kwargs)

    def _trait_to_json(self, x):
        """Convert a trait value to json

        Traverse lists/tuples and dicts and serialize their values as well.
        Replace any widgets with their model_id
        """
        if isinstance(x, dict):
            return {k: self._trait_to_json(v) for k, v in x.items()}
        elif isinstance(x, (list, tuple)):
            return [self._trait_to_json(v) for v in x]
        elif isinstance(x, Widget):
            return "IPY_MODEL_" + x.model_id
        else:
            return x # Value must be JSON-able

    def _trait_from_json(self, x):
        """Convert json values to objects

        Replace any strings representing valid model id values to Widget references.
        """
        if isinstance(x, dict):
            return {k: self._trait_from_json(v) for k, v in x.items()}
        elif isinstance(x, (list, tuple)):
            return [self._trait_from_json(v) for v in x]
        elif isinstance(x, string_types) and x.startswith('IPY_MODEL_') and x[10:] in Widget.widgets:
            # we want to support having child widgets at any level in a hierarchy
            # trusting that a widget UUID will not appear out in the wild
            return Widget.widgets[x]
        else:
            return x

    def _ipython_display_(self, **kwargs):
        """Called when `IPython.display.display` is called on the widget."""
        # Show view.  By sending a display message, the comm is opened and the
        # initial state is sent.
        self._send({"method": "display"})
        self._handle_displayed(**kwargs)

    def _send(self, msg):
        """Sends a message to the model in the front-end."""
        self.comm.send(msg)


class DOMWidget(Widget):
    visible = Bool(True, help="Whether the widget is visible.", sync=True)
    _css = Tuple(sync=True, help="CSS property list: (selector, key, value)")
    _dom_classes = Tuple(sync=True, help="DOM classes applied to widget.$el.")
    
    width = CUnicode(sync=True)
    height = CUnicode(sync=True)
    padding = CUnicode(sync=True)
    margin = CUnicode(sync=True)

    fore_color = Unicode(sync=True)
    back_color = Unicode(sync=True)
    border_color = Unicode(sync=True)

    border_width = CUnicode(sync=True)
    border_style = CaselessStrEnum(values=[ # http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_border-style.asp
        'none', 
        'hidden', 
        'dotted', 
        'dashed', 
        'solid', 
        'double', 
        'groove', 
        'ridge', 
        'inset', 
        'outset', 
        'initial', 
        'inherit', ''],
        default_value='', sync=True)

    font_style = CaselessStrEnum(values=[ # http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font-style.asp
        'normal', 
        'italic', 
        'oblique', 
        'initial', 
        'inherit', ''], 
        default_value='', sync=True)
    font_weight = CaselessStrEnum(values=[ # http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_weight.asp
        'normal', 
        'bold', 
        'bolder', 
        'lighter',
        'initial', 
        'inherit', ''] + [str(100 * (i+1)) for i in range(9)], 
        default_value='', sync=True)
    font_size = CUnicode(sync=True)
    font_family = Unicode(sync=True)