simplify IPython.parallel connections

Rolls back two-stage connection, putting complete connection info
into the connection files.  This makes it easier to use hand-crafted
ssh tunnels, as all ports are read from the file, rather than
from the reply to registration/connection requests.

It is no longer possible to connect to the Controller without a connection file.

Adding the serialization methods to the connection file also makes it
harder for custom serialization to result in a mismatch in configuration
between the various objects.

IPython/parallel/apps/ipcontrollerapp.py

@@ -1,491 +1,497 b''
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # encoding: utf-8
 """
 The IPython controller application.
 
 Authors:
 
 * Brian Granger
 * MinRK
 
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2008-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
 import json
 import os
 import socket
 import stat
 import sys
 
 from multiprocessing import Process
 from signal import signal, SIGINT, SIGABRT, SIGTERM
 
 import zmq
 from zmq.devices import ProcessMonitoredQueue
 from zmq.log.handlers import PUBHandler
 
 from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir
 
 from IPython.parallel.apps.baseapp import (
     BaseParallelApplication,
     base_aliases,
     base_flags,
     catch_config_error,
 )
 from IPython.utils.importstring import import_item
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Instance, Unicode, Bool, List, Dict, TraitError
 
 from IPython.zmq.session import (
     Session, session_aliases, session_flags, default_secure
 )
 
 from IPython.parallel.controller.heartmonitor import HeartMonitor
 from IPython.parallel.controller.hub import HubFactory
 from IPython.parallel.controller.scheduler import TaskScheduler,launch_scheduler
 from IPython.parallel.controller.sqlitedb import SQLiteDB
 
 from IPython.parallel.util import split_url, disambiguate_url
 
 # conditional import of MongoDB backend class
 
 try:
     from IPython.parallel.controller.mongodb import MongoDB
 except ImportError:
     maybe_mongo = []
 else:
     maybe_mongo = [MongoDB]
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Module level variables
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 #: The default config file name for this application
 default_config_file_name = u'ipcontroller_config.py'
 
 
 _description = """Start the IPython controller for parallel computing.
 
 The IPython controller provides a gateway between the IPython engines and
 clients. The controller needs to be started before the engines and can be
 configured using command line options or using a cluster directory. Cluster
 directories contain config, log and security files and are usually located in
 your ipython directory and named as "profile_name". See the `profile`
 and `profile-dir` options for details.
 """
 
 _examples = """
 ipcontroller --ip=192.168.0.1 --port=1000  # listen on ip, port for engines
 ipcontroller --scheme=pure  # use the pure zeromq scheduler
 """
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The main application
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 flags = {}
 flags.update(base_flags)
 flags.update({
     'usethreads' : ( {'IPControllerApp' : {'use_threads' : True}},
                     'Use threads instead of processes for the schedulers'),
     'sqlitedb' : ({'HubFactory' : {'db_class' : 'IPython.parallel.controller.sqlitedb.SQLiteDB'}},
                     'use the SQLiteDB backend'),
     'mongodb' : ({'HubFactory' : {'db_class' : 'IPython.parallel.controller.mongodb.MongoDB'}},
                     'use the MongoDB backend'),
     'dictdb' : ({'HubFactory' : {'db_class' : 'IPython.parallel.controller.dictdb.DictDB'}},
                     'use the in-memory DictDB backend'),
     'nodb' : ({'HubFactory' : {'db_class' : 'IPython.parallel.controller.dictdb.NoDB'}},
                     """use dummy DB backend, which doesn't store any information.
                     
                     This is the default as of IPython 0.13.
                     
                     To enable delayed or repeated retrieval of results from the Hub,
                     select one of the true db backends.
                     """),
     'reuse' : ({'IPControllerApp' : {'reuse_files' : True}},
                     'reuse existing json connection files')
 })
 
 flags.update(session_flags)
 
 aliases = dict(
     ssh = 'IPControllerApp.ssh_server',
     enginessh = 'IPControllerApp.engine_ssh_server',
     location = 'IPControllerApp.location',
 
     url = 'HubFactory.url',
     ip = 'HubFactory.ip',
     transport = 'HubFactory.transport',
     port = 'HubFactory.regport',
 
     ping = 'HeartMonitor.period',
 
     scheme = 'TaskScheduler.scheme_name',
     hwm = 'TaskScheduler.hwm',
 )
 aliases.update(base_aliases)
 aliases.update(session_aliases)
 
 class IPControllerApp(BaseParallelApplication):
 
     name = u'ipcontroller'
     description = _description
     examples = _examples
     config_file_name = Unicode(default_config_file_name)
     classes = [ProfileDir, Session, HubFactory, TaskScheduler, HeartMonitor, SQLiteDB] + maybe_mongo
     
     # change default to True
     auto_create = Bool(True, config=True,
         help="""Whether to create profile dir if it doesn't exist.""")
     
     reuse_files = Bool(False, config=True,
         help="""Whether to reuse existing json connection files.
         If False, connection files will be removed on a clean exit.
         """
     )
     ssh_server = Unicode(u'', config=True,
         help="""ssh url for clients to use when connecting to the Controller
         processes. It should be of the form: [user@]server[:port]. The
         Controller's listening addresses must be accessible from the ssh server""",
     )
     engine_ssh_server = Unicode(u'', config=True,
         help="""ssh url for engines to use when connecting to the Controller
         processes. It should be of the form: [user@]server[:port]. The
         Controller's listening addresses must be accessible from the ssh server""",
     )
     location = Unicode(u'', config=True,
         help="""The external IP or domain name of the Controller, used for disambiguating
         engine and client connections.""",
     )
     import_statements = List([], config=True,
         help="import statements to be run at startup.  Necessary in some environments"
     )
 
     use_threads = Bool(False, config=True,
         help='Use threads instead of processes for the schedulers',
     )
 
     engine_json_file = Unicode('ipcontroller-engine.json', config=True,
         help="JSON filename where engine connection info will be stored.")
     client_json_file = Unicode('ipcontroller-client.json', config=True,
         help="JSON filename where client connection info will be stored.")
     
     def _cluster_id_changed(self, name, old, new):
         super(IPControllerApp, self)._cluster_id_changed(name, old, new)
         self.engine_json_file = "%s-engine.json" % self.name
         self.client_json_file = "%s-client.json" % self.name
 
 
     # internal
     children = List()
     mq_class = Unicode('zmq.devices.ProcessMonitoredQueue')
 
     def _use_threads_changed(self, name, old, new):
         self.mq_class = 'zmq.devices.%sMonitoredQueue'%('Thread' if new else 'Process')
     
     write_connection_files = Bool(True,
         help="""Whether to write connection files to disk.
         True in all cases other than runs with `reuse_files=True` *after the first*
         """
     )
 
     aliases = Dict(aliases)
     flags = Dict(flags)
     
 
     def save_connection_dict(self, fname, cdict):
         """save a connection dict to json file."""
         c = self.config
-        url = cdict['url']
+        url = cdict['registration']
         location = cdict['location']
         if not location:
             try:
                 proto,ip,port = split_url(url)
             except AssertionError:
                 pass
             else:
                 try:
                     location = socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2][-1]
                 except (socket.gaierror, IndexError):
                     self.log.warn("Could not identify this machine's IP, assuming 127.0.0.1."
                     " You may need to specify '--location=<external_ip_address>' to help"
                     " IPython decide when to connect via loopback.")
                     location = '127.0.0.1'
             cdict['location'] = location
         fname = os.path.join(self.profile_dir.security_dir, fname)
         self.log.info("writing connection info to %s", fname)
         with open(fname, 'w') as f:
             f.write(json.dumps(cdict, indent=2))
         os.chmod(fname, stat.S_IRUSR|stat.S_IWUSR)
     
     def load_config_from_json(self):
         """load config from existing json connector files."""
         c = self.config
         self.log.debug("loading config from JSON")
         # load from engine config
         fname = os.path.join(self.profile_dir.security_dir, self.engine_json_file)
         self.log.info("loading connection info from %s", fname)
         with open(fname) as f:
             cfg = json.loads(f.read())
         key = cfg['exec_key']
         # json gives unicode, Session.key wants bytes
         c.Session.key = key.encode('ascii')
         xport,addr = cfg['url'].split('://')
         c.HubFactory.engine_transport = xport
         ip,ports = addr.split(':')
         c.HubFactory.engine_ip = ip
         c.HubFactory.regport = int(ports)
         self.location = cfg['location']
         if not self.engine_ssh_server:
             self.engine_ssh_server = cfg['ssh']
         # load client config
         fname = os.path.join(self.profile_dir.security_dir, self.client_json_file)
         self.log.info("loading connection info from %s", fname)
         with open(fname) as f:
             cfg = json.loads(f.read())
         assert key == cfg['exec_key'], "exec_key mismatch between engine and client keys"
         xport,addr = cfg['url'].split('://')
         c.HubFactory.client_transport = xport
         ip,ports = addr.split(':')
         c.HubFactory.client_ip = ip
         if not self.ssh_server:
             self.ssh_server = cfg['ssh']
         assert int(ports) == c.HubFactory.regport, "regport mismatch"
     
     def cleanup_connection_files(self):
         if self.reuse_files:
             self.log.debug("leaving JSON connection files for reuse")
             return
         self.log.debug("cleaning up JSON connection files")
         for f in (self.client_json_file, self.engine_json_file):
             f = os.path.join(self.profile_dir.security_dir, f)
             try:
                 os.remove(f)
             except Exception as e:
                 self.log.error("Failed to cleanup connection file: %s", e)
             else:
                 self.log.debug(u"removed %s", f)
     
     def load_secondary_config(self):
         """secondary config, loading from JSON and setting defaults"""
         if self.reuse_files:
             try:
                 self.load_config_from_json()
             except (AssertionError,IOError) as e:
                 self.log.error("Could not load config from JSON: %s" % e)
             else:
                 # successfully loaded config from JSON, and reuse=True
                 # no need to wite back the same file
                 self.write_connection_files = False
                 
         # switch Session.key default to secure
         default_secure(self.config)
         self.log.debug("Config changed")
         self.log.debug(repr(self.config))
         
     def init_hub(self):
         c = self.config
         
         self.do_import_statements()
         
         try:
             self.factory = HubFactory(config=c, log=self.log)
             # self.start_logging()
             self.factory.init_hub()
         except TraitError:
             raise
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("Couldn't construct the Controller", exc_info=True)
             self.exit(1)
         
         if self.write_connection_files:
             # save to new json config files
             f = self.factory
-            cdict = {'exec_key' : f.session.key.decode('ascii'),
-                    'ssh' : self.ssh_server,
-                    'url' : "%s://%s:%s"%(f.client_transport, f.client_ip, f.regport),
-                    'location' : self.location
-                    }
+            base = {
+                'exec_key'  : f.session.key.decode('ascii'),
+                'location'  : self.location,
+                'pack'      : f.session.packer,
+                'unpack'    : f.session.unpacker,
+            }
+            
+            cdict = {'ssh' : self.ssh_server}
+            cdict.update(f.client_info)
+            cdict.update(base)
             self.save_connection_dict(self.client_json_file, cdict)
-            edict = cdict
-            edict['url']="%s://%s:%s"%((f.client_transport, f.client_ip, f.regport))
-            edict['ssh'] = self.engine_ssh_server
+            
+            edict = {'ssh' : self.engine_ssh_server}
+            edict.update(f.engine_info)
+            edict.update(base)
             self.save_connection_dict(self.engine_json_file, edict)
 
     def init_schedulers(self):
         children = self.children
         mq = import_item(str(self.mq_class))
         
         hub = self.factory
         # disambiguate url, in case of *
         monitor_url = disambiguate_url(hub.monitor_url)
         # maybe_inproc = 'inproc://monitor' if self.use_threads else monitor_url
         # IOPub relay (in a Process)
         q = mq(zmq.PUB, zmq.SUB, zmq.PUB, b'N/A',b'iopub')
         q.bind_in(hub.client_info['iopub'])
         q.bind_out(hub.engine_info['iopub'])
         q.setsockopt_out(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, b'')
         q.connect_mon(monitor_url)
         q.daemon=True
         children.append(q)
 
         # Multiplexer Queue (in a Process)
         q = mq(zmq.ROUTER, zmq.ROUTER, zmq.PUB, b'in', b'out')
         q.bind_in(hub.client_info['mux'])
         q.setsockopt_in(zmq.IDENTITY, b'mux')
         q.bind_out(hub.engine_info['mux'])
         q.connect_mon(monitor_url)
         q.daemon=True
         children.append(q)
 
         # Control Queue (in a Process)
         q = mq(zmq.ROUTER, zmq.ROUTER, zmq.PUB, b'incontrol', b'outcontrol')
         q.bind_in(hub.client_info['control'])
         q.setsockopt_in(zmq.IDENTITY, b'control')
         q.bind_out(hub.engine_info['control'])
         q.connect_mon(monitor_url)
         q.daemon=True
         children.append(q)
         try:
             scheme = self.config.TaskScheduler.scheme_name
         except AttributeError:
             scheme = TaskScheduler.scheme_name.get_default_value()
         # Task Queue (in a Process)
         if scheme == 'pure':
             self.log.warn("task::using pure DEALER Task scheduler")
             q = mq(zmq.ROUTER, zmq.DEALER, zmq.PUB, b'intask', b'outtask')
             # q.setsockopt_out(zmq.HWM, hub.hwm)
             q.bind_in(hub.client_info['task'][1])
             q.setsockopt_in(zmq.IDENTITY, b'task')
             q.bind_out(hub.engine_info['task'])
             q.connect_mon(monitor_url)
             q.daemon=True
             children.append(q)
         elif scheme == 'none':
             self.log.warn("task::using no Task scheduler")
 
         else:
             self.log.info("task::using Python %s Task scheduler"%scheme)
-            sargs = (hub.client_info['task'][1], hub.engine_info['task'],
+            sargs = (hub.client_info['task'], hub.engine_info['task'],
                                 monitor_url, disambiguate_url(hub.client_info['notification']))
             kwargs = dict(logname='scheduler', loglevel=self.log_level,
                             log_url = self.log_url, config=dict(self.config))
             if 'Process' in self.mq_class:
                 # run the Python scheduler in a Process
                 q = Process(target=launch_scheduler, args=sargs, kwargs=kwargs)
                 q.daemon=True
                 children.append(q)
             else:
                 # single-threaded Controller
                 kwargs['in_thread'] = True
                 launch_scheduler(*sargs, **kwargs)
 
     def terminate_children(self):
         child_procs = []
         for child in self.children:
             if isinstance(child, ProcessMonitoredQueue):
                 child_procs.append(child.launcher)
             elif isinstance(child, Process):
                 child_procs.append(child)
         if child_procs:
             self.log.critical("terminating children...")
             for child in child_procs:
                 try:
                     child.terminate()
                 except OSError:
                     # already dead
                     pass
     
     def handle_signal(self, sig, frame):
         self.log.critical("Received signal %i, shutting down", sig)
         self.terminate_children()
         self.loop.stop()
     
     def init_signal(self):
         for sig in (SIGINT, SIGABRT, SIGTERM):
             signal(sig, self.handle_signal)
 
     def do_import_statements(self):
         statements = self.import_statements
         for s in statements:
             try:
                 self.log.msg("Executing statement: '%s'" % s)
                 exec s in globals(), locals()
             except:
                 self.log.msg("Error running statement: %s" % s)
 
     def forward_logging(self):
         if self.log_url:
             self.log.info("Forwarding logging to %s"%self.log_url)
             context = zmq.Context.instance()
             lsock = context.socket(zmq.PUB)
             lsock.connect(self.log_url)
             handler = PUBHandler(lsock)
             handler.root_topic = 'controller'
             handler.setLevel(self.log_level)
             self.log.addHandler(handler)
     
     @catch_config_error
     def initialize(self, argv=None):
         super(IPControllerApp, self).initialize(argv)
         self.forward_logging()
         self.load_secondary_config()
         self.init_hub()
         self.init_schedulers()
     
     def start(self):
         # Start the subprocesses:
         self.factory.start()
         # children must be started before signals are setup,
         # otherwise signal-handling will fire multiple times
         for child in self.children:
             child.start()
         self.init_signal()
 
         self.write_pid_file(overwrite=True)
 
         try:
             self.factory.loop.start()
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             self.log.critical("Interrupted, Exiting...\n")
         finally:
             self.cleanup_connection_files()
             
 
 
 def launch_new_instance():
     """Create and run the IPython controller"""
     if sys.platform == 'win32':
         # make sure we don't get called from a multiprocessing subprocess
         # this can result in infinite Controllers being started on Windows
         # which doesn't have a proper fork, so multiprocessing is wonky
         
         # this only comes up when IPython has been installed using vanilla
         # setuptools, and *not* distribute.
         import multiprocessing
         p = multiprocessing.current_process()
         # the main process has name 'MainProcess'
         # subprocesses will have names like 'Process-1'
         if p.name != 'MainProcess':
             # we are a subprocess, don't start another Controller!
             return
     app = IPControllerApp.instance()
     app.initialize()
     app.start()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     launch_new_instance()

IPython/parallel/apps/ipengineapp.py

@@ -1,377 +1,390 b''
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # encoding: utf-8
 """
 The IPython engine application
 
 Authors:
 
 * Brian Granger
 * MinRK
 
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2008-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 import json
 import os
 import sys
 import time
 
 import zmq
 from zmq.eventloop import ioloop
 
 from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir
 from IPython.parallel.apps.baseapp import (
     BaseParallelApplication,
     base_aliases,
     base_flags,
     catch_config_error,
 )
 from IPython.zmq.log import EnginePUBHandler
 from IPython.zmq.ipkernel import Kernel, IPKernelApp
 from IPython.zmq.session import (
     Session, session_aliases, session_flags
 )
 
 from IPython.config.configurable import Configurable
 
 from IPython.parallel.engine.engine import EngineFactory
 from IPython.parallel.util import disambiguate_url
 
 from IPython.utils.importstring import import_item
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_bytes
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Bool, Unicode, Dict, List, Float, Instance
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Module level variables
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #: The default config file name for this application
 default_config_file_name = u'ipengine_config.py'
 
 _description = """Start an IPython engine for parallel computing.
 
 IPython engines run in parallel and perform computations on behalf of a client
 and controller. A controller needs to be started before the engines. The
 engine can be configured using command line options or using a cluster
 directory. Cluster directories contain config, log and security files and are
 usually located in your ipython directory and named as "profile_name".
 See the `profile` and `profile-dir` options for details.
 """
 
 _examples = """
 ipengine --ip=192.168.0.1 --port=1000     # connect to hub at ip and port
 ipengine --log-to-file --log-level=DEBUG  # log to a file with DEBUG verbosity
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # MPI configuration
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 mpi4py_init = """from mpi4py import MPI as mpi
 mpi.size = mpi.COMM_WORLD.Get_size()
 mpi.rank = mpi.COMM_WORLD.Get_rank()
 """
 
 
 pytrilinos_init = """from PyTrilinos import Epetra
 class SimpleStruct:
 pass
 mpi = SimpleStruct()
 mpi.rank = 0
 mpi.size = 0
 """
 
 class MPI(Configurable):
     """Configurable for MPI initialization"""
     use = Unicode('', config=True,
         help='How to enable MPI (mpi4py, pytrilinos, or empty string to disable).'
         )
 
     def _use_changed(self, name, old, new):
         # load default init script if it's not set
         if not self.init_script:
             self.init_script = self.default_inits.get(new, '')
 
     init_script = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="Initialization code for MPI")
 
     default_inits = Dict({'mpi4py' : mpi4py_init, 'pytrilinos':pytrilinos_init},
         config=True)
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Main application
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 aliases = dict(
     file = 'IPEngineApp.url_file',
     c = 'IPEngineApp.startup_command',
     s = 'IPEngineApp.startup_script',
 
     url = 'EngineFactory.url',
     ssh = 'EngineFactory.sshserver',
     sshkey = 'EngineFactory.sshkey',
     ip = 'EngineFactory.ip',
     transport = 'EngineFactory.transport',
     port = 'EngineFactory.regport',
     location = 'EngineFactory.location',
 
     timeout = 'EngineFactory.timeout',
 
     mpi = 'MPI.use',
 
 )
 aliases.update(base_aliases)
 aliases.update(session_aliases)
 flags = {}
 flags.update(base_flags)
 flags.update(session_flags)
 
 class IPEngineApp(BaseParallelApplication):
 
     name = 'ipengine'
     description = _description
     examples = _examples
     config_file_name = Unicode(default_config_file_name)
     classes = List([ProfileDir, Session, EngineFactory, Kernel, MPI])
 
     startup_script = Unicode(u'', config=True,
         help='specify a script to be run at startup')
     startup_command = Unicode('', config=True,
             help='specify a command to be run at startup')
 
     url_file = Unicode(u'', config=True,
         help="""The full location of the file containing the connection information for
         the controller. If this is not given, the file must be in the
         security directory of the cluster directory.  This location is
         resolved using the `profile` or `profile_dir` options.""",
         )
     wait_for_url_file = Float(5, config=True,
         help="""The maximum number of seconds to wait for url_file to exist.
         This is useful for batch-systems and shared-filesystems where the
         controller and engine are started at the same time and it
         may take a moment for the controller to write the connector files.""")
 
     url_file_name = Unicode(u'ipcontroller-engine.json', config=True)
 
     def _cluster_id_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new:
             base = 'ipcontroller-%s' % new
         else:
             base = 'ipcontroller'
         self.url_file_name = "%s-engine.json" % base
 
     log_url = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="""The URL for the iploggerapp instance, for forwarding
         logging to a central location.""")
     
     # an IPKernelApp instance, used to setup listening for shell frontends
     kernel_app = Instance(IPKernelApp)
 
     aliases = Dict(aliases)
     flags = Dict(flags)
     
     @property
     def kernel(self):
         """allow access to the Kernel object, so I look like IPKernelApp"""
         return self.engine.kernel
 
     def find_url_file(self):
         """Set the url file.
 
         Here we don't try to actually see if it exists for is valid as that
         is hadled by the connection logic.
         """
         config = self.config
         # Find the actual controller key file
         if not self.url_file:
             self.url_file = os.path.join(
                 self.profile_dir.security_dir,
                 self.url_file_name
             )
     
     def load_connector_file(self):
         """load config from a JSON connector file,
         at a *lower* priority than command-line/config files.
         """
         
         self.log.info("Loading url_file %r", self.url_file)
         config = self.config
         
         with open(self.url_file) as f:
             d = json.loads(f.read())
         
-        if 'exec_key' in d:
-            config.Session.key = cast_bytes(d['exec_key'])
-        
+        # allow hand-override of location for disambiguation
+        # and ssh-server
         try:
             config.EngineFactory.location
         except AttributeError:
             config.EngineFactory.location = d['location']
         
-        d['url'] = disambiguate_url(d['url'], config.EngineFactory.location)
-        try:
-            config.EngineFactory.url
-        except AttributeError:
-            config.EngineFactory.url = d['url']
-        
         try:
             config.EngineFactory.sshserver
         except AttributeError:
-            config.EngineFactory.sshserver = d['ssh']
+            config.EngineFactory.sshserver = d.get('ssh')
+        
+        location = config.EngineFactory.location
+        
+        for key in ('registration', 'hb_ping', 'hb_pong', 'mux', 'task', 'control'):
+            d[key] = disambiguate_url(d[key], location)
+        
+        # DO NOT allow override of basic URLs, serialization, or exec_key
+        # JSON file takes top priority there
+        config.Session.key = asbytes(d['exec_key'])
+        
+        config.EngineFactory.url = d['registration']
+        
+        config.Session.packer = d['pack']
+        config.Session.unpacker = d['unpack']
+        
+        self.log.debug("Config changed:")
+        self.log.debug("%r", config)
+        self.connection_info = d
     
     def bind_kernel(self, **kwargs):
         """Promote engine to listening kernel, accessible to frontends."""
         if self.kernel_app is not None:
             return
         
         self.log.info("Opening ports for direct connections as an IPython kernel")
         
         kernel = self.kernel
         
         kwargs.setdefault('config', self.config)
         kwargs.setdefault('log', self.log)
         kwargs.setdefault('profile_dir', self.profile_dir)
         kwargs.setdefault('session', self.engine.session)
         
         app = self.kernel_app = IPKernelApp(**kwargs)
         
         # allow IPKernelApp.instance():
         IPKernelApp._instance = app
         
         app.init_connection_file()
         # relevant contents of init_sockets:
         
         app.shell_port = app._bind_socket(kernel.shell_streams[0], app.shell_port)
         app.log.debug("shell ROUTER Channel on port: %i", app.shell_port)
         
         app.iopub_port = app._bind_socket(kernel.iopub_socket, app.iopub_port)
         app.log.debug("iopub PUB Channel on port: %i", app.iopub_port)
         
         kernel.stdin_socket = self.engine.context.socket(zmq.ROUTER)
         app.stdin_port = app._bind_socket(kernel.stdin_socket, app.stdin_port)
         app.log.debug("stdin ROUTER Channel on port: %i", app.stdin_port)
         
         # start the heartbeat, and log connection info:
         
         app.init_heartbeat()
         
         app.log_connection_info()
         app.write_connection_file()
         
     
     def init_engine(self):
         # This is the working dir by now.
         sys.path.insert(0, '')
         config = self.config
         # print config
         self.find_url_file()
         
         # was the url manually specified?
         keys = set(self.config.EngineFactory.keys())
         keys = keys.union(set(self.config.RegistrationFactory.keys()))
         
         if keys.intersection(set(['ip', 'url', 'port'])):
             # Connection info was specified, don't wait for the file
             url_specified = True
             self.wait_for_url_file = 0
         else:
             url_specified = False
 
         if self.wait_for_url_file and not os.path.exists(self.url_file):
             self.log.warn("url_file %r not found", self.url_file)
             self.log.warn("Waiting up to %.1f seconds for it to arrive.", self.wait_for_url_file)
             tic = time.time()
             while not os.path.exists(self.url_file) and (time.time()-tic < self.wait_for_url_file):
                 # wait for url_file to exist, or until time limit
                 time.sleep(0.1)
             
         if os.path.exists(self.url_file):
             self.load_connector_file()
         elif not url_specified:
             self.log.fatal("Fatal: url file never arrived: %s", self.url_file)
             self.exit(1)
         
         
         try:
             exec_lines = config.Kernel.exec_lines
         except AttributeError:
             config.Kernel.exec_lines = []
             exec_lines = config.Kernel.exec_lines
         
         if self.startup_script:
             enc = sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'utf8'
             cmd="execfile(%r)" % self.startup_script.encode(enc)
             exec_lines.append(cmd)
         if self.startup_command:
             exec_lines.append(self.startup_command)
 
         # Create the underlying shell class and Engine
         # shell_class = import_item(self.master_config.Global.shell_class)
         # print self.config
         try:
-            self.engine = EngineFactory(config=config, log=self.log)
+            self.engine = EngineFactory(config=config, log=self.log,
+                            connection_info=self.connection_info,
+                        )
         except:
             self.log.error("Couldn't start the Engine", exc_info=True)
             self.exit(1)
     
     def forward_logging(self):
         if self.log_url:
             self.log.info("Forwarding logging to %s", self.log_url)
             context = self.engine.context
             lsock = context.socket(zmq.PUB)
             lsock.connect(self.log_url)
             handler = EnginePUBHandler(self.engine, lsock)
             handler.setLevel(self.log_level)
             self.log.addHandler(handler)
     
     def init_mpi(self):
         global mpi
         self.mpi = MPI(config=self.config)
 
         mpi_import_statement = self.mpi.init_script
         if mpi_import_statement:
             try:
                 self.log.info("Initializing MPI:")
                 self.log.info(mpi_import_statement)
                 exec mpi_import_statement in globals()
             except:
                 mpi = None
         else:
             mpi = None
 
     @catch_config_error
     def initialize(self, argv=None):
         super(IPEngineApp, self).initialize(argv)
         self.init_mpi()
         self.init_engine()
         self.forward_logging()
     
     def start(self):
         self.engine.start()
         try:
             self.engine.loop.start()
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             self.log.critical("Engine Interrupted, shutting down...\n")
 
 
 def launch_new_instance():
     """Create and run the IPython engine"""
     app = IPEngineApp.instance()
     app.initialize()
     app.start()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     launch_new_instance()
 

IPython/parallel/client/client.py

@@ -1,1713 +1,1692 b''
 """A semi-synchronous Client for the ZMQ cluster
 
 Authors:
 
 * MinRK
 """
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2010-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 import os
 import json
 import sys
 from threading import Thread, Event
 import time
 import warnings
 from datetime import datetime
 from getpass import getpass
 from pprint import pprint
 
 pjoin = os.path.join
 
 import zmq
 # from zmq.eventloop import ioloop, zmqstream
 
 from IPython.config.configurable import MultipleInstanceError
 from IPython.core.application import BaseIPythonApplication
 from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir, ProfileDirError
 
 from IPython.utils.coloransi import TermColors
 from IPython.utils.jsonutil import rekey
 from IPython.utils.localinterfaces import LOCAL_IPS
 from IPython.utils.path import get_ipython_dir
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_bytes
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import (HasTraits, Integer, Instance, Unicode,
                                     Dict, List, Bool, Set, Any)
 from IPython.external.decorator import decorator
 from IPython.external.ssh import tunnel
 
 from IPython.parallel import Reference
 from IPython.parallel import error
 from IPython.parallel import util
 
 from IPython.zmq.session import Session, Message
 
 from .asyncresult import AsyncResult, AsyncHubResult
 from .view import DirectView, LoadBalancedView
 
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     # xrange is used in a couple 'isinstance' tests in py2
     # should be just 'range' in 3k
     xrange = range
 
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Decorators for Client methods
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 @decorator
 def spin_first(f, self, *args, **kwargs):
     """Call spin() to sync state prior to calling the method."""
     self.spin()
     return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
 
 
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 class ExecuteReply(object):
     """wrapper for finished Execute results"""
     def __init__(self, msg_id, content, metadata):
         self.msg_id = msg_id
         self._content = content
         self.execution_count = content['execution_count']
         self.metadata = metadata
     
     def __getitem__(self, key):
         return self.metadata[key]
     
     def __getattr__(self, key):
         if key not in self.metadata:
             raise AttributeError(key)
         return self.metadata[key]
     
     def __repr__(self):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         text_out = pyout['data'].get('text/plain', '')
         if len(text_out) > 32:
             text_out = text_out[:29] + '...'
         
         return "<ExecuteReply[%i]: %s>" % (self.execution_count, text_out)
     
     def _repr_pretty_(self, p, cycle):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         text_out = pyout['data'].get('text/plain', '')
         
         if not text_out:
             return
         
         try:
             ip = get_ipython()
         except NameError:
             colors = "NoColor"
         else:
             colors = ip.colors
         
         if colors == "NoColor":
             out = normal = ""
         else:
             out = TermColors.Red
             normal = TermColors.Normal
         
         if '\n' in text_out and not text_out.startswith('\n'):
             # add newline for multiline reprs
             text_out = '\n' + text_out
         
         p.text(
             out + u'Out[%i:%i]: ' % (
                 self.metadata['engine_id'], self.execution_count
             ) + normal + text_out
         )
     
     def _repr_html_(self):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         return pyout['data'].get("text/html")
     
     def _repr_latex_(self):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         return pyout['data'].get("text/latex")
     
     def _repr_json_(self):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         return pyout['data'].get("application/json")
     
     def _repr_javascript_(self):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         return pyout['data'].get("application/javascript")
     
     def _repr_png_(self):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         return pyout['data'].get("image/png")
     
     def _repr_jpeg_(self):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         return pyout['data'].get("image/jpeg")
     
     def _repr_svg_(self):
         pyout = self.metadata['pyout'] or {'data':{}}
         return pyout['data'].get("image/svg+xml")
 
 
 class Metadata(dict):
     """Subclass of dict for initializing metadata values.
 
     Attribute access works on keys.
 
     These objects have a strict set of keys - errors will raise if you try
     to add new keys.
     """
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         dict.__init__(self)
         md = {'msg_id' : None,
               'submitted' : None,
               'started' : None,
               'completed' : None,
               'received' : None,
               'engine_uuid' : None,
               'engine_id' : None,
               'follow' : None,
               'after' : None,
               'status' : None,
 
               'pyin' : None,
               'pyout' : None,
               'pyerr' : None,
               'stdout' : '',
               'stderr' : '',
               'outputs' : [],
               'outputs_ready' : False,
             }
         self.update(md)
         self.update(dict(*args, **kwargs))
 
     def __getattr__(self, key):
         """getattr aliased to getitem"""
         if key in self.iterkeys():
             return self[key]
         else:
             raise AttributeError(key)
 
     def __setattr__(self, key, value):
         """setattr aliased to setitem, with strict"""
         if key in self.iterkeys():
             self[key] = value
         else:
             raise AttributeError(key)
 
     def __setitem__(self, key, value):
         """strict static key enforcement"""
         if key in self.iterkeys():
             dict.__setitem__(self, key, value)
         else:
             raise KeyError(key)
 
 
 class Client(HasTraits):
     """A semi-synchronous client to the IPython ZMQ cluster
 
     Parameters
     ----------
 
-    url_or_file : bytes or unicode; zmq url or path to ipcontroller-client.json
+    url_file : str/unicode; path to ipcontroller-client.json
+        This JSON file should contain all the information needed to connect to a cluster,
+        and is likely the only argument needed.
         Connection information for the Hub's registration.  If a json connector
         file is given, then likely no further configuration is necessary.
         [Default: use profile]
     profile : bytes
         The name of the Cluster profile to be used to find connector information.
         If run from an IPython application, the default profile will be the same
         as the running application, otherwise it will be 'default'.
     context : zmq.Context
         Pass an existing zmq.Context instance, otherwise the client will create its own.
     debug : bool
         flag for lots of message printing for debug purposes
     timeout : int/float
         time (in seconds) to wait for connection replies from the Hub
         [Default: 10]
 
     #-------------- session related args ----------------
 
     config : Config object
         If specified, this will be relayed to the Session for configuration
     username : str
         set username for the session object
-    packer : str (import_string) or callable
-        Can be either the simple keyword 'json' or 'pickle', or an import_string to a
-        function to serialize messages. Must support same input as
-        JSON, and output must be bytes.
-        You can pass a callable directly as `pack`
-    unpacker : str (import_string) or callable
-        The inverse of packer.  Only necessary if packer is specified as *not* one
-        of 'json' or 'pickle'.
 
     #-------------- ssh related args ----------------
     # These are args for configuring the ssh tunnel to be used
     # credentials are used to forward connections over ssh to the Controller
     # Note that the ip given in `addr` needs to be relative to sshserver
     # The most basic case is to leave addr as pointing to localhost (127.0.0.1),
     # and set sshserver as the same machine the Controller is on. However,
     # the only requirement is that sshserver is able to see the Controller
     # (i.e. is within the same trusted network).
 
     sshserver : str
         A string of the form passed to ssh, i.e. 'server.tld' or '[e-mail]:port'
         If keyfile or password is specified, and this is not, it will default to
         the ip given in addr.
     sshkey : str; path to ssh private key file
         This specifies a key to be used in ssh login, default None.
         Regular default ssh keys will be used without specifying this argument.
     password : str
         Your ssh password to sshserver. Note that if this is left None,
         you will be prompted for it if passwordless key based login is unavailable.
     paramiko : bool
         flag for whether to use paramiko instead of shell ssh for tunneling.
         [default: True on win32, False else]
 
-    ------- exec authentication args -------
-    If even localhost is untrusted, you can have some protection against
-    unauthorized execution by signing messages with HMAC digests.
-    Messages are still sent as cleartext, so if someone can snoop your
-    loopback traffic this will not protect your privacy, but will prevent
-    unauthorized execution.
-
-    exec_key : str
-        an authentication key or file containing a key
-        default: None
-
 
     Attributes
     ----------
 
     ids : list of int engine IDs
         requesting the ids attribute always synchronizes
         the registration state. To request ids without synchronization,
         use semi-private _ids attributes.
 
     history : list of msg_ids
         a list of msg_ids, keeping track of all the execution
         messages you have submitted in order.
 
     outstanding : set of msg_ids
         a set of msg_ids that have been submitted, but whose
         results have not yet been received.
 
     results : dict
         a dict of all our results, keyed by msg_id
 
     block : bool
         determines default behavior when block not specified
         in execution methods
 
     Methods
     -------
 
     spin
         flushes incoming results and registration state changes
         control methods spin, and requesting `ids` also ensures up to date
 
     wait
         wait on one or more msg_ids
 
     execution methods
         apply
         legacy: execute, run
 
     data movement
         push, pull, scatter, gather
 
     query methods
         queue_status, get_result, purge, result_status
 
     control methods
         abort, shutdown
 
     """
 
 
     block = Bool(False)
     outstanding = Set()
     results = Instance('collections.defaultdict', (dict,))
     metadata = Instance('collections.defaultdict', (Metadata,))
     history = List()
     debug = Bool(False)
     _spin_thread = Any()
     _stop_spinning = Any()
 
     profile=Unicode()
     def _profile_default(self):
         if BaseIPythonApplication.initialized():
             # an IPython app *might* be running, try to get its profile
             try:
                 return BaseIPythonApplication.instance().profile
             except (AttributeError, MultipleInstanceError):
                 # could be a *different* subclass of config.Application,
                 # which would raise one of these two errors.
                 return u'default'
         else:
             return u'default'
 
 
     _outstanding_dict = Instance('collections.defaultdict', (set,))
     _ids = List()
     _connected=Bool(False)
     _ssh=Bool(False)
     _context = Instance('zmq.Context')
     _config = Dict()
     _engines=Instance(util.ReverseDict, (), {})
     # _hub_socket=Instance('zmq.Socket')
     _query_socket=Instance('zmq.Socket')
     _control_socket=Instance('zmq.Socket')
     _iopub_socket=Instance('zmq.Socket')
     _notification_socket=Instance('zmq.Socket')
     _mux_socket=Instance('zmq.Socket')
     _task_socket=Instance('zmq.Socket')
     _task_scheme=Unicode()
     _closed = False
     _ignored_control_replies=Integer(0)
     _ignored_hub_replies=Integer(0)
 
     def __new__(self, *args, **kw):
         # don't raise on positional args
         return HasTraits.__new__(self, **kw)
 
-    def __init__(self, url_or_file=None, profile=None, profile_dir=None, ipython_dir=None,
-            context=None, debug=False, exec_key=None,
+    def __init__(self, url_file=None, profile=None, profile_dir=None, ipython_dir=None,
+            context=None, debug=False,
             sshserver=None, sshkey=None, password=None, paramiko=None,
             timeout=10, **extra_args
             ):
         if profile:
             super(Client, self).__init__(debug=debug, profile=profile)
         else:
             super(Client, self).__init__(debug=debug)
         if context is None:
             context = zmq.Context.instance()
         self._context = context
         self._stop_spinning = Event()
+        
+        if 'url_or_file' in extra_args:
+            url_file = extra_args['url_or_file']
+            warnings.warn("url_or_file arg no longer supported, use url_file", DeprecationWarning)
+        
+        if url_file and util.is_url(url_file):
+            raise ValueError("single urls cannot be specified, url-files must be used.")
 
         self._setup_profile_dir(self.profile, profile_dir, ipython_dir)
+        
         if self._cd is not None:
-            if url_or_file is None:
-                url_or_file = pjoin(self._cd.security_dir, 'ipcontroller-client.json')
-        if url_or_file is None:
+            if url_file is None:
+                url_file = pjoin(self._cd.security_dir, 'ipcontroller-client.json')
+        if url_file is None:
             raise ValueError(
                 "I can't find enough information to connect to a hub!"
-                " Please specify at least one of url_or_file or profile."
+                " Please specify at least one of url_file or profile."
             )
-
-        if not util.is_url(url_or_file):
-            # it's not a url, try for a file
-            if not os.path.exists(url_or_file):
-                if self._cd:
-                    url_or_file = os.path.join(self._cd.security_dir, url_or_file)
-                if not os.path.exists(url_or_file):
-                    raise IOError("Connection file not found: %r" % url_or_file)
-            with open(url_or_file) as f:
-                cfg = json.loads(f.read())
-        else:
-            cfg = {'url':url_or_file}
+        
+        with open(url_file) as f:
+            cfg = json.load(f)
+        
+        self._task_scheme = cfg['task_scheme']
 
         # sync defaults from args, json:
         if sshserver:
             cfg['ssh'] = sshserver
-        if exec_key:
-            cfg['exec_key'] = exec_key
-        exec_key = cfg['exec_key']
+
         location = cfg.setdefault('location', None)
-        cfg['url'] = util.disambiguate_url(cfg['url'], location)
-        url = cfg['url']
+        for key in ('control', 'task', 'mux', 'notification', 'registration'):
+            cfg[key] = util.disambiguate_url(cfg[key], location)
+        url = cfg['registration']
         proto,addr,port = util.split_url(url)
         if location is not None and addr == '127.0.0.1':
             # location specified, and connection is expected to be local
             if location not in LOCAL_IPS and not sshserver:
                 # load ssh from JSON *only* if the controller is not on
                 # this machine
                 sshserver=cfg['ssh']
             if location not in LOCAL_IPS and not sshserver:
                 # warn if no ssh specified, but SSH is probably needed
                 # This is only a warning, because the most likely cause
                 # is a local Controller on a laptop whose IP is dynamic
                 warnings.warn("""
             Controller appears to be listening on localhost, but not on this machine.
             If this is true, you should specify Client(...,sshserver='you@%s')
             or instruct your controller to listen on an external IP."""%location,
                 RuntimeWarning)
         elif not sshserver:
             # otherwise sync with cfg
             sshserver = cfg['ssh']
 
         self._config = cfg
 
         self._ssh = bool(sshserver or sshkey or password)
         if self._ssh and sshserver is None:
             # default to ssh via localhost
             sshserver = url.split('://')[1].split(':')[0]
         if self._ssh and password is None:
             if tunnel.try_passwordless_ssh(sshserver, sshkey, paramiko):
                 password=False
             else:
                 password = getpass("SSH Password for %s: "%sshserver)
         ssh_kwargs = dict(keyfile=sshkey, password=password, paramiko=paramiko)
 
         # configure and construct the session
-        if exec_key is not None:
-            if os.path.isfile(exec_key):
-                extra_args['keyfile'] = exec_key
-            else:
-                exec_key = cast_bytes(exec_key)
-                extra_args['key'] = exec_key
+        extra_args['packer'] = cfg['pack']
+        extra_args['unpacker'] = cfg['unpack']
+        extra_args['key'] = cfg['exec_key']
+        
         self.session = Session(**extra_args)
 
         self._query_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.DEALER)
 
         if self._ssh:
             tunnel.tunnel_connection(self._query_socket, url, sshserver, **ssh_kwargs)
         else:
             self._query_socket.connect(url)
 
         self.session.debug = self.debug
 
         self._notification_handlers = {'registration_notification' : self._register_engine,
                                     'unregistration_notification' : self._unregister_engine,
                                     'shutdown_notification' : lambda msg: self.close(),
                                     }
         self._queue_handlers = {'execute_reply' : self._handle_execute_reply,
                                 'apply_reply' : self._handle_apply_reply}
         self._connect(sshserver, ssh_kwargs, timeout)
         
         # last step: setup magics, if we are in IPython:
         
         try:
             ip = get_ipython()
         except NameError:
             return
         else:
             if 'px' not in ip.magics_manager.magics:
                 # in IPython but we are the first Client.
                 # activate a default view for parallel magics.
                 self.activate()
 
     def __del__(self):
         """cleanup sockets, but _not_ context."""
         self.close()
 
     def _setup_profile_dir(self, profile, profile_dir, ipython_dir):
         if ipython_dir is None:
             ipython_dir = get_ipython_dir()
         if profile_dir is not None:
             try:
                 self._cd = ProfileDir.find_profile_dir(profile_dir)
                 return
             except ProfileDirError:
                 pass
         elif profile is not None:
             try:
                 self._cd = ProfileDir.find_profile_dir_by_name(
                     ipython_dir, profile)
                 return
             except ProfileDirError:
                 pass
         self._cd = None
 
     def _update_engines(self, engines):
         """Update our engines dict and _ids from a dict of the form: {id:uuid}."""
         for k,v in engines.iteritems():
             eid = int(k)
             self._engines[eid] = v
             self._ids.append(eid)
         self._ids = sorted(self._ids)
         if sorted(self._engines.keys()) != range(len(self._engines)) and \
                         self._task_scheme == 'pure' and self._task_socket:
             self._stop_scheduling_tasks()
 
     def _stop_scheduling_tasks(self):
         """Stop scheduling tasks because an engine has been unregistered
         from a pure ZMQ scheduler.
         """
         self._task_socket.close()
         self._task_socket = None
         msg = "An engine has been unregistered, and we are using pure " +\
               "ZMQ task scheduling.  Task farming will be disabled."
         if self.outstanding:
             msg += " If you were running tasks when this happened, " +\
                    "some `outstanding` msg_ids may never resolve."
         warnings.warn(msg, RuntimeWarning)
 
     def _build_targets(self, targets):
         """Turn valid target IDs or 'all' into two lists:
         (int_ids, uuids).
         """
         if not self._ids:
             # flush notification socket if no engines yet, just in case
             if not self.ids:
                 raise error.NoEnginesRegistered("Can't build targets without any engines")
 
         if targets is None:
             targets = self._ids
         elif isinstance(targets, basestring):
             if targets.lower() == 'all':
                 targets = self._ids
             else:
                 raise TypeError("%r not valid str target, must be 'all'"%(targets))
         elif isinstance(targets, int):
             if targets < 0:
                 targets = self.ids[targets]
             if targets not in self._ids:
                 raise IndexError("No such engine: %i"%targets)
             targets = [targets]
 
         if isinstance(targets, slice):
             indices = range(len(self._ids))[targets]
             ids = self.ids
             targets = [ ids[i] for i in indices ]
 
         if not isinstance(targets, (tuple, list, xrange)):
             raise TypeError("targets by int/slice/collection of ints only, not %s"%(type(targets)))
 
         return [cast_bytes(self._engines[t]) for t in targets], list(targets)
 
     def _connect(self, sshserver, ssh_kwargs, timeout):
         """setup all our socket connections to the cluster. This is called from
         __init__."""
 
         # Maybe allow reconnecting?
         if self._connected:
             return
         self._connected=True
 
         def connect_socket(s, url):
-            url = util.disambiguate_url(url, self._config['location'])
+            # url = util.disambiguate_url(url, self._config['location'])
             if self._ssh:
                 return tunnel.tunnel_connection(s, url, sshserver, **ssh_kwargs)
             else:
                 return s.connect(url)
 
         self.session.send(self._query_socket, 'connection_request')
         # use Poller because zmq.select has wrong units in pyzmq 2.1.7
         poller = zmq.Poller()
         poller.register(self._query_socket, zmq.POLLIN)
         # poll expects milliseconds, timeout is seconds
         evts = poller.poll(timeout*1000)
         if not evts:
             raise error.TimeoutError("Hub connection request timed out")
         idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket,mode=0)
         if self.debug:
             pprint(msg)
-        msg = Message(msg)
-        content = msg.content
-        self._config['registration'] = dict(content)
-        if content.status == 'ok':
-            ident = self.session.bsession
-            if content.mux:
-                self._mux_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.DEALER)
-                connect_socket(self._mux_socket, content.mux)
-            if content.task:
-                self._task_scheme, task_addr = content.task
-                self._task_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.DEALER)
-                connect_socket(self._task_socket, task_addr)
-            if content.notification:
-                self._notification_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.SUB)
-                connect_socket(self._notification_socket, content.notification)
-                self._notification_socket.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, b'')
-            if content.control:
-                self._control_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.DEALER)
-                connect_socket(self._control_socket, content.control)
-            if content.iopub:
-                self._iopub_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.SUB)
-                self._iopub_socket.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, b'')
-                connect_socket(self._iopub_socket, content.iopub)
-            self._update_engines(dict(content.engines))
+        content = msg['content']
+        # self._config['registration'] = dict(content)
+        cfg = self._config
+        if content['status'] == 'ok':
+            self._mux_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.DEALER)
+            connect_socket(self._mux_socket, cfg['mux'])
+
+            self._task_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.DEALER)
+            connect_socket(self._task_socket, cfg['task'])
+
+            self._notification_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.SUB)
+            self._notification_socket.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, b'')
+            connect_socket(self._notification_socket, cfg['notification'])
+
+            self._control_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.DEALER)
+            connect_socket(self._control_socket, cfg['control'])
+
+            self._iopub_socket = self._context.socket(zmq.SUB)
+            self._iopub_socket.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, b'')
+            connect_socket(self._iopub_socket, cfg['iopub'])
+
+            self._update_engines(dict(content['engines']))
         else:
             self._connected = False
             raise Exception("Failed to connect!")
 
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # handlers and callbacks for incoming messages
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def _unwrap_exception(self, content):
         """unwrap exception, and remap engine_id to int."""
         e = error.unwrap_exception(content)
         # print e.traceback
         if e.engine_info:
             e_uuid = e.engine_info['engine_uuid']
             eid = self._engines[e_uuid]
             e.engine_info['engine_id'] = eid
         return e
 
     def _extract_metadata(self, header, parent, content):
         md = {'msg_id' : parent['msg_id'],
               'received' : datetime.now(),
               'engine_uuid' : header.get('engine', None),
               'follow' : parent.get('follow', []),
               'after' : parent.get('after', []),
               'status' : content['status'],
             }
 
         if md['engine_uuid'] is not None:
             md['engine_id'] = self._engines.get(md['engine_uuid'], None)
 
         if 'date' in parent:
             md['submitted'] = parent['date']
         if 'started' in header:
             md['started'] = header['started']
         if 'date' in header:
             md['completed'] = header['date']
         return md
 
     def _register_engine(self, msg):
         """Register a new engine, and update our connection info."""
         content = msg['content']
         eid = content['id']
         d = {eid : content['queue']}
         self._update_engines(d)
 
     def _unregister_engine(self, msg):
         """Unregister an engine that has died."""
         content = msg['content']
         eid = int(content['id'])
         if eid in self._ids:
             self._ids.remove(eid)
             uuid = self._engines.pop(eid)
 
             self._handle_stranded_msgs(eid, uuid)
 
         if self._task_socket and self._task_scheme == 'pure':
             self._stop_scheduling_tasks()
 
     def _handle_stranded_msgs(self, eid, uuid):
         """Handle messages known to be on an engine when the engine unregisters.
 
         It is possible that this will fire prematurely - that is, an engine will
         go down after completing a result, and the client will be notified
         of the unregistration and later receive the successful result.
         """
 
         outstanding = self._outstanding_dict[uuid]
 
         for msg_id in list(outstanding):
             if msg_id in self.results:
                 # we already
                 continue
             try:
                 raise error.EngineError("Engine %r died while running task %r"%(eid, msg_id))
             except:
                 content = error.wrap_exception()
             # build a fake message:
             parent = {}
             header = {}
             parent['msg_id'] = msg_id
             header['engine'] = uuid
             header['date'] = datetime.now()
             msg = dict(parent_header=parent, header=header, content=content)
             self._handle_apply_reply(msg)
 
     def _handle_execute_reply(self, msg):
         """Save the reply to an execute_request into our results.
 
         execute messages are never actually used. apply is used instead.
         """
 
         parent = msg['parent_header']
         msg_id = parent['msg_id']
         if msg_id not in self.outstanding:
             if msg_id in self.history:
                 print ("got stale result: %s"%msg_id)
             else:
                 print ("got unknown result: %s"%msg_id)
         else:
             self.outstanding.remove(msg_id)
 
         content = msg['content']
         header = msg['header']
 
         # construct metadata:
         md = self.metadata[msg_id]
         md.update(self._extract_metadata(header, parent, content))
         # is this redundant?
         self.metadata[msg_id] = md
         
         e_outstanding = self._outstanding_dict[md['engine_uuid']]
         if msg_id in e_outstanding:
             e_outstanding.remove(msg_id)
 
         # construct result:
         if content['status'] == 'ok':
             self.results[msg_id] = ExecuteReply(msg_id, content, md)
         elif content['status'] == 'aborted':
             self.results[msg_id] = error.TaskAborted(msg_id)
         elif content['status'] == 'resubmitted':
             # TODO: handle resubmission
             pass
         else:
             self.results[msg_id] = self._unwrap_exception(content)
 
     def _handle_apply_reply(self, msg):
         """Save the reply to an apply_request into our results."""
         parent = msg['parent_header']
         msg_id = parent['msg_id']
         if msg_id not in self.outstanding:
             if msg_id in self.history:
                 print ("got stale result: %s"%msg_id)
                 print self.results[msg_id]
                 print msg
             else:
                 print ("got unknown result: %s"%msg_id)
         else:
             self.outstanding.remove(msg_id)
         content = msg['content']
         header = msg['header']
 
         # construct metadata:
         md = self.metadata[msg_id]
         md.update(self._extract_metadata(header, parent, content))
         # is this redundant?
         self.metadata[msg_id] = md
 
         e_outstanding = self._outstanding_dict[md['engine_uuid']]
         if msg_id in e_outstanding:
             e_outstanding.remove(msg_id)
 
         # construct result:
         if content['status'] == 'ok':
             self.results[msg_id] = util.unserialize_object(msg['buffers'])[0]
         elif content['status'] == 'aborted':
             self.results[msg_id] = error.TaskAborted(msg_id)
         elif content['status'] == 'resubmitted':
             # TODO: handle resubmission
             pass
         else:
             self.results[msg_id] = self._unwrap_exception(content)
 
     def _flush_notifications(self):
         """Flush notifications of engine registrations waiting
         in ZMQ queue."""
         idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._notification_socket, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
         while msg is not None:
             if self.debug:
                 pprint(msg)
             msg_type = msg['header']['msg_type']
             handler = self._notification_handlers.get(msg_type, None)
             if handler is None:
                 raise Exception("Unhandled message type: %s"%msg.msg_type)
             else:
                 handler(msg)
             idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._notification_socket, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
 
     def _flush_results(self, sock):
         """Flush task or queue results waiting in ZMQ queue."""
         idents,msg = self.session.recv(sock, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
         while msg is not None:
             if self.debug:
                 pprint(msg)
             msg_type = msg['header']['msg_type']
             handler = self._queue_handlers.get(msg_type, None)
             if handler is None:
                 raise Exception("Unhandled message type: %s"%msg.msg_type)
             else:
                 handler(msg)
             idents,msg = self.session.recv(sock, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
 
     def _flush_control(self, sock):
         """Flush replies from the control channel waiting
         in the ZMQ queue.
 
         Currently: ignore them."""
         if self._ignored_control_replies <= 0:
             return
         idents,msg = self.session.recv(sock, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
         while msg is not None:
             self._ignored_control_replies -= 1
             if self.debug:
                 pprint(msg)
             idents,msg = self.session.recv(sock, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
 
     def _flush_ignored_control(self):
         """flush ignored control replies"""
         while self._ignored_control_replies > 0:
             self.session.recv(self._control_socket)
             self._ignored_control_replies -= 1
 
     def _flush_ignored_hub_replies(self):
         ident,msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
         while msg is not None:
             ident,msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
 
     def _flush_iopub(self, sock):
         """Flush replies from the iopub channel waiting
         in the ZMQ queue.
         """
         idents,msg = self.session.recv(sock, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
         while msg is not None:
             if self.debug:
                 pprint(msg)
             parent = msg['parent_header']
             # ignore IOPub messages with no parent.
             # Caused by print statements or warnings from before the first execution.
             if not parent:
                 continue
             msg_id = parent['msg_id']
             content = msg['content']
             header = msg['header']
             msg_type = msg['header']['msg_type']
 
             # init metadata:
             md = self.metadata[msg_id]
 
             if msg_type == 'stream':
                 name = content['name']
                 s = md[name] or ''
                 md[name] = s + content['data']
             elif msg_type == 'pyerr':
                 md.update({'pyerr' : self._unwrap_exception(content)})
             elif msg_type == 'pyin':
                 md.update({'pyin' : content['code']})
             elif msg_type == 'display_data':
                 md['outputs'].append(content)
             elif msg_type == 'pyout':
                 md['pyout'] = content
             elif msg_type == 'status':
                 # idle message comes after all outputs
                 if content['execution_state'] == 'idle':
                     md['outputs_ready'] = True
             else:
                 # unhandled msg_type (status, etc.)
                 pass
 
             # reduntant?
             self.metadata[msg_id] = md
 
             idents,msg = self.session.recv(sock, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK)
 
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # len, getitem
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def __len__(self):
         """len(client) returns # of engines."""
         return len(self.ids)
 
     def __getitem__(self, key):
         """index access returns DirectView multiplexer objects
 
         Must be int, slice, or list/tuple/xrange of ints"""
         if not isinstance(key, (int, slice, tuple, list, xrange)):
             raise TypeError("key by int/slice/iterable of ints only, not %s"%(type(key)))
         else:
             return self.direct_view(key)
 
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Begin public methods
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     @property
     def ids(self):
         """Always up-to-date ids property."""
         self._flush_notifications()
         # always copy:
         return list(self._ids)
 
     def activate(self, targets='all', suffix=''):
         """Create a DirectView and register it with IPython magics
         
         Defines the magics `%px, %autopx, %pxresult, %%px`
         
         Parameters
         ----------
         
         targets: int, list of ints, or 'all'
             The engines on which the view's magics will run
         suffix: str [default: '']
             The suffix, if any, for the magics.  This allows you to have
             multiple views associated with parallel magics at the same time.
             
             e.g. ``rc.activate(targets=0, suffix='0')`` will give you
             the magics ``%px0``, ``%pxresult0``, etc. for running magics just
             on engine 0.
         """
         view = self.direct_view(targets)
         view.block = True
         view.activate(suffix)
         return view
 
     def close(self):
         if self._closed:
             return
         self.stop_spin_thread()
         snames = filter(lambda n: n.endswith('socket'), dir(self))
         for socket in map(lambda name: getattr(self, name), snames):
             if isinstance(socket, zmq.Socket) and not socket.closed:
                 socket.close()
         self._closed = True
 
     def _spin_every(self, interval=1):
         """target func for use in spin_thread"""
         while True:
             if self._stop_spinning.is_set():
                 return
             time.sleep(interval)
             self.spin()
 
     def spin_thread(self, interval=1):
         """call Client.spin() in a background thread on some regular interval
         
         This helps ensure that messages don't pile up too much in the zmq queue
         while you are working on other things, or just leaving an idle terminal.
         
         It also helps limit potential padding of the `received` timestamp
         on AsyncResult objects, used for timings.
         
         Parameters
         ----------
         
         interval : float, optional
             The interval on which to spin the client in the background thread
             (simply passed to time.sleep).
         
         Notes
         -----
         
         For precision timing, you may want to use this method to put a bound
         on the jitter (in seconds) in `received` timestamps used
         in AsyncResult.wall_time.
         
         """
         if self._spin_thread is not None:
             self.stop_spin_thread()
         self._stop_spinning.clear()
         self._spin_thread = Thread(target=self._spin_every, args=(interval,))
         self._spin_thread.daemon = True
         self._spin_thread.start()
     
     def stop_spin_thread(self):
         """stop background spin_thread, if any"""
         if self._spin_thread is not None:
             self._stop_spinning.set()
             self._spin_thread.join()
             self._spin_thread = None
 
     def spin(self):
         """Flush any registration notifications and execution results
         waiting in the ZMQ queue.
         """
         if self._notification_socket:
             self._flush_notifications()
         if self._iopub_socket:
             self._flush_iopub(self._iopub_socket)
         if self._mux_socket:
             self._flush_results(self._mux_socket)
         if self._task_socket:
             self._flush_results(self._task_socket)
         if self._control_socket:
             self._flush_control(self._control_socket)
         if self._query_socket:
             self._flush_ignored_hub_replies()
 
     def wait(self, jobs=None, timeout=-1):
         """waits on one or more `jobs`, for up to `timeout` seconds.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         jobs : int, str, or list of ints and/or strs, or one or more AsyncResult objects
                 ints are indices to self.history
                 strs are msg_ids
                 default: wait on all outstanding messages
         timeout : float
                 a time in seconds, after which to give up.
                 default is -1, which means no timeout
 
         Returns
         -------
 
         True : when all msg_ids are done
         False : timeout reached, some msg_ids still outstanding
         """
         tic = time.time()
         if jobs is None:
             theids = self.outstanding
         else:
             if isinstance(jobs, (int, basestring, AsyncResult)):
                 jobs = [jobs]
             theids = set()
             for job in jobs:
                 if isinstance(job, int):
                     # index access
                     job = self.history[job]
                 elif isinstance(job, AsyncResult):
                     map(theids.add, job.msg_ids)
                     continue
                 theids.add(job)
         if not theids.intersection(self.outstanding):
             return True
         self.spin()
         while theids.intersection(self.outstanding):
             if timeout >= 0 and ( time.time()-tic ) > timeout:
                 break
             time.sleep(1e-3)
             self.spin()
         return len(theids.intersection(self.outstanding)) == 0
 
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Control methods
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     @spin_first
     def clear(self, targets=None, block=None):
         """Clear the namespace in target(s)."""
         block = self.block if block is None else block
         targets = self._build_targets(targets)[0]
         for t in targets:
             self.session.send(self._control_socket, 'clear_request', content={}, ident=t)
         error = False
         if block:
             self._flush_ignored_control()
             for i in range(len(targets)):
                 idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._control_socket,0)
                 if self.debug:
                     pprint(msg)
                 if msg['content']['status'] != 'ok':
                     error = self._unwrap_exception(msg['content'])
         else:
             self._ignored_control_replies += len(targets)
         if error:
             raise error
 
 
     @spin_first
     def abort(self, jobs=None, targets=None, block=None):
         """Abort specific jobs from the execution queues of target(s).
 
         This is a mechanism to prevent jobs that have already been submitted
         from executing.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         jobs : msg_id, list of msg_ids, or AsyncResult
             The jobs to be aborted
             
             If unspecified/None: abort all outstanding jobs.
 
         """
         block = self.block if block is None else block
         jobs = jobs if jobs is not None else list(self.outstanding)
         targets = self._build_targets(targets)[0]
         
         msg_ids = []
         if isinstance(jobs, (basestring,AsyncResult)):
             jobs = [jobs]
         bad_ids = filter(lambda obj: not isinstance(obj, (basestring, AsyncResult)), jobs)
         if bad_ids:
             raise TypeError("Invalid msg_id type %r, expected str or AsyncResult"%bad_ids[0])
         for j in jobs:
             if isinstance(j, AsyncResult):
                 msg_ids.extend(j.msg_ids)
             else:
                 msg_ids.append(j)
         content = dict(msg_ids=msg_ids)
         for t in targets:
             self.session.send(self._control_socket, 'abort_request',
                     content=content, ident=t)
         error = False
         if block:
             self._flush_ignored_control()
             for i in range(len(targets)):
                 idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._control_socket,0)
                 if self.debug:
                     pprint(msg)
                 if msg['content']['status'] != 'ok':
                     error = self._unwrap_exception(msg['content'])
         else:
             self._ignored_control_replies += len(targets)
         if error:
             raise error
 
     @spin_first
     def shutdown(self, targets='all', restart=False, hub=False, block=None):
         """Terminates one or more engine processes, optionally including the hub.
         
         Parameters
         ----------
         
         targets: list of ints or 'all' [default: all]
             Which engines to shutdown.
         hub: bool [default: False]
             Whether to include the Hub.  hub=True implies targets='all'.
         block: bool [default: self.block]
             Whether to wait for clean shutdown replies or not.
         restart: bool [default: False]
             NOT IMPLEMENTED
             whether to restart engines after shutting them down.
         """
         
         if restart:
             raise NotImplementedError("Engine restart is not yet implemented")
         
         block = self.block if block is None else block
         if hub:
             targets = 'all'
         targets = self._build_targets(targets)[0]
         for t in targets:
             self.session.send(self._control_socket, 'shutdown_request',
                         content={'restart':restart},ident=t)
         error = False
         if block or hub:
             self._flush_ignored_control()
             for i in range(len(targets)):
                 idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._control_socket, 0)
                 if self.debug:
                     pprint(msg)
                 if msg['content']['status'] != 'ok':
                     error = self._unwrap_exception(msg['content'])
         else:
             self._ignored_control_replies += len(targets)
 
         if hub:
             time.sleep(0.25)
             self.session.send(self._query_socket, 'shutdown_request')
             idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, 0)
             if self.debug:
                 pprint(msg)
             if msg['content']['status'] != 'ok':
                 error = self._unwrap_exception(msg['content'])
 
         if error:
             raise error
 
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Execution related methods
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def _maybe_raise(self, result):
         """wrapper for maybe raising an exception if apply failed."""
         if isinstance(result, error.RemoteError):
             raise result
 
         return result
 
     def send_apply_request(self, socket, f, args=None, kwargs=None, subheader=None, track=False,
                             ident=None):
         """construct and send an apply message via a socket.
 
         This is the principal method with which all engine execution is performed by views.
         """
 
         if self._closed:
             raise RuntimeError("Client cannot be used after its sockets have been closed")
         
         # defaults:
         args = args if args is not None else []
         kwargs = kwargs if kwargs is not None else {}
         subheader = subheader if subheader is not None else {}
 
         # validate arguments
         if not callable(f) and not isinstance(f, Reference):
             raise TypeError("f must be callable, not %s"%type(f))
         if not isinstance(args, (tuple, list)):
             raise TypeError("args must be tuple or list, not %s"%type(args))
         if not isinstance(kwargs, dict):
             raise TypeError("kwargs must be dict, not %s"%type(kwargs))
         if not isinstance(subheader, dict):
             raise TypeError("subheader must be dict, not %s"%type(subheader))
 
         bufs = util.pack_apply_message(f,args,kwargs)
 
         msg = self.session.send(socket, "apply_request", buffers=bufs, ident=ident,
                             subheader=subheader, track=track)
 
         msg_id = msg['header']['msg_id']
         self.outstanding.add(msg_id)
         if ident:
             # possibly routed to a specific engine
             if isinstance(ident, list):
                 ident = ident[-1]
             if ident in self._engines.values():
                 # save for later, in case of engine death
                 self._outstanding_dict[ident].add(msg_id)
         self.history.append(msg_id)
         self.metadata[msg_id]['submitted'] = datetime.now()
 
         return msg
 
     def send_execute_request(self, socket, code, silent=True, subheader=None, ident=None):
         """construct and send an execute request via a socket.
 
         """
 
         if self._closed:
             raise RuntimeError("Client cannot be used after its sockets have been closed")
         
         # defaults:
         subheader = subheader if subheader is not None else {}
 
         # validate arguments
         if not isinstance(code, basestring):
             raise TypeError("code must be text, not %s" % type(code))
         if not isinstance(subheader, dict):
             raise TypeError("subheader must be dict, not %s" % type(subheader))
         
         content = dict(code=code, silent=bool(silent), user_variables=[], user_expressions={})
 
 
         msg = self.session.send(socket, "execute_request", content=content, ident=ident,
                             subheader=subheader)
 
         msg_id = msg['header']['msg_id']
         self.outstanding.add(msg_id)
         if ident:
             # possibly routed to a specific engine
             if isinstance(ident, list):
                 ident = ident[-1]
             if ident in self._engines.values():
                 # save for later, in case of engine death
                 self._outstanding_dict[ident].add(msg_id)
         self.history.append(msg_id)
         self.metadata[msg_id]['submitted'] = datetime.now()
 
         return msg
 
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # construct a View object
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def load_balanced_view(self, targets=None):
         """construct a DirectView object.
 
         If no arguments are specified, create a LoadBalancedView
         using all engines.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         targets: list,slice,int,etc. [default: use all engines]
             The subset of engines across which to load-balance
         """
         if targets == 'all':
             targets = None
         if targets is not None:
             targets = self._build_targets(targets)[1]
         return LoadBalancedView(client=self, socket=self._task_socket, targets=targets)
 
     def direct_view(self, targets='all'):
         """construct a DirectView object.
 
         If no targets are specified, create a DirectView using all engines.
         
         rc.direct_view('all') is distinguished from rc[:] in that 'all' will
         evaluate the target engines at each execution, whereas rc[:] will connect to
         all *current* engines, and that list will not change.
         
         That is, 'all' will always use all engines, whereas rc[:] will not use
         engines added after the DirectView is constructed.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         targets: list,slice,int,etc. [default: use all engines]
             The engines to use for the View
         """
         single = isinstance(targets, int)
         # allow 'all' to be lazily evaluated at each execution
         if targets != 'all':
             targets = self._build_targets(targets)[1]
         if single:
             targets = targets[0]
         return DirectView(client=self, socket=self._mux_socket, targets=targets)
 
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Query methods
     #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     @spin_first
     def get_result(self, indices_or_msg_ids=None, block=None):
         """Retrieve a result by msg_id or history index, wrapped in an AsyncResult object.
 
         If the client already has the results, no request to the Hub will be made.
 
         This is a convenient way to construct AsyncResult objects, which are wrappers
         that include metadata about execution, and allow for awaiting results that
         were not submitted by this Client.
 
         It can also be a convenient way to retrieve the metadata associated with
         blocking execution, since it always retrieves
 
         Examples
         --------
         ::
 
             In [10]: r = client.apply()
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         indices_or_msg_ids : integer history index, str msg_id, or list of either
             The indices or msg_ids of indices to be retrieved
 
         block : bool
             Whether to wait for the result to be done
 
         Returns
         -------
 
         AsyncResult
             A single AsyncResult object will always be returned.
 
         AsyncHubResult
             A subclass of AsyncResult that retrieves results from the Hub
 
         """
         block = self.block if block is None else block
         if indices_or_msg_ids is None:
             indices_or_msg_ids = -1
 
         if not isinstance(indices_or_msg_ids, (list,tuple)):
             indices_or_msg_ids = [indices_or_msg_ids]
 
         theids = []
         for id in indices_or_msg_ids:
             if isinstance(id, int):
                 id = self.history[id]
             if not isinstance(id, basestring):
                 raise TypeError("indices must be str or int, not %r"%id)
             theids.append(id)
 
         local_ids = filter(lambda msg_id: msg_id in self.history or msg_id in self.results, theids)
         remote_ids = filter(lambda msg_id: msg_id not in local_ids, theids)
 
         if remote_ids:
             ar = AsyncHubResult(self, msg_ids=theids)
         else:
             ar = AsyncResult(self, msg_ids=theids)
 
         if block:
             ar.wait()
 
         return ar
 
     @spin_first
     def resubmit(self, indices_or_msg_ids=None, subheader=None, block=None):
         """Resubmit one or more tasks.
 
         in-flight tasks may not be resubmitted.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         indices_or_msg_ids : integer history index, str msg_id, or list of either
             The indices or msg_ids of indices to be retrieved
 
         block : bool
             Whether to wait for the result to be done
 
         Returns
         -------
 
         AsyncHubResult
             A subclass of AsyncResult that retrieves results from the Hub
 
         """
         block = self.block if block is None else block
         if indices_or_msg_ids is None:
             indices_or_msg_ids = -1
 
         if not isinstance(indices_or_msg_ids, (list,tuple)):
             indices_or_msg_ids = [indices_or_msg_ids]
 
         theids = []
         for id in indices_or_msg_ids:
             if isinstance(id, int):
                 id = self.history[id]
             if not isinstance(id, basestring):
                 raise TypeError("indices must be str or int, not %r"%id)
             theids.append(id)
 
         content = dict(msg_ids = theids)
 
         self.session.send(self._query_socket, 'resubmit_request', content)
 
         zmq.select([self._query_socket], [], [])
         idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, zmq.NOBLOCK)
         if self.debug:
             pprint(msg)
         content = msg['content']
         if content['status'] != 'ok':
             raise self._unwrap_exception(content)
         mapping = content['resubmitted']
         new_ids = [ mapping[msg_id] for msg_id in theids ]
 
         ar = AsyncHubResult(self, msg_ids=new_ids)
 
         if block:
             ar.wait()
 
         return ar
 
     @spin_first
     def result_status(self, msg_ids, status_only=True):
         """Check on the status of the result(s) of the apply request with `msg_ids`.
 
         If status_only is False, then the actual results will be retrieved, else
         only the status of the results will be checked.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         msg_ids : list of msg_ids
             if int:
                 Passed as index to self.history for convenience.
         status_only : bool (default: True)
             if False:
                 Retrieve the actual results of completed tasks.
 
         Returns
         -------
 
         results : dict
             There will always be the keys 'pending' and 'completed', which will
             be lists of msg_ids that are incomplete or complete. If `status_only`
             is False, then completed results will be keyed by their `msg_id`.
         """
         if not isinstance(msg_ids, (list,tuple)):
             msg_ids = [msg_ids]
 
         theids = []
         for msg_id in msg_ids:
             if isinstance(msg_id, int):
                 msg_id = self.history[msg_id]
             if not isinstance(msg_id, basestring):
                 raise TypeError("msg_ids must be str, not %r"%msg_id)
             theids.append(msg_id)
 
         completed = []
         local_results = {}
 
         # comment this block out to temporarily disable local shortcut:
         for msg_id in theids:
             if msg_id in self.results:
                 completed.append(msg_id)
                 local_results[msg_id] = self.results[msg_id]
                 theids.remove(msg_id)
 
         if theids: # some not locally cached
             content = dict(msg_ids=theids, status_only=status_only)
             msg = self.session.send(self._query_socket, "result_request", content=content)
             zmq.select([self._query_socket], [], [])
             idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, zmq.NOBLOCK)
             if self.debug:
                 pprint(msg)
             content = msg['content']
             if content['status'] != 'ok':
                 raise self._unwrap_exception(content)
             buffers = msg['buffers']
         else:
             content = dict(completed=[],pending=[])
 
         content['completed'].extend(completed)
 
         if status_only:
             return content
 
         failures = []
         # load cached results into result:
         content.update(local_results)
 
         # update cache with results:
         for msg_id in sorted(theids):
             if msg_id in content['completed']:
                 rec = content[msg_id]
                 parent = rec['header']
                 header = rec['result_header']
                 rcontent = rec['result_content']
                 iodict = rec['io']
                 if isinstance(rcontent, str):
                     rcontent = self.session.unpack(rcontent)
 
                 md = self.metadata[msg_id]
                 md.update(self._extract_metadata(header, parent, rcontent))
                 if rec.get('received'):
                     md['received'] = rec['received']
                 md.update(iodict)
                 
                 if rcontent['status'] == 'ok':
                     if header['msg_type'] == 'apply_reply':
                         res,buffers = util.unserialize_object(buffers)
                     elif header['msg_type'] == 'execute_reply':
                         res = ExecuteReply(msg_id, rcontent, md)
                     else:
                         raise KeyError("unhandled msg type: %r" % header[msg_type])
                 else:
                     res = self._unwrap_exception(rcontent)
                     failures.append(res)
 
                 self.results[msg_id] = res
                 content[msg_id] = res
 
         if len(theids) == 1 and failures:
             raise failures[0]
 
         error.collect_exceptions(failures, "result_status")
         return content
 
     @spin_first
     def queue_status(self, targets='all', verbose=False):
         """Fetch the status of engine queues.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         targets : int/str/list of ints/strs
                 the engines whose states are to be queried.
                 default : all
         verbose : bool
                 Whether to return lengths only, or lists of ids for each element
         """
         if targets == 'all':
             # allow 'all' to be evaluated on the engine
             engine_ids = None
         else:
             engine_ids = self._build_targets(targets)[1]
         content = dict(targets=engine_ids, verbose=verbose)
         self.session.send(self._query_socket, "queue_request", content=content)
         idents,msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, 0)
         if self.debug:
             pprint(msg)
         content = msg['content']
         status = content.pop('status')
         if status != 'ok':
             raise self._unwrap_exception(content)
         content = rekey(content)
         if isinstance(targets, int):
             return content[targets]
         else:
             return content
 
     @spin_first
     def purge_results(self, jobs=[], targets=[]):
         """Tell the Hub to forget results.
 
         Individual results can be purged by msg_id, or the entire
         history of specific targets can be purged.
 
         Use `purge_results('all')` to scrub everything from the Hub's db.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         jobs : str or list of str or AsyncResult objects
                 the msg_ids whose results should be forgotten.
         targets : int/str/list of ints/strs
                 The targets, by int_id, whose entire history is to be purged.
 
                 default : None
         """
         if not targets and not jobs:
             raise ValueError("Must specify at least one of `targets` and `jobs`")
         if targets:
             targets = self._build_targets(targets)[1]
 
         # construct msg_ids from jobs
         if jobs == 'all':
             msg_ids = jobs
         else:
             msg_ids = []
             if isinstance(jobs, (basestring,AsyncResult)):
                 jobs = [jobs]
             bad_ids = filter(lambda obj: not isinstance(obj, (basestring, AsyncResult)), jobs)
             if bad_ids:
                 raise TypeError("Invalid msg_id type %r, expected str or AsyncResult"%bad_ids[0])
             for j in jobs:
                 if isinstance(j, AsyncResult):
                     msg_ids.extend(j.msg_ids)
                 else:
                     msg_ids.append(j)
 
         content = dict(engine_ids=targets, msg_ids=msg_ids)
         self.session.send(self._query_socket, "purge_request", content=content)
         idents, msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, 0)
         if self.debug:
             pprint(msg)
         content = msg['content']
         if content['status'] != 'ok':
             raise self._unwrap_exception(content)
 
     @spin_first
     def hub_history(self):
         """Get the Hub's history
 
         Just like the Client, the Hub has a history, which is a list of msg_ids.
         This will contain the history of all clients, and, depending on configuration,
         may contain history across multiple cluster sessions.
 
         Any msg_id returned here is a valid argument to `get_result`.
 
         Returns
         -------
 
         msg_ids : list of strs
                 list of all msg_ids, ordered by task submission time.
         """
 
         self.session.send(self._query_socket, "history_request", content={})
         idents, msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, 0)
 
         if self.debug:
             pprint(msg)
         content = msg['content']
         if content['status'] != 'ok':
             raise self._unwrap_exception(content)
         else:
             return content['history']
 
     @spin_first
     def db_query(self, query, keys=None):
         """Query the Hub's TaskRecord database
 
         This will return a list of task record dicts that match `query`
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         query : mongodb query dict
             The search dict. See mongodb query docs for details.
         keys : list of strs [optional]
             The subset of keys to be returned.  The default is to fetch everything but buffers.
             'msg_id' will *always* be included.
         """
         if isinstance(keys, basestring):
             keys = [keys]
         content = dict(query=query, keys=keys)
         self.session.send(self._query_socket, "db_request", content=content)
         idents, msg = self.session.recv(self._query_socket, 0)
         if self.debug:
             pprint(msg)
         content = msg['content']
         if content['status'] != 'ok':
             raise self._unwrap_exception(content)
 
         records = content['records']
 
         buffer_lens = content['buffer_lens']
         result_buffer_lens = content['result_buffer_lens']
         buffers = msg['buffers']
         has_bufs = buffer_lens is not None
         has_rbufs = result_buffer_lens is not None
         for i,rec in enumerate(records):
             # relink buffers
             if has_bufs:
                 blen = buffer_lens[i]
                 rec['buffers'], buffers = buffers[:blen],buffers[blen:]
             if has_rbufs:
                 blen = result_buffer_lens[i]
                 rec['result_buffers'], buffers = buffers[:blen],buffers[blen:]
 
         return records
 
 __all__ = [ 'Client' ]

IPython/parallel/controller/hub.py

@@ -1,1338 +1,1342 b''
 """The IPython Controller Hub with 0MQ
 This is the master object that handles connections from engines and clients,
 and monitors traffic through the various queues.
 
 Authors:
 
 * Min RK
 """
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2010-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import sys
 import time
 from datetime import datetime
 
 import zmq
 from zmq.eventloop import ioloop
 from zmq.eventloop.zmqstream import ZMQStream
 
 # internal:
 from IPython.utils.importstring import import_item
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_bytes
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import (
         HasTraits, Instance, Integer, Unicode, Dict, Set, Tuple, CBytes, DottedObjectName
         )
 
 from IPython.parallel import error, util
 from IPython.parallel.factory import RegistrationFactory
 
 from IPython.zmq.session import SessionFactory
 
 from .heartmonitor import HeartMonitor
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Code
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def _passer(*args, **kwargs):
     return
 
 def _printer(*args, **kwargs):
     print (args)
     print (kwargs)
 
 def empty_record():
     """Return an empty dict with all record keys."""
     return {
         'msg_id' : None,
         'header' : None,
         'content': None,
         'buffers': None,
         'submitted': None,
         'client_uuid' : None,
         'engine_uuid' : None,
         'started': None,
         'completed': None,
         'resubmitted': None,
         'received': None,
         'result_header' : None,
         'result_content' : None,
         'result_buffers' : None,
         'queue' : None,
         'pyin' : None,
         'pyout': None,
         'pyerr': None,
         'stdout': '',
         'stderr': '',
     }
 
 def init_record(msg):
     """Initialize a TaskRecord based on a request."""
     header = msg['header']
     return {
         'msg_id' : header['msg_id'],
         'header' : header,
         'content': msg['content'],
         'buffers': msg['buffers'],
         'submitted': header['date'],
         'client_uuid' : None,
         'engine_uuid' : None,
         'started': None,
         'completed': None,
         'resubmitted': None,
         'received': None,
         'result_header' : None,
         'result_content' : None,
         'result_buffers' : None,
         'queue' : None,
         'pyin' : None,
         'pyout': None,
         'pyerr': None,
         'stdout': '',
         'stderr': '',
     }
 
 
 class EngineConnector(HasTraits):
     """A simple object for accessing the various zmq connections of an object.
     Attributes are:
     id (int): engine ID
     uuid (str): uuid (unused?)
     queue (str): identity of queue's DEALER socket
     registration (str): identity of registration DEALER socket
     heartbeat (str): identity of heartbeat DEALER socket
     """
     id=Integer(0)
     queue=CBytes()
     control=CBytes()
     registration=CBytes()
     heartbeat=CBytes()
     pending=Set()
 
 _db_shortcuts = {
     'sqlitedb' : 'IPython.parallel.controller.sqlitedb.SQLiteDB',
     'mongodb'  : 'IPython.parallel.controller.mongodb.MongoDB',
     'dictdb'   : 'IPython.parallel.controller.dictdb.DictDB',
     'nodb'     : 'IPython.parallel.controller.dictdb.NoDB',
 }
 
 class HubFactory(RegistrationFactory):
     """The Configurable for setting up a Hub."""
 
     # port-pairs for monitoredqueues:
     hb = Tuple(Integer,Integer,config=True,
         help="""DEALER/SUB Port pair for Engine heartbeats""")
     def _hb_default(self):
         return tuple(util.select_random_ports(2))
 
     mux = Tuple(Integer,Integer,config=True,
         help="""Engine/Client Port pair for MUX queue""")
 
     def _mux_default(self):
         return tuple(util.select_random_ports(2))
 
     task = Tuple(Integer,Integer,config=True,
         help="""Engine/Client Port pair for Task queue""")
     def _task_default(self):
         return tuple(util.select_random_ports(2))
 
     control = Tuple(Integer,Integer,config=True,
         help="""Engine/Client Port pair for Control queue""")
 
     def _control_default(self):
         return tuple(util.select_random_ports(2))
 
     iopub = Tuple(Integer,Integer,config=True,
         help="""Engine/Client Port pair for IOPub relay""")
 
     def _iopub_default(self):
         return tuple(util.select_random_ports(2))
 
     # single ports:
     mon_port = Integer(config=True,
         help="""Monitor (SUB) port for queue traffic""")
 
     def _mon_port_default(self):
         return util.select_random_ports(1)[0]
 
     notifier_port = Integer(config=True,
         help="""PUB port for sending engine status notifications""")
 
     def _notifier_port_default(self):
         return util.select_random_ports(1)[0]
 
     engine_ip = Unicode('127.0.0.1', config=True,
         help="IP on which to listen for engine connections. [default: loopback]")
     engine_transport = Unicode('tcp', config=True,
         help="0MQ transport for engine connections. [default: tcp]")
 
     client_ip = Unicode('127.0.0.1', config=True,
         help="IP on which to listen for client connections. [default: loopback]")
     client_transport = Unicode('tcp', config=True,
         help="0MQ transport for client connections. [default : tcp]")
 
     monitor_ip = Unicode('127.0.0.1', config=True,
         help="IP on which to listen for monitor messages. [default: loopback]")
     monitor_transport = Unicode('tcp', config=True,
         help="0MQ transport for monitor messages. [default : tcp]")
 
     monitor_url = Unicode('')
 
     db_class = DottedObjectName('NoDB',
         config=True, help="""The class to use for the DB backend
         
         Options include:
         
         SQLiteDB: SQLite
         MongoDB : use MongoDB
         DictDB  : in-memory storage (fastest, but be mindful of memory growth of the Hub)
         NoDB    : disable database altogether (default)
         
         """)
 
     # not configurable
     db = Instance('IPython.parallel.controller.dictdb.BaseDB')
     heartmonitor = Instance('IPython.parallel.controller.heartmonitor.HeartMonitor')
 
     def _ip_changed(self, name, old, new):
         self.engine_ip = new
         self.client_ip = new
         self.monitor_ip = new
         self._update_monitor_url()
 
     def _update_monitor_url(self):
         self.monitor_url = "%s://%s:%i" % (self.monitor_transport, self.monitor_ip, self.mon_port)
 
     def _transport_changed(self, name, old, new):
         self.engine_transport = new
         self.client_transport = new
         self.monitor_transport = new
         self._update_monitor_url()
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         super(HubFactory, self).__init__(**kwargs)
         self._update_monitor_url()
 
 
     def construct(self):
         self.init_hub()
 
     def start(self):
         self.heartmonitor.start()
         self.log.info("Heartmonitor started")
 
     def init_hub(self):
         """construct"""
         client_iface = "%s://%s:" % (self.client_transport, self.client_ip) + "%i"
         engine_iface = "%s://%s:" % (self.engine_transport, self.engine_ip) + "%i"
 
         ctx = self.context
         loop = self.loop
 
+        try:
+            scheme = self.config.TaskScheduler.scheme_name
+        except AttributeError:
+            from .scheduler import TaskScheduler
+            scheme = TaskScheduler.scheme_name.get_default_value()
+        
+        # build connection dicts
+        engine = self.engine_info = {
+            'registration'  : engine_iface % self.regport,
+            'control'       : engine_iface % self.control[1],
+            'mux'           : engine_iface % self.mux[1],
+            'hb_ping'       : engine_iface % self.hb[0],
+            'hb_pong'       : engine_iface % self.hb[1],
+            'task'          : engine_iface % self.task[1],
+            'iopub'         : engine_iface % self.iopub[1],
+            }
+
+        client = self.client_info = {
+            'registration'  : client_iface % self.regport,
+            'control'       : client_iface % self.control[0],
+            'mux'           : client_iface % self.mux[0],
+            'task'          : client_iface % self.task[0],
+            'task_scheme'   : scheme,
+            'iopub'         : client_iface % self.iopub[0],
+            'notification'  : client_iface % self.notifier_port,
+            }
+        
+        self.log.debug("Hub engine addrs: %s", self.engine_info)
+        self.log.debug("Hub client addrs: %s", self.client_info)
+        
         # Registrar socket
         q = ZMQStream(ctx.socket(zmq.ROUTER), loop)
-        q.bind(client_iface % self.regport)
+        q.bind(client['registration'])
         self.log.info("Hub listening on %s for registration.", client_iface % self.regport)
         if self.client_ip != self.engine_ip:
-            q.bind(engine_iface % self.regport)
+            q.bind(engine['registration'])
             self.log.info("Hub listening on %s for registration.", engine_iface % self.regport)
 
         ### Engine connections ###
 
         # heartbeat
         hpub = ctx.socket(zmq.PUB)
-        hpub.bind(engine_iface % self.hb[0])
+        hpub.bind(engine['hb_ping'])
         hrep = ctx.socket(zmq.ROUTER)
-        hrep.bind(engine_iface % self.hb[1])
+        hrep.bind(engine['hb_pong'])
         self.heartmonitor = HeartMonitor(loop=loop, config=self.config, log=self.log,
                                 pingstream=ZMQStream(hpub,loop),
                                 pongstream=ZMQStream(hrep,loop)
                             )
 
         ### Client connections ###
+        
         # Notifier socket
         n = ZMQStream(ctx.socket(zmq.PUB), loop)
-        n.bind(client_iface%self.notifier_port)
+        n.bind(client['notification'])
 
         ### build and launch the queues ###
 
         # monitor socket
         sub = ctx.socket(zmq.SUB)
         sub.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, b"")
         sub.bind(self.monitor_url)
         sub.bind('inproc://monitor')
         sub = ZMQStream(sub, loop)
 
         # connect the db
         db_class = _db_shortcuts.get(self.db_class.lower(), self.db_class)
         self.log.info('Hub using DB backend: %r', (db_class.split('.')[-1]))
         self.db = import_item(str(db_class))(session=self.session.session,
                                             config=self.config, log=self.log)
         time.sleep(.25)
-        try:
-            scheme = self.config.TaskScheduler.scheme_name
-        except AttributeError:
-            from .scheduler import TaskScheduler
-            scheme = TaskScheduler.scheme_name.get_default_value()
-        # build connection dicts
-        self.engine_info = {
-            'control' : engine_iface%self.control[1],
-            'mux': engine_iface%self.mux[1],
-            'heartbeat': (engine_iface%self.hb[0], engine_iface%self.hb[1]),
-            'task' : engine_iface%self.task[1],
-            'iopub' : engine_iface%self.iopub[1],
-            # 'monitor' : engine_iface%self.mon_port,
-            }
-
-        self.client_info = {
-            'control' : client_iface%self.control[0],
-            'mux': client_iface%self.mux[0],
-            'task' : (scheme, client_iface%self.task[0]),
-            'iopub' : client_iface%self.iopub[0],
-            'notification': client_iface%self.notifier_port
-            }
-        self.log.debug("Hub engine addrs: %s", self.engine_info)
-        self.log.debug("Hub client addrs: %s", self.client_info)
 
         # resubmit stream
         r = ZMQStream(ctx.socket(zmq.DEALER), loop)
-        url = util.disambiguate_url(self.client_info['task'][-1])
-        r.setsockopt(zmq.IDENTITY, self.session.bsession)
+        url = util.disambiguate_url(self.client_info['task'])
         r.connect(url)
 
         self.hub = Hub(loop=loop, session=self.session, monitor=sub, heartmonitor=self.heartmonitor,
                 query=q, notifier=n, resubmit=r, db=self.db,
                 engine_info=self.engine_info, client_info=self.client_info,
                 log=self.log)
 
 
 class Hub(SessionFactory):
     """The IPython Controller Hub with 0MQ connections
 
     Parameters
     ==========
     loop: zmq IOLoop instance
     session: Session object
     <removed> context: zmq context for creating new connections (?)
     queue: ZMQStream for monitoring the command queue (SUB)
     query: ZMQStream for engine registration and client queries requests (ROUTER)
     heartbeat: HeartMonitor object checking the pulse of the engines
     notifier: ZMQStream for broadcasting engine registration changes (PUB)
     db: connection to db for out of memory logging of commands
                 NotImplemented
     engine_info: dict of zmq connection information for engines to connect
                 to the queues.
     client_info: dict of zmq connection information for engines to connect
                 to the queues.
     """
     # internal data structures:
     ids=Set() # engine IDs
     keytable=Dict()
     by_ident=Dict()
     engines=Dict()
     clients=Dict()
     hearts=Dict()
     pending=Set()
     queues=Dict()  # pending msg_ids keyed by engine_id
     tasks=Dict() # pending msg_ids submitted as tasks, keyed by client_id
     completed=Dict() # completed msg_ids keyed by engine_id
     all_completed=Set() # completed msg_ids keyed by engine_id
     dead_engines=Set() # completed msg_ids keyed by engine_id
     unassigned=Set() # set of task msg_ds not yet assigned a destination
     incoming_registrations=Dict()
     registration_timeout=Integer()
     _idcounter=Integer(0)
 
     # objects from constructor:
     query=Instance(ZMQStream)
     monitor=Instance(ZMQStream)
     notifier=Instance(ZMQStream)
     resubmit=Instance(ZMQStream)
     heartmonitor=Instance(HeartMonitor)
     db=Instance(object)
     client_info=Dict()
     engine_info=Dict()
 
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         """
         # universal:
         loop: IOLoop for creating future connections
         session: streamsession for sending serialized data
         # engine:
         queue: ZMQStream for monitoring queue messages
         query: ZMQStream for engine+client registration and client requests
         heartbeat: HeartMonitor object for tracking engines
         # extra:
         db: ZMQStream for db connection (NotImplemented)
         engine_info: zmq address/protocol dict for engine connections
         client_info: zmq address/protocol dict for client connections
         """
 
         super(Hub, self).__init__(**kwargs)
         self.registration_timeout = max(5000, 2*self.heartmonitor.period)
 
         # validate connection dicts:
         for k,v in self.client_info.iteritems():
-            if k == 'task':
-                util.validate_url_container(v[1])
+            if k == 'task_scheme':
+                continue
             else:
                 util.validate_url_container(v)
         # util.validate_url_container(self.client_info)
         util.validate_url_container(self.engine_info)
 
         # register our callbacks
         self.query.on_recv(self.dispatch_query)
         self.monitor.on_recv(self.dispatch_monitor_traffic)
 
         self.heartmonitor.add_heart_failure_handler(self.handle_heart_failure)
         self.heartmonitor.add_new_heart_handler(self.handle_new_heart)
 
         self.monitor_handlers = {b'in' : self.save_queue_request,
                                 b'out': self.save_queue_result,
                                 b'intask': self.save_task_request,
                                 b'outtask': self.save_task_result,
                                 b'tracktask': self.save_task_destination,
                                 b'incontrol': _passer,
                                 b'outcontrol': _passer,
                                 b'iopub': self.save_iopub_message,
         }
 
         self.query_handlers = {'queue_request': self.queue_status,
                                 'result_request': self.get_results,
                                 'history_request': self.get_history,
                                 'db_request': self.db_query,
                                 'purge_request': self.purge_results,
                                 'load_request': self.check_load,
                                 'resubmit_request': self.resubmit_task,
                                 'shutdown_request': self.shutdown_request,
                                 'registration_request' : self.register_engine,
                                 'unregistration_request' : self.unregister_engine,
                                 'connection_request': self.connection_request,
         }
 
         # ignore resubmit replies
         self.resubmit.on_recv(lambda msg: None, copy=False)
 
         self.log.info("hub::created hub")
 
     @property
     def _next_id(self):
         """gemerate a new ID.
 
         No longer reuse old ids, just count from 0."""
         newid = self._idcounter
         self._idcounter += 1
         return newid
         # newid = 0
         # incoming = [id[0] for id in self.incoming_registrations.itervalues()]
         # # print newid, self.ids, self.incoming_registrations
         # while newid in self.ids or newid in incoming:
         #     newid += 1
         # return newid
 
     #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # message validation
     #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def _validate_targets(self, targets):
         """turn any valid targets argument into a list of integer ids"""
         if targets is None:
             # default to all
             return self.ids
 
         if isinstance(targets, (int,str,unicode)):
             # only one target specified
             targets = [targets]
         _targets = []
         for t in targets:
             # map raw identities to ids
             if isinstance(t, (str,unicode)):
                 t = self.by_ident.get(cast_bytes(t), t)
             _targets.append(t)
         targets = _targets
         bad_targets = [ t for t in targets if t not in self.ids ]
         if bad_targets:
             raise IndexError("No Such Engine: %r" % bad_targets)
         if not targets:
             raise IndexError("No Engines Registered")
         return targets
 
     #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # dispatch methods (1 per stream)
     #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
     @util.log_errors
     def dispatch_monitor_traffic(self, msg):
         """all ME and Task queue messages come through here, as well as
         IOPub traffic."""
         self.log.debug("monitor traffic: %r", msg[0])
         switch = msg[0]
         try:
             idents, msg = self.session.feed_identities(msg[1:])
         except ValueError:
             idents=[]
         if not idents:
             self.log.error("Monitor message without topic: %r", msg)
             return
         handler = self.monitor_handlers.get(switch, None)
         if handler is not None:
             handler(idents, msg)
         else:
             self.log.error("Unrecognized monitor topic: %r", switch)
 
 
     @util.log_errors
     def dispatch_query(self, msg):
         """Route registration requests and queries from clients."""
         try:
             idents, msg = self.session.feed_identities(msg)
         except ValueError:
             idents = []
         if not idents:
             self.log.error("Bad Query Message: %r", msg)
             return
         client_id = idents[0]
         try:
             msg = self.session.unserialize(msg, content=True)
         except Exception:
             content = error.wrap_exception()
             self.log.error("Bad Query Message: %r", msg, exc_info=True)
             self.session.send(self.query, "hub_error", ident=client_id,
                     content=content)
             return
         # print client_id, header, parent, content
         #switch on message type:
         msg_type = msg['header']['msg_type']
         self.log.info("client::client %r requested %r", client_id, msg_type)
         handler = self.query_handlers.get(msg_type, None)
         try:
             assert handler is not None, "Bad Message Type: %r" % msg_type
         except:
             content = error.wrap_exception()
             self.log.error("Bad Message Type: %r", msg_type, exc_info=True)
             self.session.send(self.query, "hub_error", ident=client_id,
                     content=content)
             return
 
         else:
             handler(idents, msg)
 
     def dispatch_db(self, msg):
         """"""
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # handler methods (1 per event)
     #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     #----------------------- Heartbeat --------------------------------------
 
     def handle_new_heart(self, heart):
         """handler to attach to heartbeater.
         Called when a new heart starts to beat.
         Triggers completion of registration."""
         self.log.debug("heartbeat::handle_new_heart(%r)", heart)
         if heart not in self.incoming_registrations:
             self.log.info("heartbeat::ignoring new heart: %r", heart)
         else:
             self.finish_registration(heart)
 
 
     def handle_heart_failure(self, heart):
         """handler to attach to heartbeater.
         called when a previously registered heart fails to respond to beat request.
         triggers unregistration"""
         self.log.debug("heartbeat::handle_heart_failure(%r)", heart)
         eid = self.hearts.get(heart, None)
         queue = self.engines[eid].queue
         if eid is None or self.keytable[eid] in self.dead_engines:
             self.log.info("heartbeat::ignoring heart failure %r (not an engine or already dead)", heart)
         else:
             self.unregister_engine(heart, dict(content=dict(id=eid, queue=queue)))
 
     #----------------------- MUX Queue Traffic ------------------------------
 
     def save_queue_request(self, idents, msg):
         if len(idents) < 2:
             self.log.error("invalid identity prefix: %r", idents)
             return
         queue_id, client_id = idents[:2]
         try:
             msg = self.session.unserialize(msg)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("queue::client %r sent invalid message to %r: %r", client_id, queue_id, msg, exc_info=True)
             return
 
         eid = self.by_ident.get(queue_id, None)
         if eid is None:
             self.log.error("queue::target %r not registered", queue_id)
             self.log.debug("queue::    valid are: %r", self.by_ident.keys())
             return
         record = init_record(msg)
         msg_id = record['msg_id']
         self.log.info("queue::client %r submitted request %r to %s", client_id, msg_id, eid)
         # Unicode in records
         record['engine_uuid'] = queue_id.decode('ascii')
         record['client_uuid'] = msg['header']['session']
         record['queue'] = 'mux'
 
         try:
             # it's posible iopub arrived first:
             existing = self.db.get_record(msg_id)
             for key,evalue in existing.iteritems():
                 rvalue = record.get(key, None)
                 if evalue and rvalue and evalue != rvalue:
                     self.log.warn("conflicting initial state for record: %r:%r <%r> %r", msg_id, rvalue, key, evalue)
                 elif evalue and not rvalue:
                     record[key] = evalue
             try:
                 self.db.update_record(msg_id, record)
             except Exception:
                 self.log.error("DB Error updating record %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
         except KeyError:
             try:
                 self.db.add_record(msg_id, record)
             except Exception:
                 self.log.error("DB Error adding record %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
 
 
         self.pending.add(msg_id)
         self.queues[eid].append(msg_id)
 
     def save_queue_result(self, idents, msg):
         if len(idents) < 2:
             self.log.error("invalid identity prefix: %r", idents)
             return
 
         client_id, queue_id = idents[:2]
         try:
             msg = self.session.unserialize(msg)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("queue::engine %r sent invalid message to %r: %r",
                     queue_id, client_id, msg, exc_info=True)
             return
 
         eid = self.by_ident.get(queue_id, None)
         if eid is None:
             self.log.error("queue::unknown engine %r is sending a reply: ", queue_id)
             return
 
         parent = msg['parent_header']
         if not parent:
             return
         msg_id = parent['msg_id']
         if msg_id in self.pending:
             self.pending.remove(msg_id)
             self.all_completed.add(msg_id)
             self.queues[eid].remove(msg_id)
             self.completed[eid].append(msg_id)
             self.log.info("queue::request %r completed on %s", msg_id, eid)
         elif msg_id not in self.all_completed:
             # it could be a result from a dead engine that died before delivering the
             # result
             self.log.warn("queue:: unknown msg finished %r", msg_id)
             return
         # update record anyway, because the unregistration could have been premature
         rheader = msg['header']
         completed = rheader['date']
         started = rheader.get('started', None)
         result = {
             'result_header' : rheader,
             'result_content': msg['content'],
             'received': datetime.now(),
             'started' : started,
             'completed' : completed
         }
 
         result['result_buffers'] = msg['buffers']
         try:
             self.db.update_record(msg_id, result)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("DB Error updating record %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
 
 
     #--------------------- Task Queue Traffic ------------------------------
 
     def save_task_request(self, idents, msg):
         """Save the submission of a task."""
         client_id = idents[0]
 
         try:
             msg = self.session.unserialize(msg)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("task::client %r sent invalid task message: %r",
                     client_id, msg, exc_info=True)
             return
         record = init_record(msg)
 
         record['client_uuid'] = msg['header']['session']
         record['queue'] = 'task'
         header = msg['header']
         msg_id = header['msg_id']
         self.pending.add(msg_id)
         self.unassigned.add(msg_id)
         try:
             # it's posible iopub arrived first:
             existing = self.db.get_record(msg_id)
             if existing['resubmitted']:
                 for key in ('submitted', 'client_uuid', 'buffers'):
                     # don't clobber these keys on resubmit
                     # submitted and client_uuid should be different
                     # and buffers might be big, and shouldn't have changed
                     record.pop(key)
                     # still check content,header which should not change
                     # but are not expensive to compare as buffers
 
             for key,evalue in existing.iteritems():
                 if key.endswith('buffers'):
                     # don't compare buffers
                     continue
                 rvalue = record.get(key, None)
                 if evalue and rvalue and evalue != rvalue:
                     self.log.warn("conflicting initial state for record: %r:%r <%r> %r", msg_id, rvalue, key, evalue)
                 elif evalue and not rvalue:
                     record[key] = evalue
             try:
                 self.db.update_record(msg_id, record)
             except Exception:
                 self.log.error("DB Error updating record %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
         except KeyError:
             try:
                 self.db.add_record(msg_id, record)
             except Exception:
                 self.log.error("DB Error adding record %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("DB Error saving task request %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
 
     def save_task_result(self, idents, msg):
         """save the result of a completed task."""
         client_id = idents[0]
         try:
             msg = self.session.unserialize(msg)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("task::invalid task result message send to %r: %r",
                     client_id, msg, exc_info=True)
             return
 
         parent = msg['parent_header']
         if not parent:
             # print msg
             self.log.warn("Task %r had no parent!", msg)
             return
         msg_id = parent['msg_id']
         if msg_id in self.unassigned:
             self.unassigned.remove(msg_id)
 
         header = msg['header']
         engine_uuid = header.get('engine', u'')
         eid = self.by_ident.get(cast_bytes(engine_uuid), None)
         
         status = header.get('status', None)
 
         if msg_id in self.pending:
             self.log.info("task::task %r finished on %s", msg_id, eid)
             self.pending.remove(msg_id)
             self.all_completed.add(msg_id)
             if eid is not None:
                 if status != 'aborted':
                     self.completed[eid].append(msg_id)
                 if msg_id in self.tasks[eid]:
                     self.tasks[eid].remove(msg_id)
             completed = header['date']
             started = header.get('started', None)
             result = {
                 'result_header' : header,
                 'result_content': msg['content'],
                 'started' : started,
                 'completed' : completed,
                 'received' : datetime.now(),
                 'engine_uuid': engine_uuid,
             }
 
             result['result_buffers'] = msg['buffers']
             try:
                 self.db.update_record(msg_id, result)
             except Exception:
                 self.log.error("DB Error saving task request %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
 
         else:
             self.log.debug("task::unknown task %r finished", msg_id)
 
     def save_task_destination(self, idents, msg):
         try:
             msg = self.session.unserialize(msg, content=True)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("task::invalid task tracking message", exc_info=True)
             return
         content = msg['content']
         # print (content)
         msg_id = content['msg_id']
         engine_uuid = content['engine_id']
         eid = self.by_ident[cast_bytes(engine_uuid)]
 
         self.log.info("task::task %r arrived on %r", msg_id, eid)
         if msg_id in self.unassigned:
             self.unassigned.remove(msg_id)
         # else:
         #     self.log.debug("task::task %r not listed as MIA?!"%(msg_id))
 
         self.tasks[eid].append(msg_id)
         # self.pending[msg_id][1].update(received=datetime.now(),engine=(eid,engine_uuid))
         try:
             self.db.update_record(msg_id, dict(engine_uuid=engine_uuid))
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("DB Error saving task destination %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
 
 
     def mia_task_request(self, idents, msg):
         raise NotImplementedError
         client_id = idents[0]
         # content = dict(mia=self.mia,status='ok')
         # self.session.send('mia_reply', content=content, idents=client_id)
 
 
     #--------------------- IOPub Traffic ------------------------------
 
     def save_iopub_message(self, topics, msg):
         """save an iopub message into the db"""
         # print (topics)
         try:
             msg = self.session.unserialize(msg, content=True)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("iopub::invalid IOPub message", exc_info=True)
             return
 
         parent = msg['parent_header']
         if not parent:
             self.log.warn("iopub::IOPub message lacks parent: %r", msg)
             return
         msg_id = parent['msg_id']
         msg_type = msg['header']['msg_type']
         content = msg['content']
 
         # ensure msg_id is in db
         try:
             rec = self.db.get_record(msg_id)
         except KeyError:
             rec = empty_record()
             rec['msg_id'] = msg_id
             self.db.add_record(msg_id, rec)
         # stream
         d = {}
         if msg_type == 'stream':
             name = content['name']
             s = rec[name] or ''
             d[name] = s + content['data']
 
         elif msg_type == 'pyerr':
             d['pyerr'] = content
         elif msg_type == 'pyin':
             d['pyin'] = content['code']
         elif msg_type in ('display_data', 'pyout'):
             d[msg_type] = content
         elif msg_type == 'status':
             pass
         else:
             self.log.warn("unhandled iopub msg_type: %r", msg_type)
 
         if not d:
             return
 
         try:
             self.db.update_record(msg_id, d)
         except Exception:
             self.log.error("DB Error saving iopub message %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
 
 
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Registration requests
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def connection_request(self, client_id, msg):
         """Reply with connection addresses for clients."""
         self.log.info("client::client %r connected", client_id)
         content = dict(status='ok')
-        content.update(self.client_info)
         jsonable = {}
         for k,v in self.keytable.iteritems():
             if v not in self.dead_engines:
                 jsonable[str(k)] = v.decode('ascii')
         content['engines'] = jsonable
         self.session.send(self.query, 'connection_reply', content, parent=msg, ident=client_id)
 
     def register_engine(self, reg, msg):
         """Register a new engine."""
         content = msg['content']
         try:
             queue = cast_bytes(content['queue'])
         except KeyError:
             self.log.error("registration::queue not specified", exc_info=True)
             return
         heart = content.get('heartbeat', None)
         if heart:
             heart = cast_bytes(heart)
         """register a new engine, and create the socket(s) necessary"""
         eid = self._next_id
         # print (eid, queue, reg, heart)
 
         self.log.debug("registration::register_engine(%i, %r, %r, %r)", eid, queue, reg, heart)
 
         content = dict(id=eid,status='ok')
-        content.update(self.engine_info)
         # check if requesting available IDs:
         if queue in self.by_ident:
             try:
                 raise KeyError("queue_id %r in use" % queue)
             except:
                 content = error.wrap_exception()
                 self.log.error("queue_id %r in use", queue, exc_info=True)
         elif heart in self.hearts: # need to check unique hearts?
             try:
                 raise KeyError("heart_id %r in use" % heart)
             except:
                 self.log.error("heart_id %r in use", heart, exc_info=True)
                 content = error.wrap_exception()
         else:
             for h, pack in self.incoming_registrations.iteritems():
                 if heart == h:
                     try:
                         raise KeyError("heart_id %r in use" % heart)
                     except:
                         self.log.error("heart_id %r in use", heart, exc_info=True)
                         content = error.wrap_exception()
                     break
                 elif queue == pack[1]:
                     try:
                         raise KeyError("queue_id %r in use" % queue)
                     except:
                         self.log.error("queue_id %r in use", queue, exc_info=True)
                         content = error.wrap_exception()
                     break
 
         msg = self.session.send(self.query, "registration_reply",
                 content=content,
                 ident=reg)
 
         if content['status'] == 'ok':
             if heart in self.heartmonitor.hearts:
                 # already beating
                 self.incoming_registrations[heart] = (eid,queue,reg[0],None)
                 self.finish_registration(heart)
             else:
                 purge = lambda : self._purge_stalled_registration(heart)
                 dc = ioloop.DelayedCallback(purge, self.registration_timeout, self.loop)
                 dc.start()
                 self.incoming_registrations[heart] = (eid,queue,reg[0],dc)
         else:
             self.log.error("registration::registration %i failed: %r", eid, content['evalue'])
         return eid
 
     def unregister_engine(self, ident, msg):
         """Unregister an engine that explicitly requested to leave."""
         try:
             eid = msg['content']['id']
         except:
             self.log.error("registration::bad engine id for unregistration: %r", ident, exc_info=True)
             return
         self.log.info("registration::unregister_engine(%r)", eid)
         # print (eid)
         uuid = self.keytable[eid]
         content=dict(id=eid, queue=uuid.decode('ascii'))
         self.dead_engines.add(uuid)
         # self.ids.remove(eid)
         # uuid = self.keytable.pop(eid)
         #
         # ec = self.engines.pop(eid)
         # self.hearts.pop(ec.heartbeat)
         # self.by_ident.pop(ec.queue)
         # self.completed.pop(eid)
         handleit = lambda : self._handle_stranded_msgs(eid, uuid)
         dc = ioloop.DelayedCallback(handleit, self.registration_timeout, self.loop)
         dc.start()
         ############## TODO: HANDLE IT ################
 
         if self.notifier:
             self.session.send(self.notifier, "unregistration_notification", content=content)
 
     def _handle_stranded_msgs(self, eid, uuid):
         """Handle messages known to be on an engine when the engine unregisters.
 
         It is possible that this will fire prematurely - that is, an engine will
         go down after completing a result, and the client will be notified
         that the result failed and later receive the actual result.
         """
 
         outstanding = self.queues[eid]
 
         for msg_id in outstanding:
             self.pending.remove(msg_id)
             self.all_completed.add(msg_id)
             try:
                 raise error.EngineError("Engine %r died while running task %r" % (eid, msg_id))
             except:
                 content = error.wrap_exception()
             # build a fake header:
             header = {}
             header['engine'] = uuid
             header['date'] = datetime.now()
             rec = dict(result_content=content, result_header=header, result_buffers=[])
             rec['completed'] = header['date']
             rec['engine_uuid'] = uuid
             try:
                 self.db.update_record(msg_id, rec)
             except Exception:
                 self.log.error("DB Error handling stranded msg %r", msg_id, exc_info=True)
 
 
     def finish_registration(self, heart):
         """Second half of engine registration, called after our HeartMonitor
         has received a beat from the Engine's Heart."""
         try:
             (eid,queue,reg,purge) = self.incoming_registrations.pop(heart)
         except KeyError:
             self.log.error("registration::tried to finish nonexistant registration", exc_info=True)
             return
         self.log.info("registration::finished registering engine %i:%r", eid, queue)
         if purge is not None:
             purge.stop()
         control = queue
         self.ids.add(eid)
         self.keytable[eid] = queue
         self.engines[eid] = EngineConnector(id=eid, queue=queue, registration=reg,
                                     control=control, heartbeat=heart)
         self.by_ident[queue] = eid
         self.queues[eid] = list()
         self.tasks[eid] = list()
         self.completed[eid] = list()
         self.hearts[heart] = eid
         content = dict(id=eid, queue=self.engines[eid].queue.decode('ascii'))
         if self.notifier:
             self.session.send(self.notifier, "registration_notification", content=content)
         self.log.info("engine::Engine Connected: %i", eid)
 
     def _purge_stalled_registration(self, heart):
         if heart in self.incoming_registrations:
             eid = self.incoming_registrations.pop(heart)[0]
             self.log.info("registration::purging stalled registration: %i", eid)
         else:
             pass
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Client Requests
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def shutdown_request(self, client_id, msg):
         """handle shutdown request."""
         self.session.send(self.query, 'shutdown_reply', content={'status': 'ok'}, ident=client_id)
         # also notify other clients of shutdown
         self.session.send(self.notifier, 'shutdown_notice', content={'status': 'ok'})
         dc = ioloop.DelayedCallback(lambda : self._shutdown(), 1000, self.loop)
         dc.start()
 
     def _shutdown(self):
         self.log.info("hub::hub shutting down.")
         time.sleep(0.1)
         sys.exit(0)
 
 
     def check_load(self, client_id, msg):
         content = msg['content']
         try:
             targets = content['targets']
             targets = self._validate_targets(targets)
         except:
             content = error.wrap_exception()
             self.session.send(self.query, "hub_error",
                     content=content, ident=client_id)
             return
 
         content = dict(status='ok')
         # loads = {}
         for t in targets:
             content[bytes(t)] = len(self.queues[t])+len(self.tasks[t])
         self.session.send(self.query, "load_reply", content=content, ident=client_id)
 
 
     def queue_status(self, client_id, msg):
         """Return the Queue status of one or more targets.
         if verbose: return the msg_ids
         else: return len of each type.
         keys: queue (pending MUX jobs)
             tasks (pending Task jobs)
             completed (finished jobs from both queues)"""
         content = msg['content']
         targets = content['targets']
         try:
             targets = self._validate_targets(targets)
         except:
             content = error.wrap_exception()
             self.session.send(self.query, "hub_error",
                     content=content, ident=client_id)
             return
         verbose = content.get('verbose', False)
         content = dict(status='ok')
         for t in targets:
             queue = self.queues[t]
             completed = self.completed[t]
             tasks = self.tasks[t]
             if not verbose:
                 queue = len(queue)
                 completed = len(completed)
                 tasks = len(tasks)
             content[str(t)] = {'queue': queue, 'completed': completed , 'tasks': tasks}
         content['unassigned'] = list(self.unassigned) if verbose else len(self.unassigned)
         # print (content)
         self.session.send(self.query, "queue_reply", content=content, ident=client_id)
 
     def purge_results(self, client_id, msg):
         """Purge results from memory. This method is more valuable before we move
         to a DB based message storage mechanism."""
         content = msg['content']
         self.log.info("Dropping records with %s", content)
         msg_ids = content.get('msg_ids', [])
         reply = dict(status='ok')
         if msg_ids == 'all':
             try:
                 self.db.drop_matching_records(dict(completed={'$ne':None}))
             except Exception:
                 reply = error.wrap_exception()
         else:
             pending = filter(lambda m: m in self.pending, msg_ids)
             if pending:
                 try:
                     raise IndexError("msg pending: %r" % pending[0])
                 except:
                     reply = error.wrap_exception()
             else:
                 try:
                     self.db.drop_matching_records(dict(msg_id={'$in':msg_ids}))
                 except Exception:
                     reply = error.wrap_exception()
 
             if reply['status'] == 'ok':
                 eids = content.get('engine_ids', [])
                 for eid in eids:
                     if eid not in self.engines:
                         try:
                             raise IndexError("No such engine: %i" % eid)
                         except:
                             reply = error.wrap_exception()
                         break
                     uid = self.engines[eid].queue
                     try:
                         self.db.drop_matching_records(dict(engine_uuid=uid, completed={'$ne':None}))
                     except Exception:
                         reply = error.wrap_exception()
                         break
 
         self.session.send(self.query, 'purge_reply', content=reply, ident=client_id)
 
     def resubmit_task(self, client_id, msg):
         """Resubmit one or more tasks."""
         def finish(reply):
             self.session.send(self.query, 'resubmit_reply', content=reply, ident=client_id)
 
         content = msg['content']
         msg_ids = content['msg_ids']
         reply = dict(status='ok')
         try:
             records = self.db.find_records({'msg_id' : {'$in' : msg_ids}}, keys=[
                 'header', 'content', 'buffers'])
         except Exception:
             self.log.error('db::db error finding tasks to resubmit', exc_info=True)
             return finish(error.wrap_exception())
 
         # validate msg_ids
         found_ids = [ rec['msg_id'] for rec in records ]
         pending_ids = [ msg_id for msg_id in found_ids if msg_id in self.pending ]
         if len(records) > len(msg_ids):
             try:
                 raise RuntimeError("DB appears to be in an inconsistent state."
                     "More matching records were found than should exist")
             except Exception:
                 return finish(error.wrap_exception())
         elif len(records) < len(msg_ids):
             missing = [ m for m in msg_ids if m not in found_ids ]
             try:
                 raise KeyError("No such msg(s): %r" % missing)
             except KeyError:
                 return finish(error.wrap_exception())
         elif pending_ids:
             pass
             # no need to raise on resubmit of pending task, now that we
             # resubmit under new ID, but do we want to raise anyway?
             # msg_id = invalid_ids[0]
             # try:
             #     raise ValueError("Task(s) %r appears to be inflight" % )
             # except Exception:
             #     return finish(error.wrap_exception())
 
         # mapping of original IDs to resubmitted IDs
         resubmitted = {}
 
         # send the messages
         for rec in records:
             header = rec['header']
             msg = self.session.msg(header['msg_type'], parent=header)
             msg_id = msg['msg_id']
             msg['content'] = rec['content']
             
             # use the old header, but update msg_id and timestamp
             fresh = msg['header']
             header['msg_id'] = fresh['msg_id']
             header['date'] = fresh['date']
             msg['header'] = header
 
             self.session.send(self.resubmit, msg, buffers=rec['buffers'])
 
             resubmitted[rec['msg_id']] = msg_id
             self.pending.add(msg_id)
             msg['buffers'] = rec['buffers']
             try:
                 self.db.add_record(msg_id, init_record(msg))
             except Exception:
                 self.log.error("db::DB Error updating record: %s", msg_id, exc_info=True)
                 return finish(error.wrap_exception())
 
         finish(dict(status='ok', resubmitted=resubmitted))
         
         # store the new IDs in the Task DB
         for msg_id, resubmit_id in resubmitted.iteritems():
             try:
                 self.db.update_record(msg_id, {'resubmitted' : resubmit_id})
             except Exception:
                 self.log.error("db::DB Error updating record: %s", msg_id, exc_info=True)
 
 
     def _extract_record(self, rec):
         """decompose a TaskRecord dict into subsection of reply for get_result"""
         io_dict = {}
         for key in ('pyin', 'pyout', 'pyerr', 'stdout', 'stderr'):
                 io_dict[key] = rec[key]
         content = { 'result_content': rec['result_content'],
                             'header': rec['header'],
                             'result_header' : rec['result_header'],
                             'received' : rec['received'],
                             'io' : io_dict,
                           }
         if rec['result_buffers']:
             buffers = map(bytes, rec['result_buffers'])
         else:
             buffers = []
 
         return content, buffers
 
     def get_results(self, client_id, msg):
         """Get the result of 1 or more messages."""
         content = msg['content']
         msg_ids = sorted(set(content['msg_ids']))
         statusonly = content.get('status_only', False)
         pending = []
         completed = []
         content = dict(status='ok')
         content['pending'] = pending
         content['completed'] = completed
         buffers = []
         if not statusonly:
             try:
                 matches = self.db.find_records(dict(msg_id={'$in':msg_ids}))
                 # turn match list into dict, for faster lookup
                 records = {}
                 for rec in matches:
                     records[rec['msg_id']] = rec
             except Exception:
                 content = error.wrap_exception()
                 self.session.send(self.query, "result_reply", content=content,
                                                     parent=msg, ident=client_id)
                 return
         else:
             records = {}
         for msg_id in msg_ids:
             if msg_id in self.pending:
                 pending.append(msg_id)
             elif msg_id in self.all_completed:
                 completed.append(msg_id)
                 if not statusonly:
                     c,bufs = self._extract_record(records[msg_id])
                     content[msg_id] = c
                     buffers.extend(bufs)
             elif msg_id in records:
                 if rec['completed']:
                     completed.append(msg_id)
                     c,bufs = self._extract_record(records[msg_id])
                     content[msg_id] = c
                     buffers.extend(bufs)
                 else:
                     pending.append(msg_id)
             else:
                 try:
                     raise KeyError('No such message: '+msg_id)
                 except:
                     content = error.wrap_exception()
                 break
         self.session.send(self.query, "result_reply", content=content,
                                             parent=msg, ident=client_id,
                                             buffers=buffers)
 
     def get_history(self, client_id, msg):
         """Get a list of all msg_ids in our DB records"""
         try:
             msg_ids = self.db.get_history()
         except Exception as e:
             content = error.wrap_exception()
         else:
             content = dict(status='ok', history=msg_ids)
 
         self.session.send(self.query, "history_reply", content=content,
                                             parent=msg, ident=client_id)
 
     def db_query(self, client_id, msg):
         """Perform a raw query on the task record database."""
         content = msg['content']
         query = content.get('query', {})
         keys = content.get('keys', None)
         buffers = []
         empty = list()
         try:
             records = self.db.find_records(query, keys)
         except Exception as e:
             content = error.wrap_exception()
         else:
             # extract buffers from reply content:
             if keys is not None:
                 buffer_lens = [] if 'buffers' in keys else None
                 result_buffer_lens = [] if 'result_buffers' in keys else None
             else:
                 buffer_lens = None
                 result_buffer_lens = None
 
             for rec in records:
                 # buffers may be None, so double check
                 b = rec.pop('buffers', empty) or empty
                 if buffer_lens is not None:
                     buffer_lens.append(len(b))
                     buffers.extend(b)
                 rb = rec.pop('result_buffers', empty) or empty
                 if result_buffer_lens is not None:
                     result_buffer_lens.append(len(rb))
                     buffers.extend(rb)
             content = dict(status='ok', records=records, buffer_lens=buffer_lens,
                                     result_buffer_lens=result_buffer_lens)
         # self.log.debug (content)
         self.session.send(self.query, "db_reply", content=content,
                                             parent=msg, ident=client_id,
                                             buffers=buffers)
 

IPython/parallel/engine/engine.py

@@ -1,237 +1,227 b''
 """A simple engine that talks to a controller over 0MQ.
 it handles registration, etc. and launches a kernel
 connected to the Controller's Schedulers.
 
 Authors:
 
 * Min RK
 """
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2010-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import sys
 import time
 from getpass import getpass
 
 import zmq
 from zmq.eventloop import ioloop, zmqstream
 
 from IPython.external.ssh import tunnel
 # internal
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import (
     Instance, Dict, Integer, Type, CFloat, Unicode, CBytes, Bool
 )
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_bytes
 
 from IPython.parallel.controller.heartmonitor import Heart
 from IPython.parallel.factory import RegistrationFactory
 from IPython.parallel.util import disambiguate_url
 
 from IPython.zmq.session import Message
 from IPython.zmq.ipkernel import Kernel
 
 class EngineFactory(RegistrationFactory):
     """IPython engine"""
 
     # configurables:
     out_stream_factory=Type('IPython.zmq.iostream.OutStream', config=True,
         help="""The OutStream for handling stdout/err.
         Typically 'IPython.zmq.iostream.OutStream'""")
     display_hook_factory=Type('IPython.zmq.displayhook.ZMQDisplayHook', config=True,
         help="""The class for handling displayhook.
         Typically 'IPython.zmq.displayhook.ZMQDisplayHook'""")
     location=Unicode(config=True,
         help="""The location (an IP address) of the controller.  This is
         used for disambiguating URLs, to determine whether
         loopback should be used to connect or the public address.""")
-    timeout=CFloat(2,config=True,
+    timeout=CFloat(5, config=True,
         help="""The time (in seconds) to wait for the Controller to respond
         to registration requests before giving up.""")
     sshserver=Unicode(config=True,
         help="""The SSH server to use for tunneling connections to the Controller.""")
     sshkey=Unicode(config=True,
         help="""The SSH private key file to use when tunneling connections to the Controller.""")
     paramiko=Bool(sys.platform == 'win32', config=True,
         help="""Whether to use paramiko instead of openssh for tunnels.""")
 
     # not configurable:
-    user_ns=Dict()
-    id=Integer(allow_none=True)
-    registrar=Instance('zmq.eventloop.zmqstream.ZMQStream')
-    kernel=Instance(Kernel)
+    connection_info = Dict()
+    user_ns = Dict()
+    id = Integer(allow_none=True)
+    registrar = Instance('zmq.eventloop.zmqstream.ZMQStream')
+    kernel = Instance(Kernel)
 
     bident = CBytes()
     ident = Unicode()
     def _ident_changed(self, name, old, new):
         self.bident = cast_bytes(new)
     using_ssh=Bool(False)
 
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         super(EngineFactory, self).__init__(**kwargs)
         self.ident = self.session.session
 
     def init_connector(self):
         """construct connection function, which handles tunnels."""
         self.using_ssh = bool(self.sshkey or self.sshserver)
 
         if self.sshkey and not self.sshserver:
             # We are using ssh directly to the controller, tunneling localhost to localhost
             self.sshserver = self.url.split('://')[1].split(':')[0]
 
         if self.using_ssh:
             if tunnel.try_passwordless_ssh(self.sshserver, self.sshkey, self.paramiko):
                 password=False
             else:
                 password = getpass("SSH Password for %s: "%self.sshserver)
         else:
             password = False
 
         def connect(s, url):
             url = disambiguate_url(url, self.location)
             if self.using_ssh:
-                self.log.debug("Tunneling connection to %s via %s"%(url, self.sshserver))
+                self.log.debug("Tunneling connection to %s via %s", url, self.sshserver)
                 return tunnel.tunnel_connection(s, url, self.sshserver,
                             keyfile=self.sshkey, paramiko=self.paramiko,
                             password=password,
                 )
             else:
                 return s.connect(url)
 
         def maybe_tunnel(url):
             """like connect, but don't complete the connection (for use by heartbeat)"""
             url = disambiguate_url(url, self.location)
             if self.using_ssh:
-                self.log.debug("Tunneling connection to %s via %s"%(url, self.sshserver))
+                self.log.debug("Tunneling connection to %s via %s", url, self.sshserver)
                 url,tunnelobj = tunnel.open_tunnel(url, self.sshserver,
                             keyfile=self.sshkey, paramiko=self.paramiko,
                             password=password,
                 )
-            return url
+            return str(url)
         return connect, maybe_tunnel
 
     def register(self):
         """send the registration_request"""
 
         self.log.info("Registering with controller at %s"%self.url)
         ctx = self.context
         connect,maybe_tunnel = self.init_connector()
         reg = ctx.socket(zmq.DEALER)
         reg.setsockopt(zmq.IDENTITY, self.bident)
         connect(reg, self.url)
         self.registrar = zmqstream.ZMQStream(reg, self.loop)
 
 
         content = dict(queue=self.ident, heartbeat=self.ident, control=self.ident)
         self.registrar.on_recv(lambda msg: self.complete_registration(msg, connect, maybe_tunnel))
         # print (self.session.key)
-        self.session.send(self.registrar, "registration_request",content=content)
+        self.session.send(self.registrar, "registration_request", content=content)
 
     def complete_registration(self, msg, connect, maybe_tunnel):
         # print msg
         self._abort_dc.stop()
         ctx = self.context
         loop = self.loop
         identity = self.bident
         idents,msg = self.session.feed_identities(msg)
-        msg = Message(self.session.unserialize(msg))
-
-        if msg.content.status == 'ok':
-            self.id = int(msg.content.id)
+        msg = self.session.unserialize(msg)
+        content = msg['content']
+        info = self.connection_info
+        
+        if content['status'] == 'ok':
+            self.id = int(content['id'])
 
             # launch heartbeat
-            hb_addrs = msg.content.heartbeat
-
             # possibly forward hb ports with tunnels
-            hb_addrs = [ maybe_tunnel(addr) for addr in hb_addrs ]
-            heart = Heart(*map(str, hb_addrs), heart_id=identity)
+            hb_ping = maybe_tunnel(info['hb_ping'])
+            hb_pong = maybe_tunnel(info['hb_pong'])
+
+            heart = Heart(hb_ping, hb_pong, heart_id=identity)
             heart.start()
 
-            # create Shell Streams (MUX, Task, etc.):
-            queue_addr = msg.content.mux
-            shell_addrs = [ str(queue_addr) ]
-            task_addr = msg.content.task
-            if task_addr:
-                shell_addrs.append(str(task_addr))
-
-            # Uncomment this to go back to two-socket model
-            # shell_streams = []
-            # for addr in shell_addrs:
-            #     stream = zmqstream.ZMQStream(ctx.socket(zmq.ROUTER), loop)
-            #     stream.setsockopt(zmq.IDENTITY, identity)
-            #     stream.connect(disambiguate_url(addr, self.location))
-            #     shell_streams.append(stream)
-
-            # Now use only one shell stream for mux and tasks
+            # create Shell Connections (MUX, Task, etc.):
+            shell_addrs = map(str, [info['mux'], info['task']])
+
+            # Use only one shell stream for mux and tasks
             stream = zmqstream.ZMQStream(ctx.socket(zmq.ROUTER), loop)
             stream.setsockopt(zmq.IDENTITY, identity)
             shell_streams = [stream]
             for addr in shell_addrs:
                 connect(stream, addr)
-            # end single stream-socket
 
             # control stream:
-            control_addr = str(msg.content.control)
+            control_addr = str(info['control'])
             control_stream = zmqstream.ZMQStream(ctx.socket(zmq.ROUTER), loop)
             control_stream.setsockopt(zmq.IDENTITY, identity)
             connect(control_stream, control_addr)
 
             # create iopub stream:
-            iopub_addr = msg.content.iopub
+            iopub_addr = info['iopub']
             iopub_socket = ctx.socket(zmq.PUB)
             iopub_socket.setsockopt(zmq.IDENTITY, identity)
             connect(iopub_socket, iopub_addr)
 
             # disable history:
             self.config.HistoryManager.hist_file = ':memory:'
             
             # Redirect input streams and set a display hook.
             if self.out_stream_factory:
                 sys.stdout = self.out_stream_factory(self.session, iopub_socket, u'stdout')
                 sys.stdout.topic = cast_bytes('engine.%i.stdout' % self.id)
                 sys.stderr = self.out_stream_factory(self.session, iopub_socket, u'stderr')
                 sys.stderr.topic = cast_bytes('engine.%i.stderr' % self.id)
             if self.display_hook_factory:
                 sys.displayhook = self.display_hook_factory(self.session, iopub_socket)
                 sys.displayhook.topic = cast_bytes('engine.%i.pyout' % self.id)
 
             self.kernel = Kernel(config=self.config, int_id=self.id, ident=self.ident, session=self.session,
                     control_stream=control_stream, shell_streams=shell_streams, iopub_socket=iopub_socket,
                     loop=loop, user_ns=self.user_ns, log=self.log)
             self.kernel.shell.display_pub.topic = cast_bytes('engine.%i.displaypub' % self.id)
             self.kernel.start()
 
 
         else:
             self.log.fatal("Registration Failed: %s"%msg)
             raise Exception("Registration Failed: %s"%msg)
 
         self.log.info("Completed registration with id %i"%self.id)
 
 
     def abort(self):
         self.log.fatal("Registration timed out after %.1f seconds"%self.timeout)
         if self.url.startswith('127.'):
             self.log.fatal("""
             If the controller and engines are not on the same machine,
             you will have to instruct the controller to listen on an external IP (in ipcontroller_config.py):
                 c.HubFactory.ip='*' # for all interfaces, internal and external
                 c.HubFactory.ip='192.168.1.101' # or any interface that the engines can see
             or tunnel connections via ssh.
             """)
         self.session.send(self.registrar, "unregistration_request", content=dict(id=self.id))
         time.sleep(1)
         sys.exit(255)
 
     def start(self):
         dc = ioloop.DelayedCallback(self.register, 0, self.loop)
         dc.start()
         self._abort_dc = ioloop.DelayedCallback(self.abort, self.timeout*1000, self.loop)
         self._abort_dc.start()
 

IPython/zmq/session.py

@@ -1,756 +1,760 b''
 """Session object for building, serializing, sending, and receiving messages in
 IPython. The Session object supports serialization, HMAC signatures, and
 metadata on messages.
 
 Also defined here are utilities for working with Sessions:
 * A SessionFactory to be used as a base class for configurables that work with
 Sessions.
 * A Message object for convenience that allows attribute-access to the msg dict.
 
 Authors:
 
 * Min RK
 * Brian Granger
 * Fernando Perez
 """
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2010-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 import hmac
 import logging
 import os
 import pprint
 import uuid
 from datetime import datetime
 
 try:
     import cPickle
     pickle = cPickle
 except:
     cPickle = None
     import pickle
 
 import zmq
 from zmq.utils import jsonapi
 from zmq.eventloop.ioloop import IOLoop
 from zmq.eventloop.zmqstream import ZMQStream
 
 from IPython.config.application import Application, boolean_flag
 from IPython.config.configurable import Configurable, LoggingConfigurable
 from IPython.utils.importstring import import_item
 from IPython.utils.jsonutil import extract_dates, squash_dates, date_default
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import str_to_bytes
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import (CBytes, Unicode, Bool, Any, Instance, Set,
                                         DottedObjectName, CUnicode)
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # utility functions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def squash_unicode(obj):
     """coerce unicode back to bytestrings."""
     if isinstance(obj,dict):
         for key in obj.keys():
             obj[key] = squash_unicode(obj[key])
             if isinstance(key, unicode):
                 obj[squash_unicode(key)] = obj.pop(key)
     elif isinstance(obj, list):
         for i,v in enumerate(obj):
             obj[i] = squash_unicode(v)
     elif isinstance(obj, unicode):
         obj = obj.encode('utf8')
     return obj
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # globals and defaults
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 # ISO8601-ify datetime objects
 json_packer = lambda obj: jsonapi.dumps(obj, default=date_default)
 json_unpacker = lambda s: extract_dates(jsonapi.loads(s))
 
 pickle_packer = lambda o: pickle.dumps(o,-1)
 pickle_unpacker = pickle.loads
 
 default_packer = json_packer
 default_unpacker = json_unpacker
 
 DELIM=b"<IDS|MSG>"
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Mixin tools for apps that use Sessions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 session_aliases = dict(
     ident = 'Session.session',
     user = 'Session.username',
     keyfile = 'Session.keyfile',
 )
 
 session_flags  = {
     'secure' : ({'Session' : { 'key' : str_to_bytes(str(uuid.uuid4())),
                             'keyfile' : '' }},
         """Use HMAC digests for authentication of messages.
         Setting this flag will generate a new UUID to use as the HMAC key.
         """),
     'no-secure' : ({'Session' : { 'key' : b'', 'keyfile' : '' }},
         """Don't authenticate messages."""),
 }
 
 def default_secure(cfg):
     """Set the default behavior for a config environment to be secure.
     
     If Session.key/keyfile have not been set, set Session.key to
     a new random UUID.
     """
     
     if 'Session' in cfg:
         if 'key' in cfg.Session or 'keyfile' in cfg.Session:
             return
     # key/keyfile not specified, generate new UUID:
     cfg.Session.key = str_to_bytes(str(uuid.uuid4()))
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class SessionFactory(LoggingConfigurable):
     """The Base class for configurables that have a Session, Context, logger,
     and IOLoop.
     """
 
     logname = Unicode('')
     def _logname_changed(self, name, old, new):
         self.log = logging.getLogger(new)
 
     # not configurable:
     context = Instance('zmq.Context')
     def _context_default(self):
         return zmq.Context.instance()
 
     session = Instance('IPython.zmq.session.Session')
 
     loop = Instance('zmq.eventloop.ioloop.IOLoop', allow_none=False)
     def _loop_default(self):
         return IOLoop.instance()
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         super(SessionFactory, self).__init__(**kwargs)
 
         if self.session is None:
             # construct the session
             self.session = Session(**kwargs)
 
 
 class Message(object):
     """A simple message object that maps dict keys to attributes.
 
     A Message can be created from a dict and a dict from a Message instance
     simply by calling dict(msg_obj)."""
 
     def __init__(self, msg_dict):
         dct = self.__dict__
         for k, v in dict(msg_dict).iteritems():
             if isinstance(v, dict):
                 v = Message(v)
             dct[k] = v
 
     # Having this iterator lets dict(msg_obj) work out of the box.
     def __iter__(self):
         return iter(self.__dict__.iteritems())
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return repr(self.__dict__)
 
     def __str__(self):
         return pprint.pformat(self.__dict__)
 
     def __contains__(self, k):
         return k in self.__dict__
 
     def __getitem__(self, k):
         return self.__dict__[k]
 
 
 def msg_header(msg_id, msg_type, username, session):
     date = datetime.now()
     return locals()
 
 def extract_header(msg_or_header):
     """Given a message or header, return the header."""
     if not msg_or_header:
         return {}
     try:
         # See if msg_or_header is the entire message.
         h = msg_or_header['header']
     except KeyError:
         try:
             # See if msg_or_header is just the header
             h = msg_or_header['msg_id']
         except KeyError:
             raise
         else:
             h = msg_or_header
     if not isinstance(h, dict):
         h = dict(h)
     return h
 
 class Session(Configurable):
     """Object for handling serialization and sending of messages.
 
     The Session object handles building messages and sending them
     with ZMQ sockets or ZMQStream objects.  Objects can communicate with each
     other over the network via Session objects, and only need to work with the
     dict-based IPython message spec. The Session will handle
     serialization/deserialization, security, and metadata.
 
     Sessions support configurable serialiization via packer/unpacker traits,
     and signing with HMAC digests via the key/keyfile traits.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
 
     debug : bool
         whether to trigger extra debugging statements
     packer/unpacker : str : 'json', 'pickle' or import_string
         importstrings for methods to serialize message parts.  If just
         'json' or 'pickle', predefined JSON and pickle packers will be used.
         Otherwise, the entire importstring must be used.
 
         The functions must accept at least valid JSON input, and output *bytes*.
 
         For example, to use msgpack:
         packer = 'msgpack.packb', unpacker='msgpack.unpackb'
     pack/unpack : callables
         You can also set the pack/unpack callables for serialization directly.
     session : bytes
         the ID of this Session object.  The default is to generate a new UUID.
     username : unicode
         username added to message headers.  The default is to ask the OS.
     key : bytes
         The key used to initialize an HMAC signature.  If unset, messages
         will not be signed or checked.
     keyfile : filepath
         The file containing a key.  If this is set, `key` will be initialized
         to the contents of the file.
 
     """
 
     debug=Bool(False, config=True, help="""Debug output in the Session""")
 
     packer = DottedObjectName('json',config=True,
             help="""The name of the packer for serializing messages.
             Should be one of 'json', 'pickle', or an import name
             for a custom callable serializer.""")
     def _packer_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new.lower() == 'json':
             self.pack = json_packer
             self.unpack = json_unpacker
+            self.unpacker = new
         elif new.lower() == 'pickle':
             self.pack = pickle_packer
             self.unpack = pickle_unpacker
+            self.unpacker = new
         else:
             self.pack = import_item(str(new))
 
     unpacker = DottedObjectName('json', config=True,
         help="""The name of the unpacker for unserializing messages.
         Only used with custom functions for `packer`.""")
     def _unpacker_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new.lower() == 'json':
             self.pack = json_packer
             self.unpack = json_unpacker
+            self.packer = new
         elif new.lower() == 'pickle':
             self.pack = pickle_packer
             self.unpack = pickle_unpacker
+            self.packer = new
         else:
             self.unpack = import_item(str(new))
 
     session = CUnicode(u'', config=True,
         help="""The UUID identifying this session.""")
     def _session_default(self):
         u = unicode(uuid.uuid4())
         self.bsession = u.encode('ascii')
         return u
 
     def _session_changed(self, name, old, new):
         self.bsession = self.session.encode('ascii')
 
     # bsession is the session as bytes
     bsession = CBytes(b'')
 
     username = Unicode(os.environ.get('USER',u'username'), config=True,
         help="""Username for the Session. Default is your system username.""")
 
     # message signature related traits:
     
     key = CBytes(b'', config=True,
         help="""execution key, for extra authentication.""")
     def _key_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new:
             self.auth = hmac.HMAC(new)
         else:
             self.auth = None
     auth = Instance(hmac.HMAC)
     digest_history = Set()
 
     keyfile = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="""path to file containing execution key.""")
     def _keyfile_changed(self, name, old, new):
         with open(new, 'rb') as f:
             self.key = f.read().strip()
 
     # serialization traits:
     
     pack = Any(default_packer) # the actual packer function
     def _pack_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if not callable(new):
             raise TypeError("packer must be callable, not %s"%type(new))
 
     unpack = Any(default_unpacker) # the actual packer function
     def _unpack_changed(self, name, old, new):
         # unpacker is not checked - it is assumed to be
         if not callable(new):
             raise TypeError("unpacker must be callable, not %s"%type(new))
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         """create a Session object
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         debug : bool
             whether to trigger extra debugging statements
         packer/unpacker : str : 'json', 'pickle' or import_string
             importstrings for methods to serialize message parts.  If just
             'json' or 'pickle', predefined JSON and pickle packers will be used.
             Otherwise, the entire importstring must be used.
 
             The functions must accept at least valid JSON input, and output
             *bytes*.
 
             For example, to use msgpack:
             packer = 'msgpack.packb', unpacker='msgpack.unpackb'
         pack/unpack : callables
             You can also set the pack/unpack callables for serialization
             directly.
         session : unicode (must be ascii)
             the ID of this Session object.  The default is to generate a new
             UUID.
         bsession : bytes
             The session as bytes
         username : unicode
             username added to message headers.  The default is to ask the OS.
         key : bytes
             The key used to initialize an HMAC signature.  If unset, messages
             will not be signed or checked.
         keyfile : filepath
             The file containing a key.  If this is set, `key` will be
             initialized to the contents of the file.
         """
         super(Session, self).__init__(**kwargs)
         self._check_packers()
         self.none = self.pack({})
         # ensure self._session_default() if necessary, so bsession is defined:
         self.session
 
     @property
     def msg_id(self):
         """always return new uuid"""
         return str(uuid.uuid4())
 
     def _check_packers(self):
         """check packers for binary data and datetime support."""
         pack = self.pack
         unpack = self.unpack
 
         # check simple serialization
         msg = dict(a=[1,'hi'])
         try:
             packed = pack(msg)
         except Exception:
             raise ValueError("packer could not serialize a simple message")
 
         # ensure packed message is bytes
         if not isinstance(packed, bytes):
             raise ValueError("message packed to %r, but bytes are required"%type(packed))
 
         # check that unpack is pack's inverse
         try:
             unpacked = unpack(packed)
         except Exception:
             raise ValueError("unpacker could not handle the packer's output")
 
         # check datetime support
         msg = dict(t=datetime.now())
         try:
             unpacked = unpack(pack(msg))
         except Exception:
             self.pack = lambda o: pack(squash_dates(o))
             self.unpack = lambda s: extract_dates(unpack(s))
 
     def msg_header(self, msg_type):
         return msg_header(self.msg_id, msg_type, self.username, self.session)
 
     def msg(self, msg_type, content=None, parent=None, subheader=None, header=None):
         """Return the nested message dict.
 
         This format is different from what is sent over the wire. The
         serialize/unserialize methods converts this nested message dict to the wire
         format, which is a list of message parts.
         """
         msg = {}
         header = self.msg_header(msg_type) if header is None else header
         msg['header'] = header
         msg['msg_id'] = header['msg_id']
         msg['msg_type'] = header['msg_type']
         msg['parent_header'] = {} if parent is None else extract_header(parent)
         msg['content'] = {} if content is None else content
         sub = {} if subheader is None else subheader
         msg['header'].update(sub)
         return msg
 
     def sign(self, msg_list):
         """Sign a message with HMAC digest. If no auth, return b''.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         msg_list : list
             The [p_header,p_parent,p_content] part of the message list.
         """
         if self.auth is None:
             return b''
         h = self.auth.copy()
         for m in msg_list:
             h.update(m)
         return str_to_bytes(h.hexdigest())
 
     def serialize(self, msg, ident=None):
         """Serialize the message components to bytes.
 
         This is roughly the inverse of unserialize. The serialize/unserialize
         methods work with full message lists, whereas pack/unpack work with
         the individual message parts in the message list.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         msg : dict or Message
             The nexted message dict as returned by the self.msg method.
 
         Returns
         -------
         msg_list : list
             The list of bytes objects to be sent with the format:
             [ident1,ident2,...,DELIM,HMAC,p_header,p_parent,p_content,
              buffer1,buffer2,...]. In this list, the p_* entities are
             the packed or serialized versions, so if JSON is used, these
             are utf8 encoded JSON strings.
         """
         content = msg.get('content', {})
         if content is None:
             content = self.none
         elif isinstance(content, dict):
             content = self.pack(content)
         elif isinstance(content, bytes):
             # content is already packed, as in a relayed message
             pass
         elif isinstance(content, unicode):
             # should be bytes, but JSON often spits out unicode
             content = content.encode('utf8')
         else:
             raise TypeError("Content incorrect type: %s"%type(content))
 
         real_message = [self.pack(msg['header']),
                         self.pack(msg['parent_header']),
                         content
         ]
 
         to_send = []
 
         if isinstance(ident, list):
             # accept list of idents
             to_send.extend(ident)
         elif ident is not None:
             to_send.append(ident)
         to_send.append(DELIM)
 
         signature = self.sign(real_message)
         to_send.append(signature)
 
         to_send.extend(real_message)
 
         return to_send
 
     def send(self, stream, msg_or_type, content=None, parent=None, ident=None,
              buffers=None, subheader=None, track=False, header=None):
         """Build and send a message via stream or socket.
 
         The message format used by this function internally is as follows:
 
         [ident1,ident2,...,DELIM,HMAC,p_header,p_parent,p_content,
          buffer1,buffer2,...]
 
         The serialize/unserialize methods convert the nested message dict into this
         format.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         stream : zmq.Socket or ZMQStream
             The socket-like object used to send the data.
         msg_or_type : str or Message/dict
             Normally, msg_or_type will be a msg_type unless a message is being
             sent more than once. If a header is supplied, this can be set to
             None and the msg_type will be pulled from the header.
 
         content : dict or None
             The content of the message (ignored if msg_or_type is a message).
         header : dict or None
             The header dict for the message (ignores if msg_to_type is a message).
         parent : Message or dict or None
             The parent or parent header describing the parent of this message
             (ignored if msg_or_type is a message).
         ident : bytes or list of bytes
             The zmq.IDENTITY routing path.
         subheader : dict or None
             Extra header keys for this message's header (ignored if msg_or_type
             is a message).
         buffers : list or None
             The already-serialized buffers to be appended to the message.
         track : bool
             Whether to track.  Only for use with Sockets, because ZMQStream
             objects cannot track messages.
 
         Returns
         -------
         msg : dict
             The constructed message.
         (msg,tracker) : (dict, MessageTracker)
             if track=True, then a 2-tuple will be returned,
             the first element being the constructed
             message, and the second being the MessageTracker
 
         """
 
         if not isinstance(stream, (zmq.Socket, ZMQStream)):
             raise TypeError("stream must be Socket or ZMQStream, not %r"%type(stream))
         elif track and isinstance(stream, ZMQStream):
             raise TypeError("ZMQStream cannot track messages")
 
         if isinstance(msg_or_type, (Message, dict)):
             # We got a Message or message dict, not a msg_type so don't
             # build a new Message.
             msg = msg_or_type
         else:
             msg = self.msg(msg_or_type, content=content, parent=parent,
                            subheader=subheader, header=header)
 
         buffers = [] if buffers is None else buffers
         to_send = self.serialize(msg, ident)
         flag = 0
         if buffers:
             flag = zmq.SNDMORE
             _track = False
         else:
             _track=track
         if track:
             tracker = stream.send_multipart(to_send, flag, copy=False, track=_track)
         else:
             tracker = stream.send_multipart(to_send, flag, copy=False)
         for b in buffers[:-1]:
             stream.send(b, flag, copy=False)
         if buffers:
             if track:
                 tracker = stream.send(buffers[-1], copy=False, track=track)
             else:
                 tracker = stream.send(buffers[-1], copy=False)
 
         # omsg = Message(msg)
         if self.debug:
             pprint.pprint(msg)
             pprint.pprint(to_send)
             pprint.pprint(buffers)
 
         msg['tracker'] = tracker
 
         return msg
 
     def send_raw(self, stream, msg_list, flags=0, copy=True, ident=None):
         """Send a raw message via ident path.
 
         This method is used to send a already serialized message.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         stream : ZMQStream or Socket
             The ZMQ stream or socket to use for sending the message.
         msg_list : list
             The serialized list of messages to send. This only includes the
             [p_header,p_parent,p_content,buffer1,buffer2,...] portion of
             the message.
         ident : ident or list
             A single ident or a list of idents to use in sending.
         """
         to_send = []
         if isinstance(ident, bytes):
             ident = [ident]
         if ident is not None:
             to_send.extend(ident)
 
         to_send.append(DELIM)
         to_send.append(self.sign(msg_list))
         to_send.extend(msg_list)
         stream.send_multipart(msg_list, flags, copy=copy)
 
     def recv(self, socket, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK, content=True, copy=True):
         """Receive and unpack a message.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         socket : ZMQStream or Socket
             The socket or stream to use in receiving.
 
         Returns
         -------
         [idents], msg
             [idents] is a list of idents and msg is a nested message dict of
             same format as self.msg returns.
         """
         if isinstance(socket, ZMQStream):
             socket = socket.socket
         try:
             msg_list = socket.recv_multipart(mode, copy=copy)
         except zmq.ZMQError as e:
             if e.errno == zmq.EAGAIN:
                 # We can convert EAGAIN to None as we know in this case
                 # recv_multipart won't return None.
                 return None,None
             else:
                 raise
         # split multipart message into identity list and message dict
         # invalid large messages can cause very expensive string comparisons
         idents, msg_list = self.feed_identities(msg_list, copy)
         try:
             return idents, self.unserialize(msg_list, content=content, copy=copy)
         except Exception as e:
             # TODO: handle it
             raise e
 
     def feed_identities(self, msg_list, copy=True):
         """Split the identities from the rest of the message.
 
         Feed until DELIM is reached, then return the prefix as idents and
         remainder as msg_list. This is easily broken by setting an IDENT to DELIM,
         but that would be silly.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         msg_list : a list of Message or bytes objects
             The message to be split.
         copy : bool
             flag determining whether the arguments are bytes or Messages
 
         Returns
         -------
         (idents, msg_list) : two lists
             idents will always be a list of bytes, each of which is a ZMQ
             identity. msg_list will be a list of bytes or zmq.Messages of the
             form [HMAC,p_header,p_parent,p_content,buffer1,buffer2,...] and
             should be unpackable/unserializable via self.unserialize at this
             point.
         """
         if copy:
             idx = msg_list.index(DELIM)
             return msg_list[:idx], msg_list[idx+1:]
         else:
             failed = True
             for idx,m in enumerate(msg_list):
                 if m.bytes == DELIM:
                     failed = False
                     break
             if failed:
                 raise ValueError("DELIM not in msg_list")
             idents, msg_list = msg_list[:idx], msg_list[idx+1:]
             return [m.bytes for m in idents], msg_list
 
     def unserialize(self, msg_list, content=True, copy=True):
         """Unserialize a msg_list to a nested message dict.
 
         This is roughly the inverse of serialize. The serialize/unserialize
         methods work with full message lists, whereas pack/unpack work with
         the individual message parts in the message list.
 
         Parameters:
         -----------
         msg_list : list of bytes or Message objects
             The list of message parts of the form [HMAC,p_header,p_parent,
             p_content,buffer1,buffer2,...].
         content : bool (True)
             Whether to unpack the content dict (True), or leave it packed
             (False).
         copy : bool (True)
             Whether to return the bytes (True), or the non-copying Message
             object in each place (False).
 
         Returns
         -------
         msg : dict
             The nested message dict with top-level keys [header, parent_header,
             content, buffers].
         """
         minlen = 4
         message = {}
         if not copy:
             for i in range(minlen):
                 msg_list[i] = msg_list[i].bytes
         if self.auth is not None:
             signature = msg_list[0]
             if not signature:
                 raise ValueError("Unsigned Message")
             if signature in self.digest_history:
                 raise ValueError("Duplicate Signature: %r"%signature)
             self.digest_history.add(signature)
             check = self.sign(msg_list[1:4])
             if not signature == check:
                 raise ValueError("Invalid Signature: %r"%signature)
         if not len(msg_list) >= minlen:
             raise TypeError("malformed message, must have at least %i elements"%minlen)
         header = self.unpack(msg_list[1])
         message['header'] = header
         message['msg_id'] = header['msg_id']
         message['msg_type'] = header['msg_type']
         message['parent_header'] = self.unpack(msg_list[2])
         if content:
             message['content'] = self.unpack(msg_list[3])
         else:
             message['content'] = msg_list[3]
 
         message['buffers'] = msg_list[4:]
         return message
 
 def test_msg2obj():
     am = dict(x=1)
     ao = Message(am)
     assert ao.x == am['x']
 
     am['y'] = dict(z=1)
     ao = Message(am)
     assert ao.y.z == am['y']['z']
 
     k1, k2 = 'y', 'z'
     assert ao[k1][k2] == am[k1][k2]
 
     am2 = dict(ao)
     assert am['x'] == am2['x']
     assert am['y']['z'] == am2['y']['z']