Resolve "What is `bliss.common.task.task` for?"
Closes #3214 (closed)
Removal of the task
decorator.
The decorated method can be executed in three ways:
1. Synchronous execution without timeout (the default)
2. Synchronous execution with timeout (`wait=True, timeout=...`)
3. Asynchronous execution (`wait=False`, `timeout` is ignored)
Returns an asynchronous result handler of type `Greenlet`.
The argument `wait_started=True` can be used in case 2 and 3 to
wait for the task to start before the timeout period starts (2)
or the asynchronous result handler is returned (3).
This decorator was used at two places with wait=False
(neither wait_started
nor timeout
was used).
In other words it can be replaced in both cases by a simple gevent.spawn
.
The temperature module did use an event which basically does what wait_started=True
would have done so I kept it.
Edited by Wout De Nolf