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Add convenience functions for running Python code on the EDT #12

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Add convenience functions for running Python code on the EDT#12
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@ctrueden
ctrueden
opened on Dec 16, 2019

Let's add scyjava.awt.invoke(python_function) as a shortcut for EventQueue.invokeAndWait(java_runnable_object), and scyjava.awt.queue(python_function) as a shortcut for EventQueue.invokeLater(java_runnable_object). Internally it would work like this:

from jnius import PythonJavaClass, java_method

class JavaRunnable(PythonJavaClass):
    __javainterfaces__ = ['java/lang/Runnable']

    def __init__(self, f):
        super(JavaRunnable, self).__init__()
        self._f = f

    @java_method('()V')
    def run(self):
        _f()

EventQueue = autoclass('java.awt.EventQueue')
EventQueue.invokeLater(JavaRunnable(lambda: ij.ui().showDialog('hello')))

Where ij.ui().showDialog('hello') is something that—at least on macOS—hangs the Python process when run from the wrong native thread.

As part of this work, we may want to enhance the to_java method to accept Python functions and have it wrap them as Runnables.

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  1. ctrueden commented on Dec 16, 2019

    @ctrueden
    ctrueden
    on Dec 16, 2019
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    CC @hanslovsky

  2. hanslovsky commented on Dec 17, 2019

    @hanslovsky
    hanslovsky
    on Dec 17, 2019
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    Thanks @ctrueden

        def run(self):
        _f()

    should be

        def run(self):
        self._f()

    We could even provide convenience classes like this for all classes in the java.util.function package that would live at the top level of scijava, or maybe we could just put it at scijava.function. Unfortunately, we cannot auto map python functions/lambdas because we can only check the number of arguments but not the types, e.g. Function vs LongFunction and we do not know if anything is being returned (Consumer vs Function).

    That would be quite a bit of work but is something that is probably very suitable for a student.

  3. ctrueden
    added this to the unscheduled milestone on Nov 2, 2022
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