Kamaelia.Util.RateFilter.VariableByteRate_RequestControl

class VariableByteRate_RequestControl(Axon.Component.component)

ByteRate_RequestControl([rate][,chunksize][,chunkrate][,allowchunkaggregation]) -> new ByteRate_RequestControl component.

Controls rate of a data source by, at a controlled rate, emitting integers saying how much data to emit. Rate can be changed at runtime.

Keyword arguments: - rate -- qty of data items per second (default=100000) - chunksize -- None or qty of items per 'chunk' (default=None) - chunkrate -- None or number of chunks per second (default=10) - allowchunkaggregation -- if True, chunksize will be enlarged if 'catching up' is necessary (default=False)

Specify either chunksize or chunkrate, but not both.

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__init__(self, rate, chunksize, chunkrate, allowchunkaggregation)

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

changeRate(self, newRate, now)

Change the rate.

Guaranteed to not cause a glitch in the rate of output.

getChunksToSend(self, now)

Generator. Returns the size of chunks to be requested (if any) to 'catch up' since last time this method was called.

main(self)

Main loop.

resetTiming(self, now)

Resets the timing variable used to determine when the next time to send a request is.

shutdown(self)

Returns True if shutdown message received.

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