Thread Management Service

The software will run many process in the background and we need to keep track of them in order to make user experience seamless.

This services includes a Python file with a Thread Manager class and an app to see running tasks and to terminate threads.

Thread Manager API Reference

It has only two methods to work with, first is start_new and terminate_thread

Starting a new thread

To start a new thread you need to use the start_new method and provide a function: callable to run, target_args the arguments for the target function and service_name an service identifier which will make it easier for users to understand which thread belong to which task.

from time import sleep
from thread_manager import ThreadManager

manager = ThreadManager()

def example_func():
    while True:
        print("Hello World")
        sleep(2)

# pass an empty list if your function needs no arguments
manager.start_new(example_func, [], "example_service")

Terminating a thread

It's very simple to terminate a thread. You just need to pass the service_name

"""
Assuming that you already have starteda new thread
"""

manager.kill_thread("example_service")

As discussed above it aslo has a GUI app.

Note

UI will be changed in future, this is a very basic version of the UI and the app.