Load Jython Classes on Startup

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Is there a way to have a project load/import all the Jython classes in the project library on project startup?

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What behavior are trying to produce? Are you looking for persistent objects or are there functions that you are expecting to be accessible that aren’t?

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What classes/functions/objects aren’t ?

(Project library scripts are pre-loaded into script environments automatically. No need to import. Actually, importing a project script can cause subtle bugs when project hierarchies are saved/reloaded.)

Just refer to project library classes/functions/objects by their fully qualified name wherever you need them. Without any import.

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It appears to me that the project library scripts do not load until a class is referenced in them. I am not sure if load is the correct word or not. If I place info loggers in my script files I can see they do not load until I reference a class in the file.

When I reference a class a second time the script file does not load a second time it seems to be loaded/cached(?).

Waiting until a class is referenced seems to be a potential problem when I have two separate threads referencing the same class. The threads will try and both load the same script file and can lead to a mismatch of the same class.

My work around to this problem would be to have the project load all the script files with classes before anything referenced them. I do not want to manually have to add this to the gateway startup script so I was hoping there was a way to do this dynamically in code.

Here is an example where I am able to reproduce:

filename: testClass

logger = system.util.getLogger("testClass")

logger.info("testClass file loaded")
print "testClass file loaded"

class TestClass(object):
	logger.info("TestClass class loaded")
	print "TestClass class loaded"
	def __init__(self):
		self.a= "A"

filename: testRun

from java.util.concurrent import LinkedBlockingQueue

#uncomment testClass.TestClass to pre load script file. This will fix the issue of possible different class Ids
#testClass.TestClass

filePath = "c:/temp/classIds.txt"

def runTest():	
	queue1 = LinkedBlockingQueue()
	queue2 = LinkedBlockingQueue()
	
	system.file.writeFile(filePath, "", False)
	
	def doAsync1(queue1=queue1):				
		queue1.take()
		system.file.writeFile(filePath, "queue1 id(testClass.TestClass)=%s\n" % (id(testClass.TestClass)), True)
	
	def doAsync2(queue2=queue2):
		queue2.take()
		system.file.writeFile(filePath, "queue2 id(testClass.TestClass)=%s\n" % (id(testClass.TestClass)), True)
		
	print system.util.invokeAsynchronous(doAsync1)
	print system.util.invokeAsynchronous(doAsync2)
	
	queue1.put(1)
	queue2.put(2)

Run: testRun.runTest()

Here you can see the output in my test file that the ids of the same class does not match.
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If you run it from the script console you have to reset the console to in between runs. Also the ids are not always different and I think this is because it is a race condition. I usually can get it to do it every few resets of the console.

If you run this from the gateway scope you have to make a change that causes the project to restart in between runs.

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Any named object, actually. And once-through is intended behavior, like import. Cross-thread dependencies are not supposed to impact this import mechanism (there's an import lock), but maybe IA has introduced a bug here.

Consider using a global lock object to ensure initialization doesn't happen in parallel (via system.util.getGlobals() or the similar system.util.persistent() from my LifeCycle module).

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