From 2388a945a4a8cd02cb4be435f6c115bcdf80e716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Findeisen <you@hanez.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:17:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] moved some frontends/* to new backends/; backends are threads
 running in background, no frontend

---
 lib/{frontends => backends}/https.py | 6 +++---
 lib/{frontends => backends}/xmpp.py  | 4 ++--
 lib/frontends/frontend.py            | 7 +++----
 linspector                           | 8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 rename lib/{frontends => backends}/https.py (61%)
 rename lib/{frontends => backends}/xmpp.py (79%)

diff --git a/lib/frontends/https.py b/lib/backends/https.py
similarity index 61%
rename from lib/frontends/https.py
rename to lib/backends/https.py
index 70a63dd..89811ad 100644
--- a/lib/frontends/https.py
+++ b/lib/backends/https.py
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 """
-A HTTPS frontend to the current Linspector instance.
+A HTTPS backend to the current Linspector instance.
 
 A Webserver listening for requests to give information about the internal state of linspector.
 (maybe providing a JSON API to the instance too...)
 """
 
-from lib.frontends.frontend import Frontend
+from lib.backends.backend import Backend
 
 
-class HttpsFrontend(Frontend):
+class HttpsBackend(Backend):
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         return
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/frontends/xmpp.py b/lib/backends/xmpp.py
similarity index 79%
rename from lib/frontends/xmpp.py
rename to lib/backends/xmpp.py
index 6b84397..c1d25dc 100644
--- a/lib/frontends/xmpp.py
+++ b/lib/backends/xmpp.py
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Just for the fun in it... Linspector connects to a XMPP Server and are accepting
 give back information. The Linspector admin client will then be any Jabber Client... ;)
 """
 
-from lib.frontends.frontend import Frontend
+from lib.backends.backend import Backend
 
 
-class XmmpFrontend(Frontend):
+class XmmpBackend(Backend):
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         pass
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/frontends/frontend.py b/lib/frontends/frontend.py
index f953f25..91ff5b3 100644
--- a/lib/frontends/frontend.py
+++ b/lib/frontends/frontend.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 """
-Just the frontends.py stub... ;)
+Frontends are GUI interfaces to Linspector. This could be a shell or other terminal based GUI.
 
-If linspector is being started without a frontend "enabled" it just is doing stuff like: polling, alerting, logging etc.
-
-Frontends are absolutely no requirement for running Linspector.
+Frontends are absolutely no requirement for running Linspector. If no frontend is selected Linspector will just log
+stuff to stdout.
 """
 
 
diff --git a/linspector b/linspector
index bbe46d9..458bc0f 100755
--- a/linspector
+++ b/linspector
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import os.path as path
 from apscheduler.scheduler import Scheduler
 from lib.config.parser import FullConfigParser
 from lib.core.job import Job
+from lib.backends.https import HttpsBackend
 from lib.frontends.lish import LishFrontend
 
 
@@ -98,6 +99,13 @@ def main():
                             job.set_logger(log)
                             jobs.append(job)
 
+    #TODO: Load Backend Threads here before initializing the frontend.
+    '''
+    for backend in backends.enabled
+        backend.start
+
+    take care of signals etc. to sthutdown the threads when stopping linspector.
+    '''
     frontend = LishFrontend(jobs=jobs, scheduler=scheduler, linspectorConfig=linConf)
 
     log.debug("shutting down scheduler")