C[omp]ute

From: andrew cooke <andrew@...>

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:59:55 -0400

This is based on the code in the examples project, but has some fixes so that
it bootstraps properly after memcache is flushed and the like.



# Copyright 2008 Google Inc.
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# Modified / extended / fixed by andrew@... to work across
# re-deploys, memcache flushes, etc.

from google.appengine.api import memcache 
from google.appengine.ext import db
import random


class GeneralCounterShardConfig(db.Model):
    """Tracks the number of shards for each named counter."""
    name = db.StringProperty(required=True)
    num_shards = db.IntegerProperty(required=True, default=20)


class GeneralCounterShard(db.Model):
    """Shards for each named counter"""
    name = db.StringProperty(required=True)
    count = db.IntegerProperty(required=True, default=0)


def get_count(name):
    """Retrieve the value for a given sharded counter.

    Parameters:
      name - The name of the counter
    """
    total = memcache.get('counter:' + name)
    if total is None:
        total = 0
        for counter in GeneralCounterShard.all().filter('name = ', name):
            total += counter.count
        memcache.add(name, str(total), 60, namespace='counter')
    else:
        total = int(total)
    return total


def increment(name):
    """Increment the value for a given sharded counter.

    Parameters:
      name - The name of the counter
    """
    config = GeneralCounterShardConfig.get_or_insert(name, name=name)

    def txn():
        index = random.randint(0, config.num_shards - 1)
        shard_name = name + str(index)
        counter = GeneralCounterShard.get_by_key_name(shard_name)
        if counter is None:
            counter = GeneralCounterShard(key_name=shard_name, name=name)
        counter.count += 1
        counter.put()

    db.run_in_transaction(txn)
    value = memcache.incr(name, namespace='counter')
    if value is None:
        value = get_count(name)
    return value


def increase_shards(name, num):
    """Increase the number of shards for a given sharded counter.
    Will never decrease the number of shards.

    Parameters:
      name - The name of the counter
      num - How many shards to use

    """
    config = GeneralCounterShardConfig.get_or_insert(name, name=name)

    def txn():
        if config.num_shards < num:
            config.num_shards = num
            config.put()

    db.run_in_transaction(txn)