What i'm trying to do is create a time polling method/mechanism, which as input recieves a method it needs to run inside the time loop (from other modules\classes and might or might not have input params itself) , exit condition (True/False/String/Int) and the timeout This is what i've created
def time_polling(polled_method,exit_condition,timer):
elapsed_time = 0
sleep_period = 10
while elapsed_time<=int(timer):
if polled_method == exit_condition:
return True
time.sleep(sleep_period)
elapsed_time+=sleep_period
return False
the way i call it is like this :
timed_polling(lambda: validation_installation.ValidationInstallation.check_installed_product(),True,60)
The problem is that if i call the method without the lambda , then obviously the call is made inside the call command , with the lambda it seems that the method is not being called inside the timed_polling method. What am I missing?
why so complex ? No need for lambda.
timed_polling(lambda: validation_installation.ValidationInstallation.check_installed_product(),True,60)
should be just
# note: no parentheses, pass function object itself
timed_polling(validation_installation.ValidationInstallation.check_installed_product,True,60)
then in the code this is wrong as polled_method is a method, and it needs to be called now so:
if polled_method == exit_condition:
return True
should be (added () to call it):
if polled_method() == exit_condition:
return True
else the method is not called