Move API analytics thread pool initialisation to plugin configuration

One pool should then be available to all controllers avoiding errors with
mod_wsgi under Apache as the number of threads grows infinitely.

ckanext/googleanalytics/__init__.py

@@ -1 +1,8 @@
+# this is a namespace package
+try:
+    import pkg_resources
+    pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__)
+except ImportError:
+    import pkgutil
+    __path__ = pkgutil.extend_path(__path__, __name__)
 #

ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ import urllib2
 import logging
 import ckan.logic as logic
 import hashlib
-import Queue
+import plugin
-import threading
 from pylons import config
 
 from webob.multidict import UnicodeMultiDict
@@ -28,42 +27,8 @@ class GAController(BaseController):
         return render('summary.html')
 
 
-class AnalyticsPostThread(threading.Thread):
-    """Threaded Url POST"""
-    def __init__(self, queue):
-        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
-        self.queue = queue
-
-    def run(self):
-        while True:
-            # grabs host from queue
-            data_dict = self.queue.get()
-
-            data = urllib.urlencode(data_dict)
-            log.debug("Sending API event to Google Analytics: " + data)
-            # send analytics
-            urllib2.urlopen(
-                "http://www.google-analytics.com/collect",
-                data,
-                # timeout in seconds
-                # https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html#urllib2.urlopen
-                10)
-
-            # signals to queue job is done
-            self.queue.task_done()
-
-
 class GAApiController(ApiController):
     # intercept API calls to record via google analytics
-    analytics_queue = Queue.Queue()
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        # spawn a pool of 5 threads, and pass them queue instance
-        for i in range(5):
-            t = AnalyticsPostThread(self.analytics_queue)
-            t.setDaemon(True)
-            t.start()
-
     def _post_analytics(
             self, user, request_obj_type, request_function, request_id):
         if config.get('googleanalytics.id'):
@@ -80,7 +45,7 @@ class GAApiController(ApiController):
                 "ea": request_obj_type+request_function,
                 "el": request_id,
             }
-            self.analytics_queue.put(data_dict)
+            plugin.GoogleAnalyticsPlugin.analytics_queue.put(data_dict)
 
     def action(self, logic_function, ver=None):
         try:

ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py

@@ -10,12 +10,40 @@ import ckan.plugins as p
 import gasnippet
 from routes.mapper import SubMapper, Mapper as _Mapper
 
-log = logging.getLogger('ckanext.googleanalytics')
+import urllib2
 
+import threading
+import Queue
+
+log = logging.getLogger('ckanext.googleanalytics')
 
 class GoogleAnalyticsException(Exception):
     pass
 
+class AnalyticsPostThread(threading.Thread):
+    """Threaded Url POST"""
+    def __init__(self, queue):
+        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
+        self.queue = queue
+
+    def run(self):
+        while True:
+            # grabs host from queue
+            data_dict = self.queue.get()
+
+            data = urllib.urlencode(data_dict)
+            log.debug("Sending API event to Google Analytics: " + data)
+            # send analytics
+            urllib2.urlopen(
+                "http://www.google-analytics.com/collect",
+                data,
+                # timeout in seconds
+                # https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html#urllib2.urlopen
+                10)
+
+            # signals to queue job is done
+            self.queue.task_done()
+
 
 class GoogleAnalyticsPlugin(p.SingletonPlugin):
     p.implements(p.IConfigurable, inherit=True)
@@ -24,6 +52,8 @@ class GoogleAnalyticsPlugin(p.SingletonPlugin):
     p.implements(p.IConfigurer, inherit=True)
     p.implements(p.ITemplateHelpers)
 
+    analytics_queue = Queue.Queue()
+
     def configure(self, config):
         '''Load config settings for this extension from config file.
 
@@ -56,6 +86,13 @@ class GoogleAnalyticsPlugin(p.SingletonPlugin):
         if not converters.asbool(config.get('ckan.legacy_templates', 'false')):
             p.toolkit.add_resource('fanstatic_library', 'ckanext-googleanalytics')
 
+            # spawn a pool of 5 threads, and pass them queue instance
+        for i in range(5):
+            t = AnalyticsPostThread(self.analytics_queue)
+            t.setDaemon(True)
+            t.start()
+
+
     def update_config(self, config):
         '''Change the CKAN (Pylons) environment configuration.