qubesadmin.events package

Submodules

qubesadmin.events.utils module

Utilities for common events-based actions

qubesadmin.events.utils.interrupt_on_vm_shutdown(vms, dispatcher, subject, event)

Interrupt events processing when given VM was shutdown

qubesadmin.events.utils.wait_for_domain_shutdown(vms)

Helper function to wait for domain shutdown.

This function wait for domain shutdown, but do not initiate the shutdown itself.

Parameters:vms – QubesVM object collection to wait for shutdown on

Module contents

Event handling implementation, require Python >=3.5.2 for asyncio.

class qubesadmin.events.EventsDispatcher(app, api_method='admin.Events', enable_cache=True)

Bases: object

Events dispatcher, responsible for receiving events and calling appropriate handlers

add_handler(event, handler)

Register handler for event

Use ‘*’ as event to register a handler for all events.

Handler function is called with:

• subject (VM object or None)
• event name (str)
• keyword arguments related to the event, if any - all values as str

:param event Event name, or ‘*’ for all events :param handler Handler function

app = None

Qubes() object

handle(subject, event, **kwargs)

Call handlers for given event

handlers = None

event handlers - dict of event -> handlers

listen_for_events(vm=None, reconnect=True)

Listen for events and call appropriate handlers. This function do not exit until manually terminated.

This is coroutine.

Parameters:

• vm – Listen for events only for this VM, use None to listen for events about all VMs and not related to any particular VM.
• reconnect – should reconnect to qubesd if connection is interrupted?

Return type:

None

remove_handler(event, handler)

Remove previously registered event handler

:param event Event name :param handler Handler function

stop()

Stop currently running dispatcher