input-remapper/keymapper/getdevices.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# key-mapper - GUI for device specific keyboard mappings
# Copyright (C) 2020 sezanzeb <proxima@hip70890b.de>
#
# This file is part of key-mapper.
#
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"""Device and evdev stuff that is independent from the display server."""


import multiprocessing

import evdev

from keymapper.logger import logger


_devices = None


class GetDevicesProcess(multiprocessing.Process):
    """Process to get the devices that can be worked with.

    Since InputDevice destructors take quite some time, do this
    asynchronously so that they can take as much time as they want without
    slowing down the initialization. To avoid evdevs asyncio stuff spamming
    errors, do this with multiprocessing and not multithreading.
    TODO to threading, make eventloop
    """
    def __init__(self, pipe):
        """Construct the process.

        Parameters
        ----------
        pipe : multiprocessing.Pipe
            used to communicate the result
        """
        self.pipe = pipe
        super().__init__()

    def run(self):
        """Do what get_devices describes."""
        devices = [evdev.InputDevice(path) for path in evdev.list_devices()]

        # group them together by usb device because there could be stuff like
        # "Logitech USB Keyboard" and "Logitech USB Keyboard Consumer Control"
        grouped = {}
        for device in devices:
            # only keyboard devices
            # https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/input/event-codes.html
            if evdev.ecodes.EV_KEY not in device.capabilities().keys():
                continue

            usb = device.phys.split('/')[0]
            if grouped.get(usb) is None:
                grouped[usb] = []
            grouped[usb].append((device.name, device.path))

        # now write down all the paths of that group
        result = {}
        for group in grouped.values():
            names = [entry[0] for entry in group]
            devs = [entry[1] for entry in group]
            shortest_name = sorted(names, key=len)[0]
            result[shortest_name] = {
                'paths': devs,
                'devices': names
            }

        self.pipe.send(result)


def get_devices():
    """Group devices and get relevant infos per group.

    Returns a list containing mappings of
    {group_name: {paths: [paths], devices: [names]} for input devices.

    For example, group_name could be "Logitech USB Keyboard", devices might
    contain "Logitech USB Keyboard System Control" and "Logitech USB Keyboard".
    paths is a list of files in /dev/input that belong to the devices.

    They are grouped by usb port.
    """
    global _devices
    if _devices is None:
        pipe = multiprocessing.Pipe()
        GetDevicesProcess(pipe[1]).start()
        # block until devices are available
        _devices = pipe[0].recv()
        logger.info('Found %s', ', '.join([f'"{name}"' for name in _devices]))
    return _devices