[Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 78, Issue 29

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, James

The utility sugar-launch can easily be executed in python by subprocess. 
I have attached the version I use which enables the -o option to allow 
specification of the Activity and the resume (can be by uri or by 
Journal object).

This is a general utility and should work with any launchable activity 
or resumable data file.

Tony

On 04/20/2015 06:00 PM, sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:47:57 +1000
> From: James Cameron<quozl at laptop.org>
> To: "Sam P."<sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
> Cc:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Start an activity from another
> 	activity
> Message-ID:<20150420064757.GJ1099 at us.netrek.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Thanks.
>
> What you describe sounds like activating a journal entry, which causes
> the default activity to be started.
>
> I think I'd like to hear from activity authors who would use the
> feature.
>
> For example, download completion in Browse; at the moment it offers
> "show in journal", but could be "open".
>
> Dependencies are still a concern though; how should Sugar react if
> there is no activity capable of opening an object of an unusual mime
> type?

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (C) 2007, Red Hat, Inc.
#
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import os
import sys
import dbus
from optparse import OptionParser

from sugar.activity import activityfactory
from sugar.bundle.activitybundle import ActivityBundle

usage = "usage: %prog [options] activity"
parser = OptionParser(usage)
parser.add_option("-d", "--debug", action="store_true", dest="debug",
                  help="launch activity inside gdb")
parser.add_option("-o","--object_id",action="store_true",dest="object_id",
                  help="resume activity with object")
parser.add_option("-u","--object_uri",action="store_true",dest="object_uri",
                  help="path to file")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

if len(args) == 0:
    print 'You need to specify the activity bundle_id.'
    sys.exit(1)

bus = dbus.SessionBus()
proxy = bus.get_object('org.laptop.Shell', '/org/laptop/Shell')
path = dbus.Interface(proxy, 'org.laptop.Shell').GetBundlePath(args[0])
if not path:
    print 'Cannot find %s bundle.' % args[0]
    sys.exit(1)

activity = ActivityBundle(path)
cmd_args = activityfactory.get_command(activity)

def _which(exec_file):
    if 'PATH' in os.environ:
        envpath = os.environ['PATH']
    else:
        return None

    for path in envpath.split(os.pathsep):
        fullname = os.path.join(path, exec_file)
        if os.path.exists(fullname):
            return fullname

    return None

def _get_interpreter(exec_file):
    if os.path.exists(exec_file):
        abs_path = exec_file
    else:
        abs_path = _which(exec_file)
        if not abs_path:
            return exec_file

    f = open(abs_path)
    line = f.readline(100)
    if line.startswith('#!'):
        cmds = line[2:].strip().split(' ')
        cmds.append(abs_path)

        if '/usr/bin/env' in cmds:
            cmds.remove('/usr/bin/env')

        return cmds

    return exec_file

if options.debug:
    act_args = cmd_args
    cmd_args = ['gdb', '--args']
    cmd_args.extend(_get_interpreter(act_args.pop(0)))
    cmd_args.extend(act_args)

if options.object_id:
    cmd_args.append("-o")
    cmd_args.append(args[1])
if options.object_uri:
    cmd_args.append("-u")
    cmd_args.append(args[1])

os.chdir(str(activity.get_path()))
os.execvpe(cmd_args[0], cmd_args, activityfactory.get_environment(activity))