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    Default Calling QSerialPort methods from two different threads

    Hi.

    I am trying to write a class that makes sync and async requests to some device on a serial port, but it always shows me worrisome
    messages like:
    QObject::killTimer: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
    QObject::startTimer: Timers cannot be started from another thread
    For the sake of presentation I wrote a simple class (below). I know I can do it other ways but this way its much easier to implement communication timeouts, request repetition, received packet completion etc. It's also easy to implement sync methods, as I can just call directly internal blocking methods of object owned by worker thread (QSerialPort in this example).
    There is no event loop in worker thread, threads are synchronized, so it should be perfectly safe to call syncWrite method from main thread, but then I get those messages. Is there any easy way out to solve this problem?

    Thank you.

    Qt Code:
    1. class SerialThread : public QThread
    2. {
    3. Q_OBJECT
    4. public:
    5. QMutex quit;
    6.  
    7. SerialThread()
    8. {
    9.  
    10. }
    11.  
    12. ~SerialThread()
    13. {
    14. quit.lock();
    15. wait();
    16. }
    17.  
    18. void asyncWrite(QByteArray data)
    19. {
    20. QMutexLocker locker(&mutex);
    21. buffer = data;
    22. }
    23.  
    24. bool syncWrite(QByteArray &data)
    25. {
    26. QMutexLocker locker(&mutex);
    27. serial->write(data);
    28. if(serial->waitForReadyRead(1000))
    29. {
    30. data = serial->readAll();
    31. return true;
    32. }
    33. return false;
    34. }
    35.  
    36. private:
    37. QMutex mutex;
    38. QSerialPort * serial;
    39. QByteArray buffer;
    40.  
    41. virtual void run()
    42. {
    43. mutex.lock();
    44. QSerialPort port;
    45. serial = &port;
    46.  
    47. port.setPortName("COM10");
    48. port.open(QSerialPort::ReadWrite);
    49.  
    50. while (quit.tryLock()) {
    51. quit.unlock();
    52.  
    53. if(!buffer.isEmpty())
    54. {
    55. serial->write(buffer);
    56. buffer.clear();
    57. if(serial->waitForReadyRead(1000))
    58. {
    59. emit onRead(serial->readAll());
    60. }
    61. else
    62. emit onError();
    63. }
    64.  
    65.  
    66. mutex.unlock();
    67. msleep(10);
    68. mutex.lock();
    69. }
    70. }
    71. signals:
    72. void onRead(QByteArray data);
    73. void onError();
    74.  
    75. };
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    Default Re: Calling QSerialPort methods from two different threads

    Quote Originally Posted by egzi View Post
    so it should be perfectly safe to call syncWrite method from main thread
    Only if you know for sure that none of the called code does anything thread specific.
    Which seems not to be the case here.

    You could implement the sync write in terms of doing an async write and then waiting for it to complete.

    Btw, your async write is overwriting the shared buffer, if you call it twice in a row, only the second data packet will be sent.
    Might be what you want of course.

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    Default Re: Calling QSerialPort methods from two different threads

    Quote Originally Posted by anda_skoa View Post
    You could implement the sync write in terms of doing an async write and then waiting for it to complete.
    _
    Then I would have to define variables which will hold results, some signaling method to wait for the results, its a pain in the ass and all that for each and every blocking method. That is how I will do that in the end, but I hoped for some more neat method. QT supposed to be easy threaded, but instead all those mechanisms just give me a headache. I have a feeling they are good just for incrementing ints (most examples on the net).
    I wondered if I could use QTConcurrent::run and pass the thread in the thread pool. I will try when I get back my mood for qt programming.


    Quote Originally Posted by anda_skoa View Post
    Btw, your async write is overwriting the shared buffer, if you call it twice in a row, only the second data packet will be sent.
    _
    Yeah I know. It's just an example. Actually I have a blocking communication class which uses QSerialPort internally, that was easy to write. Now I want to implement an async methods but I want to have sync methods at the same time which leads me to the example-like wrapper which in turn gives me those error messages.

    Thank you.

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    Default Re: Calling QSerialPort methods from two different threads

    Quote Originally Posted by egzi View Post
    Then I would have to define variables which will hold results
    Depends.
    If the calling thread can be allowed to further process events then it could "block" in a nested event loop.
    Even when full blocking is required, it would mostly be a matter of chosing the "Task" structure accordingly.

    Quote Originally Posted by egzi View Post
    some signaling method to wait for the results
    Binary semaphore. Acquire in caller, release in worker.

    Cheers,
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