feat: add constants to worker

NAMESPACE

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 export(Rush)
 export(RushWorker)
-export(fun_heartbeat)
 export(get_hostname)
+export(heartbeat)
 export(rsh)
 export(rush_available)
 export(rush_config)

R/Rush.R

@@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ Rush = R6::R6Class("Rush",
     #' Start workers locally with `processx`.
     #' The [processx::process] are stored in `$processes`.
     #' Alternatively, use `$create_worker_script()` to create a script for starting workers on remote machines.
+    #' By default, [worker_loop_default()] is used as worker loop.
+    #' This function takes the arguments `fun` and optionally `constants` which are passed in `...`.
     #'
     #' @param n_workers (`integer(1)`)\cr
     #' Number of workers to be started.

R/RushWorker.R

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ RushWorker = R6::R6Class("RushWorker",
           heartbeat_expire = heartbeat_expire,
           pid = Sys.getpid()
         )
-        self$heartbeat = callr::r_bg(fun_heartbeat, args = heartbeat_args, supervise = TRUE)
+        self$heartbeat = callr::r_bg(heartbeat, args = heartbeat_args, supervise = TRUE)
 
         # wait until heartbeat process is able to work
         Sys.sleep(1)

R/heartbeat_loops.R

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #' @template param_heartbeat_expire
 #'
 #' @export
-fun_heartbeat = function(network_id, config, worker_id, heartbeat_period, heartbeat_expire, pid) {
+heartbeat = function(network_id, config, worker_id, heartbeat_period, heartbeat_expire, pid) {
   r = redux::hiredis(config)
   worker_id_key = sprintf("%s:%s", network_id, worker_id)
   heartbeat_key = sprintf("%s:%s:heartbeat", network_id, worker_id)

R/worker_loops.R

@@ -7,18 +7,21 @@
 #'
 #' @param fun (`function`)\cr
 #' Function to be executed.
+#' @param constants (`list`)\cr
+#' List of constants passed to `fun`.
 #' @param rush ([RushWorker])\cr
 #' Rush worker instance.
 #'
 #' @export
-worker_loop_default = function(fun, rush) {
+worker_loop_default = function(fun, constants = NULL, rush) {
   assert_function(fun)
+  assert_list(constants, null.ok = TRUE, names = "named")
 
   while(!rush$terminated) {
     task = rush$pop_task()
     if (!is.null(task)) {
       tryCatch({
-        ys = mlr3misc::invoke(fun, .args = task$xs)
+        ys = mlr3misc::invoke(fun, .args = c(task$xs, constants))
         rush$push_results(task$key, yss = list(ys))
       }, error = function(e) {
         condition = list(message = e$message)

pkgdown/_pkgdown.yml

@@ -42,9 +42,16 @@ reference:
       - Rush
       - RushWorker
       - rsh
-  - title: Misc
+  - title: Plan
+      - rush_plan
+      - rush_available
+      - rush_config
+  - title: Worker Loop
     contents:
-      - worker_loop_default
       - start_worker
-      - fun_heartbeat
+      - worker_loop_default
+      - heartbeat
+  - title: Misc
+    contents:
+      - get_hostname
       - rush-package

tests/testthat/test-Rush.R

@@ -186,6 +186,34 @@ test_that("a remote worker is started", {
   expect_set_equal(rush$worker_info$host, "remote")
 })
 
+# start workers with script ----------------------------------------------------
+
+test_that("worker can be started with script", {
+  # skip_on_cran()
+  skip_on_ci()
+  skip_if(TRUE)
+
+  config = start_flush_redis()
+  rush = Rush$new(network_id = "test-rush", config = config)
+  fun = function(x1, x2, ...) list(y = x1 + x2)
+
+  rush$create_worker_script(fun = fun)
+})
+
+test_that("a remote worker is started", {
+  # skip_on_cran()
+
+  config = start_flush_redis()
+  fun = function(x1, x2, ...) list(y = x1 + x2)
+  rush = Rush$new(network_id = "test-rush", config = config)
+
+  withr::with_envvar(list("HOST" = "remote_host"), {
+    rush$start_workers(fun = fun, n_workers = 2, heartbeat_period = 1, heartbeat_expire = 2, await_workers = TRUE)
+  })
+
+  expect_set_equal(rush$worker_info$host, "remote")
+})
+
 # stop workers -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 test_that("a worker is terminated", {
@@ -683,6 +711,23 @@ test_that("terminating workers on idle works", {
   expect_rush_reset(rush)
 })
 
+test_that("constants works", {
+  # skip_on_cran()
+
+  config = start_flush_redis()
+  rush = Rush$new(network_id = "test-rush", config = config)
+  fun = function(x1, x2, x3, ...) list(y = x1 + x2 + x3)
+  rush$start_workers(fun = fun, n_workers = 4, constants = list(x3 = 5), await_workers = TRUE)
+
+  xss = list(list(x1 = 1, x2 = 2))
+  keys = rush$push_tasks(xss)
+  rush$await_tasks(keys)
+
+  expect_equal(rush$fetch_finished_tasks()$y, 8)
+
+  expect_rush_reset(rush)
+})
+
 # rush network without controller ----------------------------------------------
 
 test_that("network without controller works", {

tests/testthat/test-rush_plan.R

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ test_that("rush_plan family works", {
   skip_on_cran()
   skip_on_ci()
 
-
   expect_false(rush_available())
   config = redis_config()
   rush_plan(n_workers = 2, config)