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Move relevant docs to README, mention Windows Support #455

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- Moved CI to Github Actions
- Blackified codebase
- Compacted Documentation into readme (was pretty small anyway)

2.3.0
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:alt: Coverage Status


About
Usage
-----

In a project that relies on multiple processes there might be a need to guard code
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* **HTTPExecutor** - waits for a successful HEAD request (and TCP before).
* **PidExecutor** - waits for a specified .pid file to exist.

SimpleExecutor
++++++++++++++

The simplest executor implementation.
It simply starts the process passed to constructor, and reports it as running.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import SimpleExecutor

process = SimpleExecutor('my_special_process')
process.start()

# Here you can do your stuff, e.g. communicate with the started process

process.stop()

OutputExecutor
++++++++++++++

OutputExecutor is the executor that starts the process,
but does not report it as started, unless it receives specified marker/banner in
process output.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import OutputExecutor

process = OutputExecutor('my_special_process', banner='processed!')
process.start()

# Here you can do your stuff, e.g. communicate with the started process

process.stop()

What happens during start here, is that the executor constantly checks output
produced by started process, and looks for the banner part occurring within the
output.
Once the output is identified, as in example `processed!` is found in output.
It is considered as started, and executor releases your script from wait to work.


TCPExecutor
+++++++++++

Is the executor that should be used to start
processes that are using TCP connection. This executor tries to connect with
the process on given host:port to see if it started accepting connections. Once it
does, it reports the process as started and a code returns to normal execution.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import TCPExecutor

process = TCPExecutor('my_special_process', host='localhost', port=1234)
process.start()

# Here you can do your stuff, e.g. communicate with the started process

process.stop()

HTTPExecutor
++++++++++++

Is executor that will be used to start web applications for example.
To start it, you apart from command, you need to pass a URL.
This URL will be used to make a (by default) HEAD request. Once successful,
the executor will be considered started, and a code will return to normal execution.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import HTTPExecutor

process = HTTPExecutor('my_special_process', url='http://localhost:6543/status')
process.start()

# Here you can do your stuff, e.g. communicate with the started process

process.stop()

This executor, however, apart from HEAD request, also inherits TCPExecutor,
so it'll try to connect to process over TCP first, to determine,
if it can try to make a HEAD request already.

By default HTTPExecutor waits until its subprocess responds with 2XX HTTP status code.
If you consider other codes as valid you need to specify them in 'status' argument.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import HTTPExecutor

process = HTTPExecutor('my_special_process', url='http://localhost:6543/status', status='(200|404)')
process.start()

The "status" argument can be a single code integer like 200, 404, 500 or a regular expression string -
'^(2|4)00$', '2\d\d', '\d{3}', etc.

There's also a possibility to change the request method used to perform request to the server.
By default it's HEAD, but GET, POST or other are also possible.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import HTTPExecutor

process = HTTPExecutor('my_special_process', url='http://localhost:6543/status', status='(200|404)', method='GET')
process.start()


PidExecutor
+++++++++++

Is an executor that starts the given
process, and then waits for a given file to be found before it gives back control.
An example use for this class is writing integration tests for processes that
notify their running by creating a .pid file.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import PidExecutor

process = PidExecutor('my_special_process', filename='/var/msp/my_special_process.pid')
process.start()

# Here you can do your stuff, e.g. communicate with the started process

process.stop()


.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import HTTPExecutor
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host='localhost', port=1025
)

Authors
-------
Use as a Context manager
------------------------

Starting
++++++++

Mirakuru executors can also work as a context managers.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import HTTPExecutor

with HTTPExecutor('my_special_process', url='http://localhost:6543/status') as process:

# Here you can do your stuff, e.g. communicate with the started process
assert process.running() is True

The project was firstly developed by `Mateusz Lenik <http://mlen.pl>`_
as the `summon_process <https://github.com/mlen/summon_process>`_.
Later forked, renamed into **mirakuru** and tended to by The A Room @ `Clearcode <http://clearcode.cc>`_
and `the other authors <https://github.com/ClearcodeHQ/mirakuru/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst>`_.
assert process.running() is False

License
-------
Defined process starts upon entering context, and exit upon exiting it.

``mirakuru`` is licensed under LGPL license, version 3.
Stopping
++++++++

Mirakuru also allows to stop process for given context.
To do this, simply use built-in stopped context manager.

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import HTTPExecutor

process = HTTPExecutor('my_special_process', url='http://localhost:6543/status').start()

# Here you can do your stuff, e.g. communicate with the started process

with process.stopped():

# Here you will not be able to communicate with the process as it is killed here
assert process.running() is False

assert process.running() is True

Defined process stops upon entering context, and starts upon exiting it.


Methods chaining
++++++++++++++++

Mirakuru encourages methods chaining so you can inline some operations, e.g.:

.. code-block:: python

from mirakuru import SimpleExecutor

command_stdout = SimpleExecutor('my_special_process').start().stop().output

Contributing and reporting bugs
-------------------------------
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Issue tracker is located at `GitHub Issues <https://github.com/ClearcodeHQ/mirakuru/issues>`_.
Projects `PyPI page <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mirakuru>`_.

When contributing, don't forget to add your name to the AUTHORS.rst file.
Windows support
---------------

Frankly, there's none, Python's support differs a bit in required places
and the team has no experience in developing for Windows.
However we'd welcome contributions that will allow the windows support.

See:

* `#392 <https://github.com/ClearcodeHQ/mirakuru/issues/392>`_
* `#336 <https://github.com/ClearcodeHQ/mirakuru/issues/336>`_

Also, With the introduction of `WSL <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10>`_
the need for raw Windows support might not be that urgant... If you've got any thoughts or are willing to contribute,
please start with the issues listed above.
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