move daemon spawning code into NetworkProxy class

electrum

@@ -110,38 +110,13 @@ def print_help_cb(self, opt, value, parser):
 def run_command(cmd, password=None, args=[]):
     import socket
     if cmd.requires_network and not options.offline:
-        daemon_started = False
-        while True:
-            try:
-                network = NetworkProxy(config)
-                break
-            except socket.error:
-                if cmd != 'daemon':
-                    if not daemon_started:
-                        print "Starting daemon [%s]"%config.get('server')
-                        daemon_started = True
-                        pid = os.fork()
-                        if (pid == 0): # The first child.
-                            os.chdir("/")
-                            os.setsid()
-                            os.umask(0)
-                            pid2 = os.fork()
-                            if (pid2 == 0):  # Second child
-                                server = NetworkServer(config)
-                                try:
-                                    server.main_loop()
-                                except KeyboardInterrupt:
-                                    print "Ctrl C - Stopping server"
-                                sys.exit(1)
-                            sys.exit(0)
-                    else:
-                        time.sleep(0.1)
-                else:
-                    print "Daemon not running"
-                    sys.exit(1)
+        network = NetworkProxy(config)
+        if not network.start(start_daemon= (True if cmd.name!='daemon' else False)):
+            print "Daemon not running"
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+
 
-        network = network
-        network.start()
         if wallet:
             wallet.start_threads(network)
             wallet.update()

lib/daemon.py

@@ -27,26 +27,60 @@ import json
 import Queue
 from network import Network
 from util import print_msg
+from simple_config import SimpleConfig
 
 
 class NetworkProxy(threading.Thread):
     # connects to daemon
     # sends requests, runs callbacks
 
-    def __init__(self, config):
+    def __init__(self, config = {}):
         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
         self.daemon = True
-        self.config = config
+        self.config = SimpleConfig(config) if type(config) == type({}) else config
         self.socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
         self.socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
         self.daemon_port = config.get('daemon_port', 8000)
-        self.socket.connect(('', self.daemon_port))
         self.message_id = 0
         self.unanswered_requests = {}
         self.subscriptions = {}
         self.debug = False
         self.lock = threading.Lock()
-        
+
+
+    def start(self, start_daemon=False):
+        daemon_started = False
+        while True:
+            try:
+                self.socket.connect(('', self.daemon_port))
+                threading.Thread.start(self)
+                return True
+
+            except socket.error:
+                if not start_daemon:
+                    return False
+
+                elif not daemon_started:
+                    print "Starting daemon [%s]"%self.config.get('server')
+                    daemon_started = True
+                    pid = os.fork()
+                    if (pid == 0): # The first child.
+                        os.chdir("/")
+                        os.setsid()
+                        os.umask(0)
+                        pid2 = os.fork()
+                        if (pid2 == 0):  # Second child
+                            server = NetworkServer(self.config)
+                            try:
+                                server.main_loop()
+                            except KeyboardInterrupt:
+                                print "Ctrl C - Stopping server"
+                            sys.exit(1)
+                        sys.exit(0)
+                else:
+                    time.sleep(0.1)
+
+
 
     def parse_json(self, message):
         s = message.find('\n')

scripts/get_history

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import sys
-from electrum import Network
+from electrum import NetworkProxy, print_json
 
 try:
     addr = sys.argv[1]
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ except Exception:
     print "usage: get_history <bitcoin_address>"
     sys.exit(1)
 
-n = Network()
-n.start(wait=True)
+n = NetworkProxy()
+n.start(start_daemon=True)
 h = n.synchronous_get([ ('blockchain.address.get_history',[addr]) ])[0]
-for item in h:
-    print item['tx_hash'], item['height']
+print_json(h)