[python-win32] Reusing a local com server object

[Ross McKerchar]

Roger Upole wrote:
> Ross McKerchar wrote:
>   
>> Any suggestions would be much appreciated - even just some key phrases 
>> that may help energise my search efforts...
>>     
> An object needs to be registered in the Running Object Table (ROT) for this to
> work. See pythoncom.RegisterActiveObject.
>   
Ta very much - that's exactly the missing snippet I was looking for.

For posterity, here's my updated test solution:

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class TestThread(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        pythoncom.CoInitialize()
        wrapped = win32com.server.util.wrap(self.comobj)
        handle = pythoncom.RegisterActiveObject(wrapped, 
self.comobj._reg_clsid_, 0)
        time.sleep(20)
        pythoncom.RevokeActiveObject(handle)

class FaxJob(object):
    _public_methods_ = ["go"]
    _reg_progid_ = "pythonutils.test"
    _reg_clsid_ = "{57E47876-69CB-4822-92F1-B8D2716F54A4}"
    _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
    testthread = TestThread()
   
    def go(self):
        if self.testthread.isAlive():
            return "Server is already running"
        else:
            self.testthread.comobj = self
            self.testthread.start()
            return "Starting new server"
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Many thanks.

-ross