2 files changed, 38 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/crocoite/cli.py b/crocoite/cli.py
index c085326..ac58bd1 100644
--- a/crocoite/cli.py
+++ b/crocoite/cli.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ from datetime import datetime
 from base64 import b64decode
 import pychrome
 from urllib.parse import urlsplit
-from warcio.warcwriter import WARCWriter
 from warcio.statusandheaders import StatusAndHeaders
 from html5lib.serializer import HTMLSerializer
 
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ from celery import Celery
 from celery.utils.log import get_task_logger
 
 from . import html, packageData, packageUrl
-from .warc import WarcLoader
+from .warc import WarcLoader, SerializingWARCWriter
 from .html import StripAttributeFilter, StripTagFilter, ChromeTreeWalker
 from .browser import ChromeService, NullService
 
@@ -187,7 +186,7 @@ def archive (self, url, output, onload, onsnapshot, browser,
             fd = open (outPath, 'wb')
         else:
             fd = open (output, 'wb')
-        writer = WARCWriter (fd, gzip=True)
+        writer = SerializingWARCWriter (fd, gzip=True)
 
         with WarcLoader (browser, url, writer, logBuffer=logBuffer,
                 maxBodySize=maxBodySize) as l:
@@ -230,6 +229,7 @@ def archive (self, url, output, onload, onsnapshot, browser,
             if screenshot:
                 self.update_state (state='PROGRESS', meta={'step': 'screenshot'})
                 writeScreenshot (l.tab, writer)
+        writer.flush ()
     if not output:
         outPath = os.path.join (app.conf.finished_dir, outFile)
         os.rename (fd.name, outPath)
diff --git a/crocoite/warc.py b/crocoite/warc.py
index 8e443fd..92ae601 100644
--- a/crocoite/warc.py
+++ b/crocoite/warc.py
@@ -34,7 +34,42 @@ from urllib.parse import urlsplit
 from logging.handlers import BufferingHandler
 import pychrome
 from datetime import datetime
+from threading import Thread
+from queue import Queue
+
 from warcio.timeutils import datetime_to_iso_date
+from warcio.warcwriter import WARCWriter
+
+class SerializingWARCWriter (WARCWriter):
+    """
+    Serializing WARC writer using separate writer thread and queue for
+    non-blocking operation
+
+    Needs an explicit .flush() before deletion.
+    """
+
+    def __init__ (self, filebuf, *args, **kwargs):
+        WARCWriter.__init__ (self, filebuf, *args, **kwargs)
+        self.queue = Queue ()
+        self.thread = Thread (target=self._run_writer)
+        self.thread.start ()
+
+    def flush (self):
+        self.queue.put (None)
+        self.thread.join ()
+        self.queue = None
+        self.thread = None
+
+    def _run_writer (self):
+        while True:
+            item = self.queue.get ()
+            if not item:
+                break
+            out, record = item
+            WARCWriter._write_warc_record (self, out, record)
+
+    def _write_warc_record (self, out, record):
+        self.queue.put ((out, record))
 
 class WARCLogHandler (BufferingHandler):
     """