Implement a pipelining API

This is so that we can send multiple commands to a board while
keeping to only one request-response cycle.

Co-Authored-By: Jake Howard <[email protected]>

sbot/serial_wrapper.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import itertools
 import logging
 import sys
 import threading
@@ -16,7 +17,6 @@
 import serial
 
 from .exceptions import BoardDisconnectionError
-from .logging import TRACE
 from .utils import IN_SIMULATOR, BoardIdentity
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -122,51 +122,88 @@ def stop(self) -> None:
         """
         self._disconnect()
 
+    def _connect_if_needed(self) -> None:
+        if not self.serial.is_open:
+            if not self._connect():
+                # If the serial port cannot be opened raise an error,
+                # this will be caught by the retry decorator
+                raise BoardDisconnectionError((
+                    f'Connection to board {self.identity.board_type}:'
+                    f'{self.identity.asset_tag} could not be established',
+                ))
+
     @retry(times=3, exceptions=(BoardDisconnectionError, UnicodeDecodeError))
-    def query(self, data: str) -> str:
+    def query_multi(self, commands: list[str]) -> list[str]:
         """
         Send a command to the board and return the response.
 
-        This method will automatically reconnect to the board and retry the command
+        This method will automatically reconnect to the board and retry the commands
         up to 3 times on serial errors.
 
-        :param data: The data to write to the board.
+        :param commands: The commands to write to the board.
         :raises BoardDisconnectionError: If the serial connection fails during the transaction,
             including failing to respond to the command.
-        :return: The response from the board with the trailing newline removed.
+        :return: The responses from the board with the trailing newlines removed.
         """
+        # Verify no command has a newline in it, and build a command `bytes` from the
+        # list of commands
+        encoded_commands: list[bytes] = []
+        invalid_commands: list[tuple[str, str]] = []
+
+        for command in commands:
+            if '\n' in command:
+                invalid_commands.append(("contains newline", command))
+            else:
+                try:
+                    byte_form = command.encode(encoding='utf-8')
+                except UnicodeEncodeError as e:
+                    invalid_commands.append((str(e), command))
+                else:
+                    encoded_commands.append(byte_form)
+                    encoded_commands.append(b'\n')
+
+        if invalid_commands:
+            invalid_commands.sort()
+
+            invalid_command_groups = dict(itertools.groupby(
+                invalid_commands,
+                key=lambda x: x[0],
+            ))
+
+            error_message = "\n".join(
+                ["Invalid commands:"] +
+                [
+                    f"  {reason}: " + ", ".join(
+                        repr(command)
+                        for _, command in grouped_commands
+                    )
+                    for reason, grouped_commands in invalid_command_groups.items()
+                ],
+            )
+            raise ValueError(error_message)
+
+        full_commands = b''.join(encoded_commands)
+
         with self._lock:
-            if not self.serial.is_open:
-                if not self._connect():
-                    # If the serial port cannot be opened raise an error,
-                    # this will be caught by the retry decorator
-                    raise BoardDisconnectionError((
-                        f'Connection to board {self.identity.board_type}:'
-                        f'{self.identity.asset_tag} could not be established',
-                    ))
+            # If the serial port is not open, try to connect
+            self._connect_if_needed()  # TODO: Write me
 
+            # Contain all the serial IO in a try-catch; on error, disconnect and raise an error
             try:
-                logger.log(TRACE, f'Serial write - {data!r}')
-                cmd = data + '\n'
-                self.serial.write(cmd.encode())
-
-                response = self.serial.readline()
-                try:
-                    response_str = response.decode().rstrip('\n')
-                except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
-                    logger.warning(
-                        f"Board {self.identity.board_type}:{self.identity.asset_tag} "
-                        f"returned invalid characters: {response!r}")
-                    raise e
-                logger.log(
-                    TRACE, f'Serial read  - {response_str!r}')
-
-                if b'\n' not in response:
-                    # If readline times out no error is raised, it returns an incomplete string
-                    logger.warning((
-                        f'Connection to board {self.identity.board_type}:'
-                        f'{self.identity.asset_tag} timed out waiting for response'
-                    ))
+                # Send the commands to the board
+                self.serial.write(full_commands)
+
+                # Read as many lines as there are commands
+                responses_binary = [
+                    self.serial.readline()
+                    for _ in range(len(commands))
+                ]
+
+                # Check all responses have a trailing newline (an incomplete
+                # response will not).
+                # This is within the lock and try-catch to ensure the serial port
+                # is closed on error.
+                if not all(response.endswith(b'\n') for response in responses_binary):
                     raise serial.SerialException('Timeout on readline')
             except serial.SerialException:
                 # Serial connection failed, close the port and raise an error
@@ -176,15 +213,51 @@ def query(self, data: str) -> str:
                     'disconnected during transaction'
                 ))
 
-            if response_str.startswith('NACK'):
-                _, error_msg = response_str.split(':', maxsplit=1)
-                logger.error((
-                    f'Board {self.identity.board_type}:{self.identity.asset_tag} '
-                    f'returned NACK on write command: {error_msg}'
-                ))
-                raise RuntimeError(error_msg)
+        # Decode all the responses as UTF-8
+        try:
+            responses_decoded = [
+                response.decode("utf-8").rstrip('\n')
+                for response in responses_binary
+            ]
+        except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"Board {self.identity.board_type}:{self.identity.asset_tag} "
+                f"returned invalid characters: {responses_binary!r}")
+            raise e
+
+        # Collect any NACK responses; if any, raise an error
+        nack_prefix = 'NACK:'
+        nack_responses = [
+            response
+            for response in responses_decoded
+            if response.startswith(nack_prefix)
+        ]
+
+        if nack_responses:
+            errors = [response[len(nack_prefix):] for response in nack_responses]
+            # We can't use exception groups due to needing to support Python 3.8
+            raise (
+                RuntimeError(errors[0])
+                if len(errors) == 1
+                else RuntimeError("Multiple errors: " + ", ".join(errors))
+            )
+
+        # Return the list of responses
+        return responses_decoded
+
+    def query(self, data: str) -> str:
+        """
+        Send a command to the board and return the response.
+
+        This method will automatically reconnect to the board and retry the command
+        up to 3 times on serial errors.
 
-            return response_str
+        :param data: The data to write to the board.
+        :raises BoardDisconnectionError: If the serial connection fails during the transaction,
+            including failing to respond to the command.
+        :return: The response from the board with the trailing newline removed.
+        """
+        return self.query_multi([data])[0]
 
     def write(self, data: str) -> None:
         """