Class BaseTaskRunner

This constructor should always be called with keyword arguments. Arguments are:

*group* should be None; reserved for future extension when a ThreadGroup class is implemented.

*target* is the callable object to be invoked by the run() method. Defaults to None, meaning nothing is called.

*name* is the thread name. By default, a unique name is constructed of the form "Thread-N" where N is a small decimal number.

*args* is the argument tuple for the target invocation. Defaults to ().

*kwargs* is a dictionary of keyword arguments for the target invocation. Defaults to {}.

If a subclass overrides the constructor, it must make sure to invoke the base class constructor (Thread.__init__()) before doing anything else to the thread.

Overrides: object.__init__

(inherited documentation)

BaseTaskRunner's run() method ensures that we can capture exceptions which might occur in this thread. Do not override this method -- instead define the core logic for the task run operation in '_run()'

Note that for sub-workflow tasks we're interpreting raw client python code on this thread, so exceptions are *very likely* here -- this is not a corner case.

Overrides: threading.Thread.run