sharedarea can be mapped to generic objects

plugins/python/python_plugin.c

@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ struct uwsgi_option uwsgi_python_options[] = {
 
 	{"python-raw", required_argument, 0, "load a python file for managing raw requests", uwsgi_opt_set_str, &up.raw, 0},
 
+#if defined(PYTHREE) || defined(Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_NEWBUFFER)
+	{"py-sharedarea", required_argument, 0, "create a sharedarea from a python bytearray object of the specified size", uwsgi_opt_add_string_list, &up.sharedarea, 0},
+#endif
+
 	{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
 };
 
@@ -263,6 +267,17 @@ pep405:
         up.swap_ts = simple_swap_ts;
         up.reset_ts = simple_reset_ts;
 	
+#if defined(PYTHREE) || defined(Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_NEWBUFFER)
+	struct uwsgi_string_list *usl = NULL;
+	uwsgi_foreach(usl, up.sharedarea) {
+		uint64_t len = uwsgi_n64(usl->value);
+		PyObject *obj = PyByteArray_FromStringAndSize(NULL, len);
+        	char *storage = PyByteArray_AsString(obj);
+		Py_INCREF(obj);
+		struct uwsgi_sharedarea *sa = uwsgi_sharedarea_init_ptr(storage, len);
+		sa->obj = obj;
+	}
+#endif
 
 	uwsgi_log_initial("Python main interpreter initialized at %p\n", up.main_thread);
 

plugins/python/uwsgi_pymodule.c

@@ -1708,6 +1708,18 @@ PyObject *py_uwsgi_sharedarea_memoryview(PyObject * self, PyObject * args) {
         	return PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError, "cannot get a memoryview object from sharedarea %d", id);
 	return PyMemoryView_FromBuffer(&info);
 }
+
+PyObject *py_uwsgi_sharedarea_object(PyObject * self, PyObject * args) {
+	int id;
+        if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i:sharedarea_object", &id)) {
+                return NULL;
+        }
+        struct uwsgi_sharedarea *sa = uwsgi_sharedarea_get_by_id(id, 0);
+        if (!sa) {
+                return PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError, "cannot get an object from sharedarea %d", id);
+        }
+	return (PyObject *) sa->obj;
+}
 #endif
 
 PyObject *py_uwsgi_spooler_freq(PyObject * self, PyObject * args) {
@@ -2599,6 +2611,7 @@ static PyMethodDef uwsgi_sa_methods[] = {
 	{"sharedarea_unlock", py_uwsgi_sharedarea_unlock, METH_VARARGS, ""},
 #if defined(PYTHREE) || defined(Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_NEWBUFFER)
 	{"sharedarea_memoryview", py_uwsgi_sharedarea_memoryview, METH_VARARGS, ""},
+	{"sharedarea_object", py_uwsgi_sharedarea_object, METH_VARARGS, ""},
 #endif
 	{NULL, NULL},
 };

plugins/python/uwsgi_python.h

@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ struct uwsgi_python {
 
 	char *raw;
 	PyObject *raw_callable;
+
+	struct uwsgi_string_list *sharedarea;
 };