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+#
+# Copyright 2016 the original author or authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+from twisted.internet.defer import Deferred
+from twisted.internet.defer import succeed
+
+
+class MessageQueue(object):
+    """
+    An event driven queue, similar to twisted.internet.defer.DeferredQueue
+    but which allows selective dequeing based on a predicate function.
+    Unlike DeferredQueue, there is no limit on backlog, and there is no queue
+    limit.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.waiting = []  # tuples of (d, predicate)
+        self.queue = []  # messages piling up here if no one is waiting
+
+    def reset(self):
+        """
+        Purge all content as well as waiters (by errback-ing their entries).
+        :return: None
+        """
+        for d, _ in self.waiting:
+            d.errback(Exception('mesage queue reset() was called'))
+        self.waiting = []
+        self.queue = []
+
+    def _cancelGet(self, d):
+        """
+        Remove a deferred from our waiting list.
+        :param d: The deferred that was been canceled.
+        :return: None
+        """
+        for i in range(len(self.waiting)):
+            if self.waiting[i][0] is d:
+                self.waiting.pop(i)
+
+    def put(self, obj):
+        """
+        Add an object to this queue
+        :param obj: arbitrary object that will be added to the queue
+        :return:
+        """
+
+        # if someone is waiting for this, return right away
+        for i in range(len(self.waiting)):
+            d, predicate = self.waiting[i]
+            if predicate is None or predicate(obj):
+                self.waiting.pop(i)
+                d.callback(obj)
+                return
+
+        # otherwise...
+        self.queue.append(obj)
+
+    def get(self, predicate=None):
+        """
+        Attempt to retrieve and remove an object from the queue that
+        matches the optional predicate.
+        :return: Deferred which fires with the next object available.
+        If predicate was provided, only objects for which
+        predicate(obj) is True will be considered.
+        """
+        for i in range(len(self.queue)):
+            msg = self.queue[i]
+            if predicate is None or predicate(msg):
+                self.queue.pop(i)
+                return succeed(msg)
+
+        # there were no matching entries if we got here, so we wait
+        d = Deferred(canceller=self._cancelGet)
+        self.waiting.append((d, predicate))
+        return d
+
+