Trackers are Iterables instead of Generators

docs/demos/AIS_Solent_Tracker.py

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
 # :class:`set` we can simply update this with `current_tracks` at each timestep, not worrying about
 # duplicates.
 tracks = set()
-for step, (time, current_tracks) in enumerate(tracker.tracks_gen(), 1):
+for step, (time, current_tracks) in enumerate(tracker, 1):
     tracks.update(current_tracks)
     if not step % 10:
         print("Step: {} Time: {}".format(step, time))

docs/demos/OpenSky_Demo.py

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
 )
 
 tracks = set()
-for step, (time, current_tracks) in enumerate(kalman_tracker.tracks_gen(), 1):
+for step, (time, current_tracks) in enumerate(kalman_tracker, 1):
     tracks.update(current_tracks)
 
 # %%

docs/examples/Metrics.py

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
 # With this basic tracker built and metrics ready, we'll now run the tracker, adding the sets of
 # :class:`~.GroundTruthPath`, :class:`~.Detection` and :class:`~.Track` objects: to the metric
 # manager.
-for time, tracks in tracker.tracks_gen():
+for time, tracks in tracker:
     metric_manager.add_data(
         groundtruth_sim.groundtruth_paths, tracks, detection_sim.detections,
         overwrite=False,  # Don't overwrite, instead add above as additional data

docs/examples/Sensor_Platform_Simulation.py

@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ def initiate(self, detections, timestamp, **kwargs):
 groundtruth_paths = {}  # Store for plotting later
 detections = []  # Store for plotting later
 
-for time, ctracks in kalman_tracker.tracks_gen():
+for time, ctracks in kalman_tracker:
     for track in ctracks:
         loc = (track.state_vector[0], track.state_vector[2])
         if track not in kalman_tracks:

stonesoup/reader/yaml.py

@@ -74,16 +74,23 @@ class YAMLTrackReader(YAMLReader, Tracker):
     def data_gen(self):
         yield from super().data_gen()
 
-    @BufferedGenerator.generator_method
-    def tracks_gen(self):
-        tracks = dict()
-        for time, document in self.data_gen():
-            updated_tracks = set()
-            for track in document.get('tracks', set()):
-                if track.id in tracks:
-                    tracks[track.id].states = track.states
-                else:
-                    tracks[track.id] = track
-                updated_tracks.add(tracks[track.id])
-
-            yield time, updated_tracks
+    def __iter__(self):
+        self.data_iter = iter(self.data_gen())
+        self._tracks = dict()
+        return super().__iter__()
+
+    @property
+    def tracks(self):
+        return self._tracks
+
+    def __next__(self):
+        time, document = next(self.data_iter)
+        updated_tracks = set()
+        for track in document.get('tracks', set()):
+            if track.id in self.tracks:
+                self._tracks[track.id].states = track.states
+            else:
+                self._tracks[track.id] = track
+            updated_tracks.add(self.tracks[track.id])
+
+        return time, updated_tracks

stonesoup/tracker/base.py

@@ -2,23 +2,24 @@
 from abc import abstractmethod
 
 from ..base import Base
-from ..buffered_generator import BufferedGenerator
 
 
-class Tracker(Base, BufferedGenerator):
+class Tracker(Base):
     """Tracker base class"""
 
     @property
+    @abstractmethod
     def tracks(self):
-        return self.current[1]
+        raise NotImplementedError
 
-    @abstractmethod
-    @BufferedGenerator.generator_method
-    def tracks_gen(self):
-        """Returns a generator of tracks for each time step.
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
 
-        Yields
-        ------
+    @abstractmethod
+    def __next__(self):
+        """
+        Returns
+        -------
         : :class:`datetime.datetime`
             Datetime of current time step
         : set of :class:`~.Track`

stonesoup/tracker/pointprocess.py

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 from ..updater import Updater
 from ..hypothesiser.gaussianmixture import GaussianMixtureHypothesiser
 from ..mixturereducer.gaussianmixture import GaussianMixtureReducer
-from ..buffered_generator import BufferedGenerator
 
 
 class PointProcessMultiTargetTracker(Tracker):
@@ -46,6 +45,10 @@ def tracks(self):
             tracks.add(track)
         return tracks
 
+    def __iter__(self):
+        self.detector_iter = iter(self.detector)
+        return super().__iter__()
+
     def update_tracks(self):
         """
         Updates the tracks (:class:`Track`) associated with the filter.
@@ -74,27 +77,26 @@ def update_tracks(self):
                             self.extraction_threshold:
                         self.target_tracks[tag] = Track([component], id=tag)
 
-    @BufferedGenerator.generator_method
-    def tracks_gen(self):
-        for time, detections in self.detector:
-            # Add birth component
-            self.birth_component.timestamp = time
-            self.gaussian_mixture.append(self.birth_component)
-            # Perform GM Prediction and generate hypotheses
-            hypotheses = self.hypothesiser.hypothesise(
-                        self.gaussian_mixture.components,
-                        detections,
-                        time
-                        )
-            # Perform GM Update
-            self.gaussian_mixture = self.updater.update(hypotheses)
-            # Reduce mixture - Pruning and Merging
-            self.gaussian_mixture.components = \
-                self.reducer.reduce(self.gaussian_mixture.components)
-            # Update the tracks
-            self.update_tracks()
-            self.end_tracks()
-            yield time, self.tracks
+    def __next__(self):
+        time, detections = next(self.detector_iter)
+        # Add birth component
+        self.birth_component.timestamp = time
+        self.gaussian_mixture.append(self.birth_component)
+        # Perform GM Prediction and generate hypotheses
+        hypotheses = self.hypothesiser.hypothesise(
+                    self.gaussian_mixture.components,
+                    detections,
+                    time
+                    )
+        # Perform GM Update
+        self.gaussian_mixture = self.updater.update(hypotheses)
+        # Reduce mixture - Pruning and Merging
+        self.gaussian_mixture.components = \
+            self.reducer.reduce(self.gaussian_mixture.components)
+        # Update the tracks
+        self.update_tracks()
+        self.end_tracks()
+        return time, self.tracks
 
     def end_tracks(self):
         """