[Twisted-Python] PB - Dual Use Objects?

[Sergio Trejo]

Radix -- this was an excellent suggestion - it works quite well. Thanks for 
your trips. Its been interesting delving into the aspects of Avatars, the 
Mind, Realms and Portals. Good stuff.

Sergio

>From: Christopher Armstrong <radix at twistedmatrix.com>
>Reply-To: Twisted discussion stuff <twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com>
>To: Twisted discussion stuff <twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com>
>Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] PB - Dual Use Objects?
>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:45:32 -0400
>
>Sergio Trejo wrote:
>>I'm curious, for those who use PB for their projects, do they make their 
>>objects at each end of the wire dual use (meaning, both objects run a PB 
>>Server and PB Client Factory such that each object can remotely call the 
>>other), or do most people stick to a typical client-server model wherby 
>>the PB Server Factory object just waits for requests from the Client and 
>>does not attempt to initiate any messages to the client?
>>
>>I ask because as a newbie to Twisted, I also started reading the 
>>twisted.flow HowTo and it looks like there are some really interesting 
>>things that could be done with PB. I have an app in mind whereby a PB 
>>Client (A) triggers a PB Server, and then the PB Server expects incoming 
>>data from another PB Client (B) but the data that comes in from B is 
>>useful to pass back to A (all in a deferred manner however). Therefore the 
>>PB Server acts as an intermediary. But this could get really hairy if I 
>>turned the PB Server into a server handling multiple requests from PB 
>>Clients of type A and PB Clients of type B (could look like a spaghetti 
>>bowl f the Server is required to route data from the Bs to the As) so 
>>maybe better to stick with a typical client-server model.
>
>No, this is very simple. First of all, you need the Bs to pass a "mind" 
>object to pb.login(). It'll probably be a Referenceable subclass instance. 
>You'll get this mind object passed to your Realm's requestAvatar method, so 
>you can save it wherever relevant there. Let's pretend this object has a 
>messageFromAnA remote method.
>
>Then the As connect, and do middleman.callRemote('doSomethingToAB'):
>
>def remote_doSomethingToAB(self):
>   return self.mind.callRemote('messageFromAnA')
>
>callRemote will return a Deferred that fires with the result from B's 
>messageFromAnA method, and PB will pass this result off as the result to A, 
>so A is getting the result that B returned.
>
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