[Twisted-Python] Learning Twisted
Glyph Lefkowitz
glyph at divmod.com
Sun May 16 23:01:45 EDT 2004
Jason Diamond wrote:
>
> However, the ircLogBot example [1], implies that calling self.join will
> eventually invoke self.joined as if self.joined was the permanent
> callback for calling self.join. I like your explanation for the
> distinction between deferreds and methods but this seems to be blurring
> the two. What happens if an error occurred while trying to join a
> channel? (I'm not trying to pick anybody--I'm just trying to make sense
> of the examples that I'm seeing.)
>
> -- Jason
>
> [1]
> http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/howto/clients#auto5
Aah, but that taps into the deep mystery of IRC. The server can send
you a 'joined' notification *even if you didn't previously request to
join a channel*. Also there is no particular way to hook up a join
request and a join notification; if you request to join #foobar 3 times,
and then you only get one notification of having joined, it's not clear
which request gets the callback; commands are not tagged.
Of course this varies between IRC servers, too.
Better-specified protocols will tend to have better-specified interfaces
that make use of Deferreds more.
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