[Twisted-Python] Repeatedly calling Deferred.callback()
Brian Granger
bgranger at scu.edu
Thu Jan 12 00:29:05 EST 2006
On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:52:02PM -0800, Brian Granger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are Deferred objects designed to have their callback method called
>> multiple times it there are a multiple (discrete) results that arrive
>> asynchronously? If not, what is the proper construct in Twisted for
>> returning multiple asynchronous results from a single method?
>
> Deferred objects are one-shot by design, so they are not by
> themselves suitable
> for multiple asynchronous results.
>
> If you have a fixed number of asynchronous operations that want to
> return
> results, you could just return a Deferred per expected result.
> Callers that
> wish to aggregate those can use a DeferredList.
>
> If you have something that's more like an event source -- you don't
> know how
> many results to expect in advance, you are probably better off with
> callable
> that is invoked each time, and dispatches the result to whatever
> code is
> appropriate at the time. Quite possibly a state machine written as
> a class with
> different methods that will be invoked for the different kinds of
> events/results
> you expect is appropriate.
>
This is the case that I have. This is what I did originally, but
then I wanted to be fancy and use Deferred's. Guess I will go back
to using some version of a callable.
Thanks.
> If you have something that's conceptually one operation, but the
> results trickle
> in in parts, then perhaps a hybrid approach is suitable. e.g.
> consider
> downloading a large web-page: somewhere a dataReceived handler is
> getting
> invoked many times, and this can be used to e.g. update a progress
> bar in a UI
> somewhere, but once the entire page has been downloaded then a
> complete result
> can be passed to a Deferred for code that only cares about the
> final result.
>
> There are probably lots of other variations as well, depending on
> exactly what
> you need.
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> -Andrew.
>
>
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