[Twisted-Python] Implementation of the Erlang node protocol

Steve Freitas sflist at ihonk.com
Tue Dec 25 18:57:42 EST 2007


That is waaaaay too cool. I've got to try this out.

Steve

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 19:27 +0100, Thomas Hervé wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> I want to point out to a project I started in my Twisted sandbox to 
> implement the Erlang node protocol: 
> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/sandbox/therve/erlang. It's 
> vaguely inspired from the py_interface project: 
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/erlang/py_interface/.
> 
> What's the content? It allows you to create a hidden Erlang node as a 
> Twisted process, so that you can call methods on another Erlang node and 
> receive calls (like you can do with C or Java with standard erlang 
> distribution). It implements serialization and deserialization for most 
> of the basic types, and both direction RPC. The benefit, of course, is 
> to be able to get all Twisted protocols for free inside an Erlang 
> program, or on the contrary to access Erlang power inside a Twisted 
> server. I'm even writing a lit bit of documention: 
> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/sandbox/therve/erlang.xhtml?format=raw.
> 
> I started it hoping to use it for something serious, but I couldn't, so 
> now the project is a bit stalled until someone really use it. I'd be 
> glad if it could be useful for anyone, and I'm willing to help by 
> debugging and adding features. You can contact me on the #twisted 
> channel or on this ML.
> 





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