[Twisted-Python] Re: question about deferred lists tutorial description

Josef Novak josef.robert.novak at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 21:11:28 EDT 2008


Apologies for the previous premature email; it seems I cannot read.
The apparent contradiction I mentioned was the result of my conflating
'callback' with 'addCallback'.  However, I guess I'd still appreciate
some discussion on the nuances of these two functions.

Cheers

2008/3/12, Josef Novak <josef.robert.novak at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>   I have been using twisted intermittently for a couple of months, but
>  still don't feel like I have a good intuitive understanding of how to
>  get things done quickly, and efficiently with the framework.  Thus
>  I've been revisiting the tutorial documents and resolved to go through
>  them with a fine-toothed comb in an effort to really get my noggin
>  around things.
>   In the deffered discussion:
>  http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/defer.html
>
>   there is a section about defer.DeferredList, which contains code
>  examples and a subsequent note which -seems- to contradict the code
>  above it:
>
>  ------------begin code from tutorial----------
>  The callback will be called with a list of the results of the
>  Deferreds it contains, like so:
>
>  def printResult(result):
>     print result
>  deferred1 = defer.Deferred()
>  deferred2 = defer.Deferred()
>  deferred3 = defer.Deferred()
>  dl = defer.DeferredList([deferred1, deferred2, deferred3])
>  dl.addCallback(printResult)
>  deferred1.callback('one')
>  deferred2.errback('bang!')
>  deferred3.callback('three')
>  # At this point, dl will fire its callback, printing:
>  #     [(1, 'one'), (0, 'bang!'), (1, 'three')]
>  # (note that defer.SUCCESS == 1, and defer.FAILURE == 0)
>  ------------end code from tutorial----------
>
>  Ok, so far, so good.  You can build a series of deferreds, stick them
>  in a DeferredList, add a callback to the list, *subsequently* add some
>  callbacks/errbacks to the individual deferreds in the DeferredList,
>  fire things up, and have the results of the *subsequently added*
>  callbacks/errbacks sent to the DeferredList callback and printed out.
>
>  However, the following Note regarding callbacks for DeferredList
>  objects seems to contradict the promised results of the above
>  codeblock, stating that:
>
>  """If you want to apply callbacks to the individual Deferreds that go
>  into the DeferredList, you should be careful about when those
>  callbacks are added. The act of adding a Deferred to a DeferredList
>  inserts a callback into that Deferred (when that callback is run, it
>  checks to see if the DeferredList has been completed yet). The
>  important thing to remember is that it is this callback which records
>  the value that goes into the result list handed to the DeferredList's
>  callback.
>
>  Therefore, if you add a callback to the Deferred after adding the
>  Deferred to the DeferredList, the value returned by that callback will
>  not be given to the DeferredList's callback. To avoid confusion, we
>  recommend not adding callbacks to a Deferred once it has been used in
>  a DeferredList."""
>
>  Ok, so in fact, any callbacks/errbacks I need to add to deferreds
>  which will be added to a DeferredList object, need to be added Prior
>  to my adding the individual deferreds to the DeferredList object.  Or
>  so it would appear to my limited understanding.
>
>  I would greatly appreciate it if someone could resolve this apparent
>  contradiction for me, or if it is a mistake in the documentation,
>  please point out which one of the code block or the note is actually
>  correct.
>
>  Cheers!
>




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