[Twisted-Python] Perspective broker and inlineCallbacks exception handling problem

[Maik Friedmann]

Hello,

I am developing a basic client/server application based on twisted.
For communication purposes I am using perspective broker. I have
problems with inlineCallbacks and remotely raised errors:

My client code looks like this (pseudo code):

class Client:
  @defer.inlineCallbacks
  def login(self, prms):
    self.factory = pb.PBClientFactory()
    reactor.connect(host, port)
    self.perspective = yield self.factory.login()
    self.services = yield self.perspective.callRemote('getClientServices')

When using this class in application, I want to handle errors raised remotely:

@defer.inlineCallbacks
def main():
  client = Client()
  try:
    yield client.login(prms)
  except Exception, e:
    print 'Handled exception:', e

However, no matter what is raised on remote side, except block is
never used. But if I change the code to plain except, exception is
handled:

@defer.inlineCallbacks
def main():
  client = Client()
  try:
    client.login(prms)
  except:
    print 'Some error occurred'

If I rewrite this function using classic deferred style, it works as
excepted (prints error with the correct type):

def eb_failure(failure):
  print type(failure), failure

def cb_success(result):
  print 'OK', result

def main():
  client = Client()
  d = client.login(prms)
  d.addCallbacks(cb_success, eb_failure)

I am purposely raising errors derived from pb.Error. Using the
inlineCallbacks version I can only inspect remote errors with
sys.exc_info(), and that results in a plain string object, which
includes the classname of the original error like
'myerror.MyAuthenticationError'

What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to resolve this?

Regards,
Maik