[Twisted-Python] using perspective broker to talk to a subprocess?
Ryan Burns
rburns at stic.net
Tue Oct 6 21:18:27 MDT 2009
Hi All,
I'm writing a twisted application where I'd like to run and
communicate with subprocesses that also happen to be twisted apps. I'm
wondering if I can somehow combine twisted's process and perspective
broker code so that I can launch a twisted server in a subprocess and
communicate with it via the perspective broker using the subprocess's
stdin/stdout. Ideally, it would be great if this could scale, say up
to 200 subprocesses.
Disregarding reasons of why I would want to do this, is this something
that is possible? I've looked at the perspective broker classes and
the processProtocol as well as some of the helpers, but I don't quite
see how to make it happen. Should I just use a socket instead and
handle managing unique names/ports per subprocess on my own? Or any
alternative ideas? Ultimately I just want to run subprocesses from my
twisted app and communicate with them without having to do a bunch of
parsing on my own and the subprocesses will be twisted as well, so I
figure why not make use of twisted for my IPC.
Thanks,
Ryan
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