[Twisted-Python] XML-RPC Server in multiservice application

Itamar Turner-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Sun Nov 27 08:35:16 EST 2011


On 11/27/2011 06:58 AM, Don Schoeman wrote:
> I've got a multiservice application running and I'm using the
> MultiService class from twisted.application.service to do this. All my
> existing services are setup as children of my multiservice instance.
>
> In addition I'd like to run an XML/RPC server as as well. Is it ok if I
> instantiate the XML/RPC listening server as per the examples?
>
> r = MyXMLRPCServer()
> reactor.listenTCP(7080, server.Site(r))
>
> I've tried this and it does seem to peacefully co-exist alongside the
> other services, but is this the correct way of implementing the XML/RPC
> server on a multiservice application?

A more consistent way, though, would be to have a subclass of Service 
hooked up to your multiservice. This service's startService method would 
do the above, and stopService would do port.stopListening() on the port 
returned from listenTCP.



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