Thank you, this was very helpful!<br><br>-Don<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 8, 2007 9:09 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone <<a href="mailto:exarkun@divmod.com">exarkun@divmod.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 08:52:36 -0800, Don Smith <<a href="mailto:donwsmith@gmail.com">donwsmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>Hi all,<br>><br>>I'm still a bit of a novice but I'm trying to implement MultiService. The
<br>>trick is that I want my program to be able to change it's config while it is<br>>running. Once the app realizes it has a new configuration it needs to stop<br>>all services, load the new config and start services accordingly. However,
<br>>I'm stuck right now with how to stop all services. I'm thinking I need to<br>>loop over the children of MultiService and call stopService on them, but I'm<br>>not sure how to do that. Or should I just call stopServivce on the
<br>>MultiService object?<br><br></div></div>MultiService.stopService will call stopService on all of its child services,<br>so if the goal is to do that, then a for loop is more work for the same<br>result.<br><br>When you call stopService, keep in mind that it can return a Deferred which
<br>you'll probably want to wait for before trying to start anything again.<br><br>Likewise for startup, you can just call MultiService.startService to start<br>all of its children.<br><br>It might also be useful to know that removing a service from a running
<br>MultiService will stop the service and adding a service to a running<br>MultiService will start it.<br><br>Jean-Paul<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Twisted-Python mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com">
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