[Twisted-Python] mktap and twistd

John Pote johnpote at jptechnical.co.uk
Thu Mar 8 09:49:33 MST 2007


Thanks for the quick reply.
John

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:12:27 +0000, John Pote 
> <johnpote at jptechnical.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm just putting together a twisted app that will have an http server 
>> for a control UI and a TCP server running my own protocol. I've read 
>> the 'Configuring and using the Twisted.Web Server' but am a bit 
>> confused as to the relation between rolling my own as described at 
>> the beginning of the howto and the use of mktap and twistd. Do I take 
>> it correctly that mktap makes a simple application that is not 
>> particularly adaptable? Assuming I roll my own as shown at the 
>> beginning of the howto how does twistd fit in? I seem to remember 
>> reading somewhere that twistd was the preferred means of starting a 
>> twisted app.
>
>
> You have the right idea about "mktap web", I think.  It lets you 
> configure
> a web server which has some features like serving static files from 
> the file
> system and exposing per-user folders and other similar things, but it 
> gives
> you no way to add new functionality or customize the behavior beyond 
> what can
> be done via the command line arguments it offers.
>
> You can hook your own thing into twistd easily enough, though.  You do 
> this
> by making a mktap/twistd plugin, as described here:
>
>  http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/tap.html
>
> This will let you create a tap file using "mktap <your app>" and start
> it with "twistd -f <your app>.tap".  Also, starting with Twisted 2.5,
> you can skip the mktap step (for your plugin and for all the existing
> mktap plugins) and just do "twistd <your app>", which will do the same
> thing as the two commands above.
>
> There are also tac files and arbitrary non-IServiceMaker plugins, but
> IServiceMaker is probably a good place to start and should take care of
> most or all of your needs for now.
>
>>
>> I've tried making a simple web server with mktap and twistd which 
>> works fine except on my winXP box does not run in the background. 
>> This is a winXP limitation I presume.
>
>
> Yea, no daemonization support in twistd on Windows.  There's some code 
> lying
> around someplace to make a service, which is kind of like daemonization I
> guess, but it hasn't been integrated with twistd as far as I know.
>
> Jean-Paul
>
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