[Twisted-Python] Wrapping a Perspective Broker remote object with a blocking API

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:22:37 +1000, Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi everyone.
>
> [snip]
>
>Server side it is pretty standard.  Client side I run the twisted
>reactor in a separate (non-main) thread, and use threading.Event()
>objects placed into a 'pass through' callback to emulate blocking
>until the required deferred has its result.
>
>I have attached a simple server and client, with callback
>functionality illustrated.

The example code doesn't do anything with Events, and I'm not sure I
understand what you're describing above, so I don't know if that part
of your code is correct or not.

>
>I have not really looked into the thread safety issues yet, but have
>been looking into reactor.callFromThread and whether it is required
>here.

Yes, it is.  As your code is now, it calls APIs which are not threadsafe
from a non-reactor thread.  This isn't allowed and will definitely result
in incorrect behavior sometimes.

>
>If the entire approach is inherently broken for some reason, I'd like
>to know so I can look at alternatives.

I'm not sure why you're trying to do this at all, instead of just using
Twisted in a single-threaded manner.

Jean-Paul