[Twisted-Python] Perspective Broker vs AMP

[Simon Pickles]

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:00:40 +0100, Simon Pickles 
> <sipickles at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You may have seen my recent posts about data comms across nodes of 
>> server network.
>>
>> Phil kindly pointed me towards PB and AMP which, after some fiddling 
>> both look viable. However, I do have one question: If clients can 
>> request remote data from the server, is the reverse possible?
>>
>> As I understand PB, a client can get the root object of a 
>> PBServerFactory, thru which it can call methods with the 'remote_' 
>> prefix. I'm not clear how this can work in the other direction. As 
>> for AMP, this seems similar - the client uses callRemote() to execute 
>> remote methods on the amp server.
>>
>> Since I have node clients all talking through a server, I need the 
>> client to make requests to the server, which in turn requests the 
>> appropriate data from the corresponding client.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice on this
>>
>
> In addition to the other suggestions that have been made in this thread,
> notice that PBClientFactory.login takes two arguments: the credentials
> object used for authentication and an optional "client" object which
> defaults to None.  

This looks very interesting.

> The value of this parameter is made available to your
> realm in the `mind´ parameter.  

Er, I'm sorry but I don't understand realm and mind. I'm new to this area.

> This means you can pass a reference to
> login for this parameter and the server can use it to make calls onto the
> client whenever it wants, rather than having to wait for a subsequent
> call made by the client.

This is exactly what I would like to do.

Simon


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