[Twisted-Python] blocking code alongside with Twisted
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Fri Aug 31 23:53:11 MDT 2012
On Aug 31, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Shuai Lin <linshuai2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My server mainly consists of two modules:
> -- http api handling (using twisted)
> -- backend blocking tasks
>
> The backend tasks have to block, because I have to call some third-party API, which is always blocking. What's more, since the third-party api call is blocking, I plan to use a thread pool to implement a connection pool.
>
> My question is: Is it ok to use twisted in this manner? i.e. I just run `reactor.run()' in the main thread (to handle the http api request), and the rest of the program is blocking -- and intrinsically not related to twisted.
>
> Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks!
Sure, this is fine. This is why the reactor has callInThread() after all :). It may also make sense to use something like Ampoule <https://launchpad.net/ampoule> if the backend tasks are CPU intensive as well, and you want multi-core parallelism.
-glyph
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