[Twisted-Python] blocking code alongside with Twisted

[Shuai Lin]

Thanks for the quick reply. I don't need Ampoule, since the tasks are
simply calling some libreoffice api to convert documents to pdf format, but
thank you all the same!

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

>
> 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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