[Twisted-Python] unhandled exception in deferred has a delayed logging ?

[Jonathan Vanasco]

thanks so much for the quick response, and i wish i thought of looking in the FAQ ( just searched online, and nothing relevant came up )

Will defer.setDebugging(True) make these errors print/log sooner ?   i'm in the process of getting all the addErrback() commands and making this app "proper", which is how i found this out in the first place.  


On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <twisted-python at 2xlp.com> wrote:
> while migrating some functionality to a deferred callback chain and debugging my app, i noticed this oddity...
> 
> if a function doesn't have the proper args/kwargs definition, no error is raised and everything just hangs
> 
> ...
>  
> then the reactor just seems to hang.
> 
> if i kill the process, then the Unhandled Error and Traceback message prints.
> If i wait until the next interval that the timerservice runs, then the Unhandled Error and Traceback message will print then ( but that could be minutes/hours later ).
> 
> has anyone else noticed this before ?
> 
> The reactor isn't hanging, it's running just fine. The problem is you expect the Deferred's error to be logged immediately, which is not guaranteed; the error is only logged if the object is garbage collected, which may take a while, or never happen if you've kept extra references around. The latter can happen by accident.
>  
> are there any good ways around this , other than setting the timer service to be within seconds during bugtesting ?
> 	• Add a logging errback to all Deferreds at the end of the callback chain: d.addErrback(log.err).
> 	• Less effective, but also helpful, is making sure you delete all unnecessary references to a Deferred once you've fired it, to make sure it gets garbage collected:
>    self.d.callback(None)
>    del self.d # remove extra reference that prevents garbage collection
> 
> http://bit.ly/NS6ptj explains the issue.
> 
> -- 
> Itamar Turner-Trauring, Future Foundries LLC
> http://futurefoundries.com/ — Twisted consulting, training and support.
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