[Twisted-Python] How to dispatch message to different servers
Benjamin BERTRAND
beenje at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 14:52:56 MST 2013
Thanks for the answer!
I was hoping to avoid having to put something like AMP in place, because it looked a bit overkill for my case.
I think I actually found a way :-)
I guess I can use the same factory to start all my servers.
So I start my sniffer (in a thread) in my ServerFactory and I keep a dictionary of deferred for each line (corresponds to an emitter and a server port).
It allows me to call the messageToSend method corresponding to the proper server when receiving data.
Here is a code extract of what I implemented:
class Oldimon(Protocol):
def __init__(self, factory):
self.factory = factory
self.line = None
def connectionMade(self):
# Check the server port to get the line
# associated to this protocol
port = self.transport.getHost().port
self.line = LINES_PORT[port]
# Add the callback for this line
self.factory.deferred[self.line] = defer.Deferred()
self.factory.deferred[self.line].addCallback(self.messageToSend)
class OldimonFactory(ServerFactory):
def __init__(self, device, pcap_filter):
# pcapDataReceived callback is called everytime a message
# is received
reactor.callInThread(run_pcap, device, pcap_filter, self.pcapDataReceived)
# Dict with a deferred for each line
self.deferred = dict(zip(LINES_PORT.values(), [None] * len(LINES_PORT)))
def buildProtocol(self, addr):
return Oldimon(self)
def pcapDataReceived(self, data, line):
if self.deferred[line] is not None:
# Fire the callback for line
d, self.deferred[line] = self.deferred[line], None
d.callback(data)
oldimon_factory = OldimonFactory(device, pcap_filter)
for port in LINES_PORT.keys():
reactor.listenTCP(port, oldimon_factory)
reactor.run()
Le 1 mars 2013 à 15:31, Laurens Van Houtven <_ at lvh.cc> a écrit :
> Well, you'd presumably have a connection to each of the servers in the form of a client factory and a protocol instance. Then, every time you get a message, you figure out which protocol instance you want (the one for the appropriate server) and send a message to it. You could do that with self.transport.write, of course, but it would be much easier to just use a ready-made RPC thing.
>
> One such RPC thing is AMP, which comes with Twisted. You can read more about it here:
>
> http://amp-protocol.net/
> https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/amp.html
>
> You will probably end up having a command like HandlePacket or something (presumably you can come up with a more apt domain-specific name), and something close to self.servers[serverFor(packet.origin)].callRemote(HandlePacket, packet.data), or whatever.
>
> I realize this is still pretty vague and high level, so feel free to ask more questions about the parts that are unclear :)
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Benjamin BERTRAND <beenje at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to replace a piece of software that sniffs the traffic on one interface. It gets different messages that are each associated to a specific emitter.
> On the same machine, one server is started for each emitter (on a different port).
> And the application is just supposed to use the proper server to send the messages captured (to a client on another machine).
>
> Not sure if it's clear, but basically if I have 2 emitters A and B, I'll start 2 servers (a and b).
> My sniffer will get messages A1, A2, B1, B2, B3...
> I have to pass messages A1, A2 to server a, that will just send them to the client (if it is connected of course).
> And B1, B2, B3 to server b.
> I don't need any buffering. If no client is connected, messages captured are just discarded.
>
> To sniff the network, I want to use pylibpcap or pcapy.
> I found this example to make it work with twisted: http://dound.com/2009/09/integrating-twisted-with-a-pcap-based-python-packet-sniffer/
>
> Starting several servers that use the same protocol is not a problem.
> But how do I pass the messages captured to the right server?
> How do I make the link between the function sniffing the network and the servers?
>
> Thanks
>
> Benjamin
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> lvh
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