[Twisted-Python] understanding IConsumer

[Roshan Cherian]

Hi Glyph and David,

Thanks for your answers and thanks for taking time to answer. It was indeed
my wrong understanding. I was trying to understand what
HTTPClientChannelRequest does in terms of producer and consumer (Its a lot
deep considering me being relatively new at this). Looking further at the
code I do understand that we have a producer which generates the necessary
data which can be written out using the transport and we have a consumer
which works of the data from the dataReceived (I hope my understanding is
correct and I don't know how it is buffered and I don't know how the flow
tells the consumer that there is data for use).

I understand there is
https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/15.4.0/core/howto/producers.html,
however I was hoping if there is an example of a simple consumer which
could be written using the data from dataReceived (that is assuming
whatever I understood above is correct). I didn't find enough information
on how to create a consumer.

Thanks,
-Roshan


On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 2, 2015, at 6:08 PM, Roshan Cherian <cherian.rosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Team,
>
>
> Hi Roshan!
>
> Sorry it took a while to get back to you.  Busy week.
>
> I am sorry if this is coming off as a newbie question. Its probably
> because I don't understand it enough.
>
>
> Newbie questions are fine, no need to apologize :).
>
> I would like to:
>
> 1. connectTCP to a host, port
>
>
> You should not use connectTCP directly.  Use Endpoints: <
> https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/15.4.0/core/howto/endpoints.html>.
>  (But this doesn't affect the rest of your question.)
>
> 2. use the transport to write
>
>
> Should be easy enough; `self.transport.write´.
>
> 3. Use consumer to read from the transport what the tcp server has written
> to
>
>
> You don't need to use the producer / consumer API just to read from the
> transport.  The transport does this automatically, and calls your
> protocol's dataReceived method every time data is received from the
> transport.
>
> I wasn't able to find information on consumer and how it gets triggered
> when data is available especially in the case I have
>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean about "how it gets triggered"; the producer and
> consumer APIs are documented here: <
> https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/15.4.0/core/howto/producers.html> but
> it would help if you could explain what *exactly* you're trying to
> achieve with them.
>
> -glyph
>
>
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