[Twisted-Python] gRPC support in Twisted Python

[Werner Thie]

On 9/28/16 9:13 AM, Nursimulu, Khen wrote:
> Thanks Glyth for the prompt response.

>     On Sep 28, 2016, at 6:13 AM, Nursimulu, Khen <knursimu at ciena.com
>     <mailto:knursimu at ciena.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is there a plan (or an implementation) to support gRPC within
>     Twisted Python?   My understanding is that gRPC is built using
>     Futures and creates its own threads for all its event handling.
>     There is also a gRPC Python package (grpcio 1.0.0) that is available
>     for python 2.7.    In order to use gRPC with Twisted Python in 2.7
>     is the only way to have gRPC run in its own thread?
>
> There's no plan that I'm aware of.  You could definitely run gRPC in a
> thread currently, although it would be nice if grpc worked natively with
> Twisted.
>
> Probably contributing this upstream into the gRPC project would be the
> best way to start, and if they're not receptive, starting a separate
> 'txgRPC' project.
>

Interesting, with the browser implementation in the works this could 
become a full replacement of nevow/athena

Werner