[Twisted-web] Deferred inside XMLRPC method

[Colin Alston]

On 30/08/2007 12:55 Daniel de la Cuesta wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> I am developing an middleware XMLRPC Server. It connects with a mail 
> server and provides and XMLRPC interface to read and send mail.
> 
> Is there any way to return the result of the xmlrpc method in deferred's 
> callback?
> 
> Is there any way to return a deferred object inside the xmlrpc method?
> 
> Is it a good solution using asynchronous chunks (deferreds) inside a 
> synchronous protocol as it is XML-RPC (HTTP)?

I use this pattern on the server side

def xmlrpc_getStuff(self, stuff):
     def fail(_):
         print "Oh dear!"
         return False

     def returnStuff(dbResult):
         otherstuff = doStuffWith(dbResult)
         return otherStuff

     return self.db.getStuff(stuff).addCallbacks(returnStuff, fail)

And this one on the client side

def checkKey(stuff):
     def fail(_):
         return False
     def good(stuff):
         return stuff
     return Proxy(xmlServer, allowNone=True).callRemote('getStuff', 
stuff).addCallbacks(good, fail)

There are better ways depending on what you're really doing..

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