[Twisted-Python] Regarding Twisted Matrix

[Nathan]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:44 PM, naman jain <namanvit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a client server model in twisted, where the server spawns a thread (
> basically a test script in python that runs for about 20 mins)
> I want to track the progress of the thread, and send the progress to the
> client back
>
> So, I write something like this in my server:
>
> parent_conn, child_conn = Pipe()
> thread = Process(target = start_test.main_func, args=(SCRIPT_PATH,
> TEMP_OUTPUT_PATH, self.output_name, child_conn))
> thread.start()
>
> response = parent_conn.recv()
> print response //prints like: initialization done
> self.transport.write(response)
>
>
> response = parent_conn.recv()
> print response // configuration done
> self.transport.write(response)
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> thread.join()
>
>
> But the transport.write calls don't send at the same time. instead they wait
> for the thread to finish (coz of thread.join) and then append all the
> response and send it back; like "initialization doneconfiguration
> done...done"
> thereby defeating the purpose of creating a thread.
>
> How do I give the control to the reactor to write the data back, and still
> keep the thread running?
> or is there any other way these kinda of progress can be tracked ?
> I am kinda stuck with this :(

I'm no expert with threads, but I don't see any deferToThread in
there, which is what people on this list tend to mention whenever
threading comes up.  Perhaps you need to switch to the "twisted way"
to create your thread?

http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/8.2.0/api/twisted.internet.threads.html

~ Nathan