twisted.application.internet : API documentation

Reactor-based Services

Here are services to run clients, servers and periodic services using the reactor.

If you want to run a server service, StreamServerEndpointService defines a service that can wrap an arbitrary IStreamServerEndpoint as an IService. See also twisted.application.strports.service for constructing one of these directly from a descriptive string.

Additionally, this module (dynamically) defines various Service subclasses that let you represent clients and servers in a Service hierarchy. Endpoints APIs should be preferred for stream server services, but since those APIs do not yet exist for clients or datagram services, many of these are still useful.

They are as follows:

 TCPServer, TCPClient,
 UNIXServer, UNIXClient,
 SSLServer, SSLClient,
 UDPServer, UDPClient,
 UNIXDatagramServer, UNIXDatagramClient,
 MulticastServer

These classes take arbitrary arguments in their constructors and pass them straight on to their respective reactor.listenXXX or reactor.connectXXX calls.

For example, the following service starts a web server on port 8080: TCPServer(8080, server.Site(r)). See the documentation for the reactor.listen/connect* methods for more information.

Class	GenericServer	Serve Generic clients
Class	GenericClient	Connect to Generic.
Class	TimerService	Service to periodically call a function
Class	CooperatorService	Simple `service.IService` which starts and stops a `twisted.internet.task.Cooperator`.
Class	StreamServerEndpointService	A `StreamServerEndpointService` is an `IService` which runs a server on a listening port described by an `IStreamServerEndpoint`.
Function	_maybeGlobalReactor
Class	_VolatileDataService	Undocumented
Class	_AbstractServer
Class	_AbstractClient

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