The Evolution of Finger: Twisted client support using Perspective Broker

  1. Introduction
  2. Use Perspective Broker

Introduction

This is the seventh part of the Twisted tutorial Twisted from Scratch, or The Evolution of Finger.

In this part, we add a Perspective Broker service to the finger application so that Twisted clients can access the finger server. Perspective Broker is introduced in depth in its own section of the core howto index.

Use Perspective Broker

We add support for perspective broker, Twisted's native remote object protocol. Now, Twisted clients will not have to go through XML-RPCish contortions to get information about users.

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# Do everything properly, and componentize from twisted.application import internet, service from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor, defer from twisted.words.protocols import irc from twisted.protocols import basic from twisted.python import components from twisted.web import resource, server, static, xmlrpc, microdom from twisted.spread import pb from zope.interface import Interface, implements import cgi class IFingerService(Interface): def getUser(user): """ Return a deferred returning a string. """ def getUsers(): """ Return a deferred returning a list of strings. """ class IFingerSetterService(Interface): def setUser(user, status): """ Set the user's status to something. """ def catchError(err): return "Internal error in server" class FingerProtocol(basic.LineReceiver): def lineReceived(self, user): d = self.factory.getUser(user) d.addErrback(catchError) def writeValue(value): self.transport.write(value+'\r\n') self.transport.loseConnection() d.addCallback(writeValue) class IFingerFactory(Interface): def getUser(user): """ Return a deferred returning a string. """ def buildProtocol(addr): """ Return a protocol returning a string. """ class FingerFactoryFromService(protocol.ServerFactory): implements(IFingerFactory) protocol = FingerProtocol def __init__(self, service): self.service = service def getUser(self, user): return self.service.getUser(user) components.registerAdapter(FingerFactoryFromService, IFingerService, IFingerFactory) class FingerSetterProtocol(basic.LineReceiver): def connectionMade(self): self.lines = [] def lineReceived(self, line): self.lines.append(line) def connectionLost(self, reason): if len(self.lines) == 2: self.factory.setUser(*self.lines) class IFingerSetterFactory(Interface): def setUser(user, status): """ Return a deferred returning a string. """ def buildProtocol(addr): """ Return a protocol returning a string. """ class FingerSetterFactoryFromService(protocol.ServerFactory): implements(IFingerSetterFactory) protocol = FingerSetterProtocol def __init__(self, service): self.service = service def setUser(self, user, status): self.service.setUser(user, status) components.registerAdapter(FingerSetterFactoryFromService, IFingerSetterService, IFingerSetterFactory) class IRCReplyBot(irc.IRCClient): def connectionMade(self): self.nickname = self.factory.nickname irc.IRCClient.connectionMade(self) def privmsg(self, user, channel, msg): user = user.split('!')[0] if self.nickname.lower() == channel.lower(): d = self.factory.getUser(msg) d.addErrback(catchError) d.addCallback(lambda m: "Status of %s: %s" % (msg, m)) d.addCallback(lambda m: self.msg(user, m)) class IIRCClientFactory(Interface): """ @ivar nickname """ def getUser(user): """ Return a deferred returning a string. """ def buildProtocol(addr): """ Return a protocol. """ class IRCClientFactoryFromService(protocol.ClientFactory): implements(IIRCClientFactory) protocol = IRCReplyBot nickname = None def __init__(self, service): self.service = service def getUser(self, user): return self.service.getUser(user) components.registerAdapter(IRCClientFactoryFromService, IFingerService, IIRCClientFactory) class UserStatusTree(resource.Resource): def __init__(self, service): resource.Resource.__init__(self) self.service=service # add a specific child for the path "RPC2" self.putChild("RPC2", UserStatusXR(self.service)) # need to do this for resources at the root of the site self.putChild("", self) def _cb_render_GET(self, users, request): userOutput = ''.join(["<li><a href=\"%s\">%s</a></li>" % (user, user) for user in users]) request.write(""" <html><head><title>Users</title></head><body> <h1>Users</h1> <ul> %s </ul></body></html>""" % userOutput) request.finish() def render_GET(self, request): d = self.service.getUsers() d.addCallback(self._cb_render_GET, request) # signal that the rendering is not complete return server.NOT_DONE_YET def getChild(self, path, request): return UserStatus(user=path, service=self.service) components.registerAdapter(UserStatusTree, IFingerService, resource.IResource) class UserStatus(resource.Resource): def __init__(self, user, service): resource.Resource.__init__(self) self.user = user self.service = service def _cb_render_GET(self, status, request): request.write("""<html><head><title>%s</title></head> <body><h1>%s</h1> <p>%s</p> </body></html>""" % (self.user, self.user, status)) request.finish() def render_GET(self, request): d = self.service.getUser(self.user) d.addCallback(self._cb_render_GET, request) # signal that the rendering is not complete return server.NOT_DONE_YET class UserStatusXR(xmlrpc.XMLRPC): def __init__(self, service): xmlrpc.XMLRPC.__init__(self) self.service = service def xmlrpc_getUser(self, user): return self.service.getUser(user) def xmlrpc_getUsers(self): return self.service.getUsers() class IPerspectiveFinger(Interface): def remote_getUser(username): """ Return a user's status. """ def remote_getUsers(): """ Return a user's status. """ class PerspectiveFingerFromService(pb.Root): implements(IPerspectiveFinger) def __init__(self, service): self.service = service def remote_getUser(self, username): return self.service.getUser(username) def remote_getUsers(self): return self.service.getUsers() components.registerAdapter(PerspectiveFingerFromService, IFingerService, IPerspectiveFinger) class FingerService(service.Service): implements(IFingerService) def __init__(self, filename): self.filename = filename self.users = {} def _read(self): self.users.clear() for line in file(self.filename): user, status = line.split(':', 1) user = user.strip() status = status.strip() self.users[user] = status self.call = reactor.callLater(30, self._read) def getUser(self, user): return defer.succeed(self.users.get(user, "No such user")) def getUsers(self): return defer.succeed(self.users.keys()) def startService(self): self._read() service.Service.startService(self) def stopService(self): service.Service.stopService(self) self.call.cancel() application = service.Application('finger', uid=1, gid=1) f = FingerService('/etc/users') serviceCollection = service.IServiceCollection(application) f.setServiceParent(serviceCollection) internet.TCPServer(79, IFingerFactory(f) ).setServiceParent(serviceCollection) internet.TCPServer(8000, server.Site(resource.IResource(f)) ).setServiceParent(serviceCollection) i = IIRCClientFactory(f) i.nickname = 'fingerbot' internet.TCPClient('irc.freenode.org', 6667, i ).setServiceParent(serviceCollection) internet.TCPServer(8889, pb.PBServerFactory(IPerspectiveFinger(f)) ).setServiceParent(serviceCollection)

A simple client to test the perspective broker finger:

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# test the PB finger on port 8889 # this code is essentially the same as # the first example in howto/pb-usage from twisted.spread import pb from twisted.internet import reactor def gotObject(object): print "got object:", object object.callRemote("getUser","moshez").addCallback(gotData) # or # object.callRemote("getUsers").addCallback(gotData) def gotData(data): print 'server sent:', data reactor.stop() def gotNoObject(reason): print "no object:",reason reactor.stop() factory = pb.PBClientFactory() reactor.connectTCP("127.0.0.1",8889, factory) factory.getRootObject().addCallbacks(gotObject,gotNoObject) reactor.run()

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