Known subclasses: twisted.mail.protocols.POP3Factory, twisted.mail.smtp.SMTPFactory, twisted.names.server.DNSServerFactory, twisted.news.news.NNTPFactory, twisted.protocols.ftp.FTPDataPortFactory, twisted.protocols.policies.LimitTotalConnectionsFactory, twisted.protocols.postfix.PostfixTCPMapDeferringDictServerFactory, twisted.protocols.postfix.PostfixTCPMapDictServerFactory, twisted.runner.inetd.InetdFactory, twisted.spread.pb.PBServerFactory, twisted.web.http.HTTPFactory, twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmlstream.XmlStreamServerFactory, twisted.words.service.IRCFactory

Subclass this to indicate that your protocol.Factory is only usable for servers.

Inherited from Factory:

Class Method forProtocol Create a factory for the given protocol.
Method logPrefix Describe this factory for log messages.
Method doStart Make sure startFactory is called.
Method doStop Make sure stopFactory is called.
Method startFactory This will be called before I begin listening on a Port or Connector.
Method stopFactory This will be called before I stop listening on all Ports/Connectors.
Method buildProtocol Create an instance of a subclass of Protocol.
API Documentation for Twisted, generated by pydoctor at 2017-09-23 19:45:03.