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Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Ken Seehart wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The practical constraints of my specific application are:
1. The rpc server is a highly specialized slave system that does heavy duty
work.
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<pre wrap="">2. The rpc client is itself a web server that dispatches work requests to the
rpc server(s) and displays the >current status of work done so far.
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<pre wrap="">3. The generators will typically run for a long time (hours) and yield data
periodically (perhaps once a minute).
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If this "yield" can be made to be, or if it is, supply side driven, instead of
yielding on demand like a
generator, then I would set up a simple TCP/IP peer to peer socket link and just
send the result
back when it is ready. If you have to "serve" more than one such link, it is a
simple matter
to keep a list of queues linking the different socket sets to the "generator",
and to iterate over
the list, putting a copy of the thing that was just produced into each queue.
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<pre wrap="">Of course, the thing you want to pass back must be serializable.
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It is supply side driven, and the content would be serializable. The
only reason I want something high<br>
level like xmlrpc or Pyro instead of rolling my own stuff with TCP/IP
is that I want the client and server to be<br>
easily customizable.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Have you looked at Pyro?
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Not yet. Looking at it now. Thanks, it looks like Pyro may be very
relevant.<br>
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Ken<br>
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