Mailman 3 February 2005 - Twisted-web

problems with data_XXX in formless templates
by Federico Di Gregorio 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hi, I am having some problems using nevow:data attributes inside a formless managed form. I want to extract some data from a database and show it at the beginning of the form and IMHO, nevow:data is the Right Way (TM) but unfortunately nevow tries to pass the current configurable as the 'data' parameter to my data_XXX methods and: nevow.accessors.NoAccessor: <MethodBinding submitted=Method at 0x4229164c> does not implement IContainer, and there is no registered adapter. Right now I am using a render_XXX method that does not suffer from the same problem but I find this limitation quite frustrating. Or, maybe, I am missing something (again :) federico -- Federico Di Gregorio http://people.initd.org/fog Debian GNU/Linux Developer fog(a)debian.org INIT.D Developer fog(a)initd.org Se consideri l'uso del software libero una concessione tu stesso, come potrai proporla agli altri? -- Nick Name

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Fwd: Re: [Ossri] data collection
by Ed Suominen 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Thought this might be of interest as a use case. --- Ed Suominen Registered Patent Agent Open-Source Software Author (yes, both...) Web Site: http://www.eepatents.com ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Ossri] data collection (WAS: dual-thread processors) Date: Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm From: Ed Suominen <general(a)eepatents.com> To: ossri(a)harvee.org Joe, that is a great idea! I could run the site, as my server is Python-based (using the Twisted/Nevow packages) and it very flexible. I've already got something running that involves registered users logging in and uploading and downloading binary files (PDFs of documents) to and from a MySQL database. Tying the binaries to user IDs and transcripted text would be very straightforward. I couldn't do much work in it for another month or so, though. On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:25 pm, Joe Phillips wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:05 -0500, Willie Walker wrote: > > To make Sphinx-4 really viable for > > desktop dictation, we'll need to get some better data than > > can be obtained from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). > > This, of course, could be something where the open source > > community can really shine - for the acoustic models, we just > > need hours and hours of transcribed audio (e.g., "a1.wav > > contains the words 'now is the time for all good people to > > come to the aid of sphinx'") > > I think the opensource community would be great for data generation. > > Can/will anyone setup a site to expedite data collection? Perhaps > this is where OSSRI can contribute? Say... upload a WAV, upload a > transcription and include some sort of web of trust where a > transcription isn't official until some other users approve it. > The website should at least document transcription style and format > for those of us who would like to contribute but cannot in some more > technical way. > > I for one would be happy to contribute recordings and transcriptions > of myself if I knew the data would be put to good use in sphinx. > > Willie, can you expand on what would be most useful to improving > sphinx? > > -joe _______________________________________________ Ossri mailing list Ossri(a)harvee.org http://harvee.org/mailman/listinfo/ossri -------------------------------------------------------

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Shutting down server via web-request with nice status page
by Maciej Szumocki 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hello, I have question about how does reactor.stop() work with Nevow. I have a simple web server (in twisted/nevow) that does something in background, and there's a page that's supposed to close the server gracefully. I would like the request to be served this way: - client sends the request (opens the page in browser) - he gets half-finished page with something like "Shutting down..." - server does some possibly time-confusing stuff then sends "Finished" completing the page - server stops I'm pretty new to both twisted and nevow, and this is what i've come up so far quickly. Surprisingly, it works to some extent, as in server does indeed stop, but i'm looking for a way to make it non-blocking, so other client who connect in the same time would get alternative page with "server closing down" message. class Terminate(rend.Page): """ Rendering this resource will stop the import process if it's running, then save current state and configuration and gracefully shutdown import server """ NAME = 'Terminating server' docFactory = loaders.stan( html[ head[page_title(NAME)], body[ main_header(NAME, url.root), ul(data = directive('execute'), render=directive("sequence"))[ li(pattern='item')[span(render=directive("string")), "... "], ], hr, h2['Server stopped'], ] ] ) def data_execute(self, context, data): if work.running(): yield "Stopping import process" work.stop() yield "Saving configuration" work.save() yield "Shutting down" work.terminate() yield "Done." work.terminate() simply calls reactor.stop() at the moment. work.stop() and work.save() are the parts of blocking code - i intentd to rewrite them to either work in thread or by using deferreds (assuming i manage to figure out how do deferreds work exactly ;) Could you please give me some ideas as to how should data_execute method look to achieve effect i want? Maciej Szumocki

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better PHP support
by Andrey Chichak 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Good day ! What about adding FCGI functionality into twisted, it will be better for migrating (or building dual twisted-php) servers. In CGI mode load is to high. One more : for PHP environment variable "DOCUMENT_ROOT" is often used - it means root of PHP project. I'm new in twisted and can't add this self. Maybe twisted community can help me? Andrey Chichak.

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Newov Login Forward
by noema 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

I think an answer to the following issue could be useful for many people: (1) When I have a login page resource like the one listed here how can I return another page than the root one? (2) How can I return a certain page resource depending on the username? hoping somebody knows that, #noema PS: Will post an article to the wiki if someone enlightens me class LoginPage(rend.Page): def __init__(self, name): rend.Page.__init__(self) self.name = name docFactory = loaders.stan( tags.html[ tags.head[tags.title["Not Logged In"]], tags.body[ tags.form(action=url.root.child(guard.LOGIN_AVATAR), method='post')[ tags.table[ tags.tr[ tags.td[ "Username:" ], tags.td[ tags.input(type='text',name='username') ], ], tags.tr[ tags.td[ "Password:" ], tags.td[ tags.input(type='password',name='password') ], ] ], tags.input(type='submit') ] ] ] )

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Problem running finger program
by M.N.A.Smadi 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

hi; i have installed twisted and i know it is working fine because i can run shtoom (which uses twisted). Am trying to use some of the classes to right my own program. I started with the finger tutorial. I downloaded the example from: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/howto/tutorial/listings/finger/f… then did twistd -ny finger11.py at the command line, the thing ran, but am not sure what is a good way to test it? I am fingering a user locally but that is always returning something regardless of the finger11.py program is running or not. Any hints please? thanks m. smadi

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Bugs in Nevow documentation
by Alexey Shamrin 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Hello! I am currently reading the new Nevow documentation in order to learn it. It's nice, thank you! Who is the author? I have found a typo there. Go to the nevow-traversal.txt, class Documentation example and look at the following line: fullpath = os.path.join(self, name) It must be: fullpath = os.path.join(self.directory, name) And I also want to mention the fact that there are lots of places in the docs where the author misses import statements. It must be pretty obvious where this places a, so I wouldn't list this places here... P.S. Is posting to this mailing list the right way to report the bugs? Is it required to prepare a diff? -- Best regards, Alexey.

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memory leaks
by Andrey Chichak 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Good day! I've partialy migrated my site from php to twisted-web and now under high load a memory size occupied by server raises from 12Mb to 130Mb during 1 day. I need help !!!! Andrey Chichak.

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Re: [Twisted-web] canvas without flash and optimization patches
by Stefano Debenedetti 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Donovan Preston wrote: > This is very amusing. It boggles my mind, really. The reason I used XML > for the Canvas RPC mechanism rather than plain text was because in > theory an XML parser written in C should exhibit better performance > than a text parser written in pure actionscript. In fact, all the other > work I had ever done with Flash used a plain old text format, and > switching to XML was supposed to be an optimization. The problem here is that you need quite a lot of non-native code to extract data from the pseudo-DOM that the XML parser returns while you need very little to make sense of an Array returned by the String.split method, which is written in C too. So String.split() (native) + myarray[n] (non-native) is likely to be faster than XML.parseXML() (native) + myxml.childNodes[n].firstChild.attributes.etcetc (non-native)... An optimization rule of thumb that is more effective in Flash than in other environments is: the less code you write, the faster it is, unfortunately this often makes for poorly readable code that tends to give too much for granted. > With a plain text format, there is the additional difficulty of > supporting nested structures (which is simple in XML). Some of the > encodings include dicts and lists. Choosing the right format for keeping the features while not losing speed will be a cool challenge, I hope I manage to dedicate some more time to it once I get to play with Canvas a little more, for today I am just happy to know I can rely on it as it won't necessarily crash my browser, shame on the linux version of the plugin anyway, it has always been sadly behind its Win/Mac counterparts in many ways. ciao ste

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Re: [Twisted-web] canvas without flash and optimization patches
by Stefano Debenedetti 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Steven Armstrong wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to use something like JSON [1] instead of XML? > Like that you may have the best of both worlds. Structured data and a > lighter format than xml. JS and Python work very nicely with it. > > [1] http://www.json.org At first glance, it seems not so easy because the eval function in Flash does not work like in Javascript: its parameter can only be "a string containing the name of a variable, property, object, or movie clip to retrieve" and not any arbitrary expression [1]. Of course you can do that yourself but then you would probably find out that Flash's native XML parser does a better job.. that would be interesting to find out... ciao ste [1] http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_diction…

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