Mailman 3 July 2007 - Twisted

[Twisted-Python] Twisted server / MS .NET client
by Arye 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hello all, This seems more a .NET issue since the server runs fine and returns a correct SOAP envelope but I am still asking my question... We have a basic Twisted SOAP server with an "echo" method that simply returns it's argument. (Typically a string). A client written with SOAPpy communicates fine with this server. However a C# client in .NET seems unable to read the echoed string. Any ideas someone might have would be greatly appreciated. Arye.

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[Twisted-Python] FTP/VFS -- registerProducer error
by Kyle Johnson 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Modeling my code off the FTP server example (http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/attachment/ticket/1579/ftp_server_example.py), I coded my own FTPRealm class to use an inmem vfs instead of the local filesystem. I can browse and download data from it without issue, but anytime I attempt to upload a file, I get this error: File "twisted/protocols/ftp.py", line 421, in registerConsumer self._cons.registerProducer(self, True) exceptions.AttributeError: _FileToConsumerAdapter instance has no attribute 'registerProducer' I'm setting up the avatar with the line: avatar = FileSystemToIFTPShellAdaptor(pathutils.FileSystem(inmem.FakeDirectory())) Full code is available here: http://rafb.net/p/FgTbiP80.html Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[Twisted-Python] Flash AMF and Twisted
by Arnar Birgisson 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hi all, Re. this message: http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2007-May/015373.html Has any work been done here? I'm facing a project that requires two-way communication between a Flex/Apollo app and a Twisted server. In my initial tests I used http and comet-like techniques but I'm not sure they are the most efficient way. I'm willing to help with the project - I've already dabbled a little in the DjangoAMF stuff. Arnar

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[Twisted-Python] Weekly Bug Summary
by exarkun＠twistedmatrix.com 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Bug summary ______________________ Summary for 2007-07-08 through 2007-07-15 Bugs opened: 7 Bugs closed: 6 Total open bugs: 985 (+1) |== Type Changes |== Priority Changes |== Component Changes |Defect: +2 |Highest: -2 |Core: -1 |Enhancement: -1 |Normal: +6 |Foolscap: +2 |Task: +2 |Low: -1 |Web2: +1 |Website: +2 |Words: -1 New / Reopened Bugs ______________________ ===== Normal ===== [#2730] Documentation for CertificateOptions.__init__'s caCerts param mentions a non-existant caCertFile param. (opened by dreid) defect core http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2730 [#2731] foolscap: trivial fix (remove path separator) for test failing on windows (opened by strank) defect foolscap http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2731 [#2732] foolscap: find actual exception types in CopiedFailure (opened by strank) enhancement foolscap http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2732 [#2733] test the changes I just made to commit_bot et cetera (opened by exarkun) (CLOSED, fixed) task website http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2733 [#2734] Access control mechanism for web2 (opened by Tv) enhancement web2 http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2734 [#2733] test the changes I just made to commit_bot et cetera (opened by exarkun) (CLOSED, fixed) task website http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2733 [#2733] test the changes I just made to commit_bot et cetera (opened by exarkun) (CLOSED, fixed) task website http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2733 Closed Bugs ______________________ ===== Highest ===== [#2502] 'and' and 'or' operator suport for xpath (opened by jack, closed by ralphm, fixed) enhancement words http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2502 [#1840] clearly, unambiguously, and centrally document development procedures (opened by glyph, closed by glyph, fixed) enhancement core http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/1840 ===== Normal ===== [#2733] test the changes I just made to commit_bot et cetera (opened by exarkun, closed by exarkun, fixed) task website http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2733 [#2733] test the changes I just made to commit_bot et cetera (opened by exarkun, closed by exarkun, fixed) task website http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2733 [#2733] test the changes I just made to commit_bot et cetera (opened by exarkun, closed by exarkun, fixed) task website http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2733 ===== Low ===== [#2038] Make the pypy builder work (opened by jerub, closed by exarkun, invalid) enhancement core http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2038 Ticket Lifetime Stats ---------------------- Oldest open ticket - [#38] Should be a way to create documentation aliases (since 2003-07-12 16:08:03). Newest open ticket - [#2734] Access control mechanism for web2 (since 2007-07-11 17:03:21). Mean open ticket age: 487 days, 15:58:38.699575. Median: 373 days, 12:38:59.124956. Standard deviation: 391 days, 0:56:35.878258. Interquartile range: 477 days, 9:45:08. Mean time between ticket creation and ticket resolution: 119 days, 20:57:26.629088. Median: 14 days, 10:59:04. Standard deviation is 223 days, 11:04:36.097636. The interquartile range is 125 days, 12:17:18. Mean time spent in review: 58 days, 19:06:30.186814. Median: 4 days, 5:45:01. Standard deviation: 126 days, 6:10:02.052516. Interquartile range: 25 days, 23:46:15. Mean number of times a ticket is reviewed: 1.79586563307. Median: 1 Standard deviation: 1.38175017749. Interquartile range: 1.

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[Twisted-Python] logging and Unicode strings
by Manlio Perillo 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

It seems that it is not possibile to pass Unicode strings to the logging system. 2007/07/14 18:10 CEST [HTTPChannel,0,127.0.0.1] <unicode instance at -1254556832 with str error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twisted/python/reflect.py", line 463, in safe_str return str(o) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf2' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128) > Since I do not want to encode every string, I have changed safe_str: def safe_str(o): try: return str(o) except: if isinstance(o, unicode): import sys encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding() return o.encode(encoding, 'backslashreplace') strExc = '\n'.join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())) clsName = _determineClassName(o) obId = id(o) return '<%s instance at %s with str error %s>' % ( clsName, obId, strExc) Is this a feature or a bug? Thanks and regards Manlio Perillo

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[Twisted-Python] adbpi + mysql + utf8 codec
by Pavel Bastov 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Hi all, while checking my server logs I found a lot of messages like this: [Failure instance: Traceback: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 4-6: invalid data What might be the cause of this and how do I fix it? Thanks. -- Good luck, Pavel Bastov xooChat Evangelist and Team Leader http://www.xoochat.com/

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[Twisted-Python] Re: Perspective Broker with blocking, non-thread-safe C api?
by s. w. 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

>On 03:25 pm, ellisonbg.net(a)gmail.com wrote: > >The reason is that is you call a blocking C api in the thread, the > >Python interpreter will not be able to switch threads until the > >blocking C calls....unless the C code releases the Global Interpreter > >Lock. Thus you have two choices: >(1 and 2 snipped) > >The way we usually handle this is to make a separate process that > >manages a queue of commands to be executed on the server. Clients > >then connect to this manager, which in turns submits them to the > >actual PB server at the appropriate time. This is a pain, but it > >works extremely well. > >That sounds like a viable "third choice", and I have a fourth ;). > >Have the PB server itself spawn a subprocess (or multiple subprocesses!) >dedicated to this particular API. Then simply block in that (those) >subprocess(es), and return Deferreds from your PB methods that wait for >those requests to complete. > >That way the PB server remains self-contained and you don't add the >administrative overhead of setting up a separate server. > Thanks for all the great suggestions. Because of some restrictions imposed by the C api, I think I will try out the spawning of subprocesses. I don't suppose PB does IPC by any chance? :) Steve _________________________________________________________________ Need a brain boost? Recharge with a stimulating game. Play now! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=club_hotmailtextlink1

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[Twisted-Python] ESMTP Authentication
by kent brake 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Hi, I am trying to implement SMTP Auth using the twisted mail.esmtp class, but I can't seem to figure out the right methods needed. I've added a challenger to the ESMTP instance as a class: self.challengers = {'LOGIN': KPLAINCredentials()} But I can't seem to figure out what methods I need to implement in the KPLAINCredentials class. Does anyone have a snippet of code that implements LOGIN Auth that I could use for a reference or know the methods needed? I am very confused by this call chal = self.challengers.get(parts[0].upper(), lambda: None)() in esmtp.ext_Auth Thanks in advance for any advice. -Kent

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[Twisted-Python] conch command at a time
by Eli Criffield 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Does anyone have an example of an conch code that executes one command, process the results then executes another that maybe different based on the output of the first. And continues processing commands like that all in the same session. Almost like "expect". Thats a bit different then the conch script itself in that it just executes commands then sends you the output, and doesn't process it at all. Thats what I'm trying to accomplish, but i can't even find an example where i could set a list of commands to run, then kick off a ssh and execute the commands in order and return the results of all of them to store off somewhere. I'm not sure if using SSHSession or SSHUnixChannel would help to do this because they have no documentation on what they do or how to use them. Eli Criffield

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[Twisted-Python] Perspective Broker with blocking, non-thread-safe C api?
by s. w. 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

I'd like to use Perspective Broker to serve a set of objects remotely. However, these objects wrap a non-thread-safe, blocking C api. I'm new to Twisted, but I believe I understand correctly that the blocking C api needs to be accessed via threads in Twisted. Given this, the only way I can think to use Perspective Broker would be to use a special PBServerFactory/Protocol that limited the server to one connected client. For the use I would be putting the server to, this is maybe not as horrible as it sounds, but it is probably as ugly as it sounds. I'm hoping there's something in PB that I haven't come across that can solve this problem in a more elegant way. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve _________________________________________________________________ http://newlivehotmail.com

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