This message is probably for Tv. I have a situation where the callback to a LDAPClient.send_multiResponse() call needs to do a bunch of work that I want to split up over several functions, using deferred chaining. What I want to do is something like this (this in conjunction with an LDAP proxy server I am writing using Twisted and ldaptor): d = self.client.send_multiResponse(request, got_response) then later: def got_response(response): # get a list of other things to do with the response d = do_stuff_with_response(response) d.addCallback(finish) return d def finish(response): # we're done return isinstance(response, ( pureldap.LDAPSearchResultDone, pureldap.LDAPBindResponse, )) However, this doesn't work, because the send_multiResponse() method of LDAPClient isn't expecting the handler to return a deferred, even though if I do return a deferred the reactor does handle it properly, chaining the deferreds and their callbacks. The problem is that in ldapclient.py, line 171, we have: # Return true to mark request as fully handled if handler(msg.value, *args, **kwargs): del self.onwire[msg.id] When handler() returns a deferred object, after the reactor processes the chain the value is a Deferred object, not True or False, even though the value of the deferred object may be True or False. Hence the del self.onwire[msg.id] always executes, which when dealing with search result entries is a problem as they all share the same id. I made a quick hack to fix this: ----------------------------------------------------------- --- /tmp/ldapclient.py 2008-05-03 18:53:26.000000000 -0600 +++ ldaptor/protocols/ldap/ldapclient.py 2008-05-03 18:58:07.000000000 -0600 @@ -168,7 +168,14 @@ assert args is not None assert kwargs is not None # Return true to mark request as fully handled - if handler(msg.value, *args, **kwargs): + result = handler(msg.value, *args, **kwargs) + + try: + result = result.result + except AttributeError: + pass + + if result: del self.onwire[msg.id] ##Bind ---------------------------------------------------------- Is this an acceptable way to do this?