On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:34:24PM -0500, Phil Christensen wrote:

i want to be able to continually prompt the user for a string that gets sent to a "parse" method on the remote object. i'm not exactly sure the right way to do this. do I just add a callback to the deferred returned by call remote?

here's my code so far:

def main(): config = Options() if(config['login'] == None): config['login'] = getpass.getuser() passwd = getpass.getpass("%s@%s's password: " % (config['login'], config['host']))

client = TextClient() factory = pb.PBClientFactory() reactor.connectTCP(config['host'], int(config['port']), factory) defer = factory.login(credentials.UsernamePassword(config['login'], passwd), client) defer.addCallback(connected) reactor.run()

def connected(perspective): command = raw_input("> "); defer = perspective.callRemote("parse", command) defer.addCallback(connected)

Calling raw_input is a bad idea. It will block. You should either use twisted.internet.stdio (which is probably more work than you care to do -- but see doc/examples/cursesclient.py for an example that uses stdio and curses to make a simple irc client), or run raw_input in a thread: from twisted.internet import threads def connected(perspective): deferred = threads.deferToThread(raw_input, "> ") deferred.addCallback(lambda cmd: perspective.callRemote("parse", cmd)) deferred.addCallback(lambda res: connected(perspective)) Note that perspective.callRemote will return a Deferred -- but that's ok, the Deferreds automatically cope with (i.e. wait for) deferred results from callbacks :) Something else to notice is that Deferreds pass the result of the previous callback (or the original result, for the first callback) to each callback, which is why I wrote: deferred.addCallback(lambda res: connected(perspective)) rather than your: defer.addCallback(connected) -Andrew.