multiprocessing managers and socket connection.

[Chris]

On Aug 25, 9:11 pm, Terry <terry.yin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 25, 10:14 pm, Chris <chris... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've been using multiprocessing managers and I really like the
> > functionality.
>
> > I have a question about reconnecting to a manager. I have a situation
> > where I start on one machine (A) a manager that is listening and then
> > on another machine (B) connects to that manager and uses its proxy
> > object to call functions on the manager's computer; this all works as
> > expected. But, if the manager from A shuts down, B's application won't
> > notice because in the MP code it ignores socket error
> > errno.ECONNREFUSED. If A becomes available again or is restarted, B
> > doesn't automatically reconnect either and continue its operation.
> > It's function is basically stopped.
>
> > Here is the code from connection.py:
> > while 1:
> >         try:
> >             s.connect(address)
> >         except socket.error, e:
> >             if e.args[0] != errno.ECONNREFUSED: # connection refused
> >                 debug('failed to connect to address %s', address)
> >                 raise
> >             time.sleep(0.01)
> >         else:
> >             break
>
> > How can I have B automatically reconnect to A and continue its work
> > once A is available again?
>
> I think you need to retry repeatedly until successfully connected.
>
> br, Terry

I'm having issue after once connected. If the server goes down during
a long-running connection. I would want to be notified so I could try
to reconnect. I'm doing more experimenting now and will try to post an
example.