[TWISTED] Howto Deferred

marco marco at minasithil.org
Thu Jul 14 03:07:12 EDT 2011


Hello gals and guys,

I'm an experienced Python user and I'd like to begin playing with
Twisted.
I started RTFM the tutorial advised on the official site and I found it
really useful and well done.

Now I'd like to practice a bit by coding a little program that reads
strings from a serial device and redirects them remotely via TCP. For
that sake I'm trying to use deferred.

In the tutorial, a deferred class is instantiated at factory level, then
used and destroyed.

And here things get harder for me.
Now, in my test program I need to manage data which comes in a "random"
manner, and I thought about doing it in a few possible ways:

1. create a deferred at factory level and every time I read something
from the serial port add some callbacks:

class SerToTcpProtocol(Protocol):

  def dataReceived(self, data):
    # deferred is already instantiated and launched
    # self.factory.sendToTcp sends data to the TCP client
    self.factory.deferred.addCallback(self.factory.sendToTcp, data)

2. or, either, create a deferred at protocol level every time I receive
something, then let the deferred do what I need and destroy it:

class SerToTcpProtocol(Protocol):

  def dataReceived(self, data):
    d = defer.Deferred()
    d.addCallback(self.factory.sendToTcp, data)
    d.callback(data)

3. or again, use a deferred list:

class SerToTcpProtocol(Protocol):

  def dataReceived(self, data):
    d = defer.Deferred()
    d.addCallback(self.factory.sendToTcp, data)
    self.factory.listDeferred.addCallback(lambda d)
    d.callback(data)

Or I don't know.. hints are welcome.

Thank you in advance and sorry for my english.




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