Sorry if this comes through twice. I already sent this once, before joining
the mailing list.
I'm attempting to use Backgroundrb to handle asynchronous pdf creation, but
in doing so, I've run into a very strange problem. Below is a method that's
called from the controller which creates a new worker, then grabs the worker
and calls the 'build_pdf' method asynchronously.
def make_pdf(template_path, worker_key)
with_empty_asset_id do
html_string = render_to_string(:template => template_path, :layout =>
'pdf')
key = MiddleMan.new_worker(:worker => :prince_xml_worker, :worker_key
=> worker_key)
MiddleMan.worker(:prince_xml_worker, key).async_build_pdf(:arg =>
html_string)
end
end
Then there's another method which polls the worker like so.
def ask_worker_status(worker_key)
MiddleMan.worker(:prince_xml_worker, worker_key).ask_result(:pdf)
end
It didn't seem to be working properly, so I started doing a little
debugging. Suddenly, it worked! So I removed my debugger statements and
tried again. It stopped working. I kept going back and forth like this,
trying differnet scenarios, poking at the workers, and checking their
results. Finally, I narrowed it down to one debugger statement in the
make_pdf method.
def make_pdf(template_path, worker_key)
with_empty_asset_id do
html_string = render_to_string(:template => template_path, :layout =>
'pdf')
key = MiddleMan.new_worker(:worker => :prince_xml_worker, :worker_key
=> worker_key)
worker = MiddleMan.worker(:prince_xml_worker, key)
>> debugger
worker.async_build_pdf(:arg => html_string)
end
end
When that debugger statement is in the code, everything works perfectly.
When it hits the debugger during the request, it doesn't matter whether I
poke around at a few objects, or just continue immediately. I even tried
replacing the 'debugger' with a 'sleep(1)' and everything worked perfectly.
When I removed the sleep call, no worky.
If I look at the backgroundrb_debug_11006 log, I see "Client disconnected"
each time the app polls the worker, and occasionally, I see this:
Packet::InvalidWorker
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_connection.rb:52:in
`ask_worker'
/Users/brent/near-time/near-time.net-exp-rescue-princexml-5504/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_worker.rb:123:in
`get_result_object'
/Users/brent/near-time/near-time.net-exp-rescue-princexml-5504/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_worker.rb:39:in
`receive_data'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_parser.rb:44:in
`extract'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_parser.rb:26:in
`loop'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_parser.rb:26:in
`extract'
/Users/brent/near-time/near-time.net-exp-rescue-princexml-5504/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_worker.rb:32:in
`receive_data'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:228:in
`read_external_socket'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:220:in
`handle_external_messages'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:194:in
`handle_read_event'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:190:in
`each'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:190:in
`handle_read_event'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:144:in
`start_reactor'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:137:in
`loop'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:137:in
`start_reactor'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.10/lib/packet/packet_master.rb:21:in
`run'
/Users/brent/near-time/near-time.net-exp-rescue-princexml-5504/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_proxy.rb:14:in
`initialize'
script/backgroundrb:46:in `new'
script/backgroundrb:46
This doesn't make much sense, and I'm at a loss. Does anybody have any clue
what might be going on here?
FYI - I'm on the latest (as of this morning) git version of backgroundrb.
thanks,
-Brent
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Brent Collier | www.acts-as-blogr.com
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