That is excellent, Tony, thanks! I'll give that a go, look through the code, and hopefully that takes care of the routing and task-creation questions I had.
To be continued. On 30 May 2014 14:23, Tony Barbieri <great...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've used Celery pretty extensively at this point. We use it primarily > for running various tasks that users don't have permissions to run locally. > I basically wrapped it all up into a library that makes it super simple to > add new methods with optional tasks associated with them that offers both a > json-rpc interface running in a tornado server as well as direct celery > access. > > I only mention it's difficult to reverse-engineer because there is a lot > of indirection and dynamic inheritance going on in the internal code. > Celery also relies on a few different libraries that are written by the > same developer so you have to follow the order of operations through quite > a few places. The code is actually really interesting but takes awhile to > wrap your head around, and there is a lot of it. However, the public > facing API is quite nice and it's very well documented. I've found it to > be really nice to work with and it's also pretty robust at this point. > There have been quite a few years put into it with a ton of feedback and > it seems to be pretty widely used. > > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Marcus Ottosson <konstrukt...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Both. Tasks are to be scheduled via a chat-like interface. Humans send >> tasks via a terminal whereas workers build messages programmatically. >> >> For example, the command.. >> >> $ order coffee latte --no-milk >> >> ..should send a task to the swarm who will in turn delegate the task to >> workers capable of executing it. >> >> On the other hand, tasks can be delegated to a group of workers: >> >> $ peer barista order coffee latte --no-milk >> >> In which case the swarm will still distribute the task, but in this case >> to a pre-determined group of workers. Who also provide an interface to >> available services: >> >> $ peer barista --list-services >> >> Barista services: >> Take order (order) >> >> I’ve had a brief look at Celery, do you have any experience with it? How >> come it’d be difficult to reverse-engineer? Poor docs? Complicated >> behaviour? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> On 30 May 2014 13:57, Tony Barbieri <great...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Are you looking to write a chat like program or are you interested in >>> having tasks executed by workers on the other side of the "swarm"? Have >>> you looked at celery <http://www.celeryproject.org/>? It deals with >>> sending tasks to a broker, routing them using exchanges + queues and having >>> the tasks executed by workers and returning results through a promise. >>> It's very neat, but good luck trying to reverse engineer what's going on >>> in the code :). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Marcus Ottosson <konstrukt...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Something like this? >>>> >>>> >>>> https://github.com/abstractfactory/labs/blob/master/python/messaging/chat/swarm.py#L57 >>>> >>>> >>>> On 30 May 2014 13:04, Justin Israel <justinisr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> You could just register all your different endpoints or types in a >>>>> dict where the key is the type and the value is the handler function. And >>>>> each handler function could do the custom logic that transforms the >>>>> message >>>>> into a conformned message for the output. >>>>> On May 30, 2014 11:57 PM, "Marcus Ottosson" <konstrukt...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I’m developing an example program to illustrate the benefits and >>>>>> disadvantages of a service-oriented approach to task-distribution; >>>>>> mimicking the instant message-approach to routing messages from >>>>>> one-to-many >>>>>> via a central broker, it’s not quite at the point where pros and cons >>>>>> start >>>>>> showing their true colors, but getting there. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> First question - Routing multiple inputs to a single output >>>>>> >>>>>> peer.py represents a running client capable of making requests to >>>>>> the server, or swarm.py. Both peer.py and swarm.py handles incoming >>>>>> requests/replies via rather long-winded if/else methods: >>>>>> >>>>>> # Incoming messagesif type == 'letter': >>>>>> # do stuff >>>>>> elif type == 'service': >>>>>> # do stuff >>>>>> elif type == 'receipt': >>>>>> >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>> What would be a better/neater approach to routing multiple inputs to >>>>>> a single output, in cases where there’d be a large number (50+) of >>>>>> branches >>>>>> in logic? >>>>>> Go to method >>>>>> <https://github.com/abstractfactory/labs/tree/master/python/messaging/chat> >>>>>> >>>>>> Best, >>>>>> Marcus >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> *Marcus Ottosson* >>>>>> konstrukt...@gmail.com >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To view this 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