On Sep 16, 2010, at 2:34 AM, James Mills wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote:
Thank you for the work, Chris. >> We can ditch everything concerning web3.async as far as I'm concerned. >> Ian has told me that this feature won't be liked by the async people >> anyway, as it doesnt have a trigger mechanism. > > You and Ian are right about that. I don't see the point of introducing > an "async" property/variable into the environment data. I've been hoping for something like web3.async. When I saw it in the spec, I didn't see it as a way to support asynchronous applications generally. I suspect that fully async applications are just not really ultimately interested in a wsgi/web3 world--the threaded model is too different. I'd love to be wrong. (To be clear, happily some async frameworks *are* interested in being wsgi servers.) In any case, I saw it as a way for web3 threaded applications to support long polls, from JS or some other client. Threaded applications might authenticate and do X work, and then pass off some work significantly more appropriate for an async server back to the web3 server. That work might be proxying a file found elsewhere on an internal network; or waiting for a response from an asynchronous job in this process (Twisted) or some other one (RabbitMQ); or other similar tasks. Meanwhile, the threaded application could go off and handle more requests, having done what was needed of it. Periodically polling the callable wasn't what I was thinking of--I had the Twisted world in mind, so I was thinking more of a Deferred type model--but polling would be good enough for my needs. I'd like to see it, or something like it. If not, I suspect I'll be trying to hack something like this in somehow, because it addresses concerns we've had at Launchpad in recent planning sessions. I'd *much* prefer to have a supported, clean approach. Gary _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
