There has been an ongoing discussion between the WSGI developers and Twisted about how to be more compatible. The upshot is that asynchronous servers need some kind of token in the output stream that means "I'm not ready; come back later." Other middlewares would have to pass this token through unchanged. And of course, the application would have to use non-blocking libraries such as non-blocking database executors. I'm not sure if ordinary file access is "blocking" enough to require that too.
The upshot has been that Twisted runs WSGI applications in a thread anyway because it can't be sure they won't block. And there hasn't been enough interest from WSGI developers to actually pursue using it with asynchronous servers. I think Python has a future object now which standardizes Twisted's Deferred and the equivalent in other asynchronous servers. So that's a start. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Vlad K. <v...@haronmedia.com> wrote: > > Speaking of asynchronous... what is the future of WSGI regarding > asynchronous serving? With websockets (or whatever the standard will emerge > out of it) coming fully supported in the next generation of browsers (what, > within a year? two?), is this even a possibility for WSGI and with that > Pyramid? Returning iterators as response objects? Gevent integration? > > > .oO V Oo. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en. > > -- Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en.
