Thanks. My confusion is just in the naming of things...
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:09 PM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On 02:38 am, elihusma...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:39 PM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 04:10 am, elihusma...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring >>>> <ita...@itamarst.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Greetings, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am new to this list and twisted. I have worked with some systems >>>>>> similar to twisted, notably Apache MINA. I am trying to find out how >>>>>> to set up my server to support sessions for multiple clients. Right >>>>>> now I am simply developing a telnet-like application to learn twisted >>>>>> but cannot figure out how to manage sessions for the remote clients. >>>>> >>>>> Each Protocol instance stays alive for the lifetime of the connection >>>>> it >>>>> is matched to (via the transport). So just store attributes on the >>>>> Protocol instance. >>>> >>>> I figured as much that twisted supported the notion of sessions. Are >>>> there any examples that show me how to access them and >>>> add/remove/update attributes in the session? >>> >>> Protocol instances are normal Python objects. You can use normal Python >>> attributes on them in the normal way. For example: >>> >>> from twisted.internet.protocol import Protocol >>> >>> class Counter(Protocol): >>> """ >>> Keep track of how many times data is delivered over a connection. >>> """ >>> def connectionMade(self): >>> self.count = 0 >>> >>> def dataReceived(self, bytes): >>> self.count += 1 >> >> Thanks for the help, but how do I access the session? What would be >> the method call to put the data into a session for instance? > > The protocol instance *is* the session (or, as I would normally say "the > protocol instance has a one to one relationship with a connection", but I > think that's what you mean when you say "the session"). You can define > whichever methods and attributes you want. > > It's a regular Python object. All the regular stuff you know about Python > objects applies. > > Jean-Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > > _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
