On Aug 31, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Shuai Lin <linshuai2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > My server mainly consists of two modules: > -- http api handling (using twisted) > -- backend blocking tasks > > The backend tasks have to block, because I have to call some third-party > API, which is always blocking. What's more, since the third-party api call is > blocking, I plan to use a thread pool to implement a connection pool. > > My question is: Is it ok to use twisted in this manner? i.e. I just run > `reactor.run()' in the main thread (to handle the http api request), and the > rest of the program is blocking -- and intrinsically not related to twisted. > > Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks! Sure, this is fine. This is why the reactor has callInThread() after all :). It may also make sense to use something like Ampoule <https://launchpad.net/ampoule> if the backend tasks are CPU intensive as well, and you want multi-core parallelism. -glyph _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
