I do not seem an immediate problem except the fact that a thread
started by the web server starts another thread and it may get killed
for long running tasks. I suggest you look into the admin/controller/
shell.py
Massimo
On Apr 14, 8:23 pm, Paul Wray <paul.w...@det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Hello
> I would like to make some administative build/test tasks for a web2py
> application available via the web interface, with the output presented
> to the html page in real time, like console output.
>
> The code below seems to work reasonably well, but is this sort of
> thing recommended/safe? Is there a better way?
> I am running windows.
>
> import time
> import threading
>
> class my_thread(threading.Thread):
> def __init__(self, file):
> self.file = file
> threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>
> def run(self):
> self.file.write('<html><body>')
> # test streamed html output
> for i in range(10):
> self.file.flush()
> time.sleep(1) # simulate long-running process
> # pad lines to be more than a chunk
> self.file.write('<p>%100d </p>' % (i,))
> self.file.write('</body></html>')
> self.file.close()
>
> def my_controller():
>
> (rh, wh) = os.pipe()
> r = os.fdopen(rh, 'r')
> w = os.fdopen(wh, 'w')
> response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/html'
>
> my_thread(w).start()
> return response.stream(r, 50) # set chunk size to something
> small
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