SimpleXMLRPCServer

[Jeremy Jones]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>    Jeremy> ... the out-of-the-box SimpleXMLRPCServer will only handle one
>    Jeremy> request at a time...  It does not spawn a thread per request.
>
>Nor should it.  Enabling threading in an application should be an active
>step taken by the programmer, not a passive step taken as a side effect of
>using a particular class that doesn't mention threading.  The simplest part
>of making a server threaded is mixing in SocketServer.ThreadingMixin.  Far
>more work needs to be done to make it robust.
>
>Now, should the SimpleXMLRPCServer module provide a threaded version?
>Perhaps.  The default should be non-threaded however.
>
>Skip
>  
>
I don't disagree at all.  The example that I got from somewhere that I 
still use as my base template to create a threaded XMLRPCServer is all 
of 6 lines of code.  It's trivial.  And that could probably be trimmed 
down a bit.


Jeremy