SimpleXMLRPCServer

[Jeremy Jones]

PhysicsGenius wrote:

> Jeremy Jones wrote:
>
>> Istvan Albert wrote:
>>
>>> Yannick Turgeon wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Simple". What are its limitations? 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No limitations whatsoever ...  it is "Simple" to use
>>>
>>> :-0
>>>
>>> Istvan.
>>>
>> Simple indeed.  I don't know for sure the reasons for naming it 
>> "Simple".  But it may have to do with the fact that the 
>> out-of-the-box SimpleXMLRPCServer will only handle one request at a 
>> time: a request comes in, the server accepts that request, blocking 
>> until the method call returns, and the response is sent back to the 
>> client.  It does not spawn a thread per request.  It does not 
>> "select" among multiple requests.  It will not create a thread pool 
>> for you.  If you want that added functionality, you can write a 
>> little custom code to get it to spawn a thread per request.  A little 
>> more code to only spawn n number of threads.  A little more code 
>> still to create a thread pool.  And if you want a server that 
>> "select"s among multiple requests, I'm not 100% sure, but I bet 
>> Twisted has one of those.
>
>
> I have a non-threaded, select()ing SimpleXML-RPC server.  I have 
> stressed it yet, but I have verified that the concept works.

Is this something that you wrote, or are you using Twisted?  If it's 
something you wrote, I'd love to see the code for it.

Jeremy