SimpleXMLRPCServer interruptable?

[Bret]

I just tried changing this so that I now have a threading.Event()
called self.done, which is set within the body of the shutdown()
method.  The serverWrapper loop now looks like this:

def serverWrapper():
    while True:
        server.handle_request()
        if self.done.isSet():
            break

This works, but only if I follow the shutdown() rpc call a few seconds
later with ... something else to cause handle_request() to complete
again.  Obviously, not quite the right approach....


On Dec 5, 2:00 pm, Bret <bret.wort... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm coming back to Python after an absence and it's surprising how
> many things I've forgotten since wandering (against my will) into Java
> land.
>
> Anyway, I have a need for a way to make SimpleXMLRPCServer
> interruptable.  Basically, I have a main server that, in response to
> certain RPC calls, creates additional servers on different ports.  I
> then need to be able to shut these additional servers down.
>
> I've got something like this in the __init__ of the class which
> contains the spawned servers:
>
> def __init__(self, host, port):
>     :
>     :
>     server = SimpleXMLRPCServer((host, port))
>     :
>     : Bunch of server.register_function calls
>     :
>     def serverWrapper():
>         try:
>             while True:
>                 server.handle_request()
>         except:
>             pass
>
> One of the methods that I register is:
>
> def shutdown(self):
>     raise "Quitting time"
>
> Through watching logs and such I can see that the shutdown() method is
> getting called, but the loop isn't getting broken.  I've done
> something like this before in a previous job (so I don't have my
> source in front of me, more's the pity) and am hoping someone can
> chime in with a good idea.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Bret Wortman