[Web-SIG] PEP 444 (aka Web3)

[Marcel Hellkamp]

Am Donnerstag, den 16.09.2010, 22:58 +0200 schrieb Armin Ronacher:
> - The async part.
> If I can't find someone that is willing to provide some input on that
> I will remove that section.

I see a problem here: The response tuple must be returned synchronously
according to web3. Once returned, the values are final. If an
application needs to wait for some background task to finish in order to
decide about headers or the status code, it is now forced to block
completely.

A common use case for this is a web service that itself queries other
web services (e.g. an ajax proxy to work around "same origin policy").

With WSGI it was possible to yield empty strings as long as the
application is waiting for data and call start_response once the headers
are final. Not perfect, but at least non-blocking. Web3 removes this
possibility. The headers must be returned before the body iterable
yielded its first element, empty or not.

Removing any support for this type of asynchronism would render web3
useless for all but completely synchronous and trivial applications.
Even frameworks would have no way to work around this anymore.

I do understand that the start_response callable is inconvenient for
middleware to implement, but it totally made sense.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Marcel Hellkamp