[Web-SIG] A 'shutdown' function in WSGI

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin at exyr.org> wrote:

> Le 21/02/2012 08:47, Tarek Ziadé a écrit :
>
>  Yes, I also think shutting down the server is completely orthogonal to
>> requests.
>>
>
> If the shutdown callback is next to the application and not registered in
> a request, why not also have the symmetric "server start up" callback that
> would not wait for a request? This would avoid workarounds like
> Flask.before_first_request.
>
> Both of these callbacks could be called once per process (aka. space where
> requests share memory.)
>
>
Fair point,


> Instead of having to provide two or three objects separately to a server,
> how about making the callbacks attributes of the application callable?
>

can you show us an example ?



> Regards,
> --
> Simon Sapin
>



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Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org
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