[Moin-devel] deferred and macros

[Alexander Schremmer]

William Waites wrote on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:02 PM CEST:

> What I would like to be able to do is, running MoinMoin inside
> Twisted, write a macro that looks like this:
> 
> def execute(macro, args):
>     from twisted.internet import defer
>     return defer.succeed("Bonjour le monde!")

So what do you want to do exactly? You want to have a code object which gets
evaluated on page view?

> However having macros able to return deferreds is useful since
> it makes it possible to make many calls to the twisted framework
> from within MoinMoin. 

Which exactly?

> But it is difficult because right now the
> MoinMoin architecture expects calls like this to be synchronous

Between which events do you want your code to be asynchronous?

> So I'm not sure what my question is. 

I second that. ;-)

Kind regards,
Alexander