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twisted deferred/callbacks and asynchronous execution

I'm trying to figure out how can i make my code more asynchronous using twisted.

  • A function returns a deferred object
  • then i add a list of callbacks
  • the first callback will be called after the deferred function provides some result through deferred_obj.callback
  • then, in the chain of callbacks, the first callback will do something with the data and call the second callback
  • and etc.

however chained callbacks will not be considered asynchronous because they're chained and the event loop will keep firing each one of them concurrently until there is no more, right?

However, if I have a deferred object, and I attach as its callback the deferred_obj.callback as in d.addCallback(deferred_obj.callback) then this will be considered asynchronous, because the deferred_obj is waiting for the data, and then the method that will pass the data is waiting on data as well, however once i d.callback 'd' object processes the data then it call deferred_obj.callback however since this object is deferred, unlike the case of chained callbacks, it will execute asynchronously... correct?

Assuming all of my code is non-blocking, this means that chained callbacks are NOT asynchronous while chained deferreds are, correct?

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mayotic Avatar asked Dec 27 '10 21:12

mayotic


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1 Answers

The callbacks are (by default) synchronous. However, as the Twisted doc points out:

If you need one Deferred to wait on another, all you need to do is return a Deferred from a method added to addCallbacks.

So you can use that to do some asynchronous processing in your callback chain. Let's do that:

from twisted.internet import reactor, defer

def callback_func_2(result, previous_data):
    # here we pass the result of the deferred down the callback chain
    # (done synchronously)
    print "calling function 1 on result:%s with previous result:%s" % (result, previous_data)
    return result

def callback_func(result):
    #let's do some asynchronous stuff in this callback
    # simple trick here is to return a deferred from a callback 
    # instead of the result itself.
    # 
    # so we can do asynchronous stuff here, 
    # like firing something 1 second later and have 
    # another method processing the result
    print "calling function 1 on result:%s" % result
    d = defer.Deferred()
    reactor.callLater(1, d.callback, "second callback")
    d.addCallback(callback_func_2, result)
    return d

def do():
    d = defer.Deferred()
    reactor.callLater(1, d.callback, "first callback")
    d.addCallback(callback_func)
    return d

do()
reactor.run()
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Tommy Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 17:09

Tommy