Twisted transport.write

Question

Is there any way to force self.transport.write(response) to write immediately to its connection so that the next call to self.transport.write(response) does not get buffered into the same call.

We have a client with legacy software we cannot amend, that reads for the 1st request and then starts reading again, and the problem I have is twisted joins the two writes together which breaks the client any ideas i have tried looking into deferreds but i don't think it will help in this case

Example:

self.transport.write("|123|") # amount of messages to follow 
a loop to generate next message
self.transport.write("|message 1 text here|")

Expected:

|123|
|message 1 text here|

Result:

|123||message 1 text here|

Answer 1

I was having a somewhat related problem using down level Python 2.6. The host I was talking to was expecting a single ACK character, and THEN a separate data buffer, and they all came at once. On top of this, it was a TLS connection. However, if you reference the socket DIRECTLY, you can invoke a sendall() as:

self.transport.write(Global.ACK)

to:

self.transport.getHandle().sendall(Global.ACK)

... and that should work. This does not seem to be a problem on Python 2.7 with Twisted on X86, just Python 2.6 on a SHEEVAPlug ARM processor.