where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
witnessed in test_httpservers.
added the shutdown_request() which can perform shutdown before calling close. This is needed for the ForkingMixIn because different close semantics are required for child and parent process. shutdown_request(), for TCP servers, calls socket.shutdown() and then calls close_request(). Therefore, this is not an backwards incompatible change, since subclasses that continue to override close_request() continue to work.
close_request() (which can send a socket.shutdown()) must be called by the child process in a forking server. The parent must merely close the socket handle.
SocketServers. The core of the patch was written by Pedro Werneck, but any bugs
are mine. I've also rearranged the code for timeouts in order to avoid
interfering with the shutdown poll.
In DatagramRequestHandler.setup(), the wfile initialization should be
StringIO.StringIO(), not StringIO.StringIO(slf.packet).
Bugfix candidate (all the way back to Python 1.5.2 :-).
ThreadingMixIn/TCPServer forgets close (Max Neunhöffer).
This ensures that handle_error() and close_request() are called when
an error occurs in the thread.
(I am not applying the second chunk of the patch, which moved the
finish() call into the finally clause in BaseRequestHandler's __init__
method; that would be a semantic change that I cannot accept at this
point - the data would be sent even if the handler raised an
exception.)
Fix various serious problems:
- The ThreadingTCPServer class and its derived classes were completely
broken because the main thread would close the request before the
handler thread had time to look at it. This was introduced by
Ping's close_request() patch. The fix moves the close_request()
calls to after the handler has run to completion in the BaseServer
class and the ForkingMixIn class; when using the ThreadingMixIn,
closing the request is the handler's responsibility.
- The ForkingUDPServer class has always been been broken because the
socket was closed in the child before calling the handler. I fixed
this by simply not calling server_close() in the child at all.
- I cannot get the UnixDatagramServer class to work at all. The
recvfrom() call doesn't return a meaningful client address. I added
a comment to this effect. Maybe it works on other Unix versions.
- The __all__ variable was missing ThreadingMixIn and ForkingMixIn.
- Bumped __version__ to "0.4".
- Added a note about the test suite (to be checked in shortly).
added test script and expected output file as well
this closes patch 103297.
__all__ attributes will be added to other modules without first submitting
a patch, just adding the necessary line to the test script to verify
more-or-less correct implementation.
for SocketServer.py (inherited by TCPServer)
Luke wrote:
The socketserver code, with a little bit of tweaking, can be made
sufficiently general to service "requests" of any kind, not just by sockets.
The BaseServer class was created, for example, to poll a table in a MYSQL
database every 2 seconds. each entry in the table can be allocated a
Handler which deals with the entry.
With this patch, using BaseServer and ThreadedServer classes, the creation
of the server that reads and handles MySQL table entries instead of a
socket was utterly trivial: about 50 lines of python code.
You may consider this code to be utterly useless [why would anyone else
want to do anything like this???] - you are entitled to your opinion. if you
think so, then think of this: have you considered how to cleanly add SSL to
the TCPSocketServer? What about using shared memory as the
communications mechanism for a server, instead of sockets? What about
communication using files?
The SocketServer code is extremely good every useful. it's just that as it
stands, it is tied to sockets, which is not as useful.
I heartily approve of this idea.
Serhiy Storchaka
Martin Panter
Charles-François Natali
Kristján Valur Jónsson
Antoine Pitrou
Florent Xicluna
Ezio Melotti
Neil Schemenauer
Georg Brandl
Alexandre Vassalotti
Jeffrey Yasskin
Raymond Hettinger
Andrew M. Kuchling
Tim Peters
Collin Winter
Guido van Rossum
Barry Warsaw
Anthony Baxter
Fred Drake
Martin v. Löwis
Skip Montanaro
Ka-Ping Yee
Moshe Zadka