[Zope] How to create an ansynchronous method

[David Pratt]

Hi Chris. I downloaded ZASync and did a bit of reading and comparing 
between your Stepper product as well. ZASync at present relies on an 
older version of Twisted which is now I think into the 2 series so 
maybe later the products will come together this way. I think Stepper 
is really interesting.I think it would be a really good thing to see 
fire and forget with a process you create as a series of steps that can 
also be queued in one or more queues.

I also think there is some interesting possibility for something like a 
Zope instance Stepper where you could trigger a generic daemon to run a 
thread to process asynchronous tasks (steps) without a ZEO requirement. 
The asynchronous jobs could be queued for long running tasks outside of 
zope or timed to inject the step requests into zope for the maintenance 
of a zope instance (in the same vein as ClockServer) but in a single 
product.

Regards,
David

On Friday, September 23, 2005, at 05:33 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Just a note in passing to say that what you're really after in this 
> case is Gary Poster's ZASync. Gary's talked to me about getting 
> Stepper (which is basically batch processing triggered via cron using 
> a ZEO connection) to do the work of processing ZAsync's queue, which 
> would be cool, but I don't know if either of us has the need/time to 
> make that happen...