Package commons :: Module servers

Module servers

Variety of classes, mixins, and functions for servers from low-level sockets to high-level XMLRPC. These are focused on enhancing the features of the SocketServer class hierarchy.

To Do: The documentation for this file is unfortunately a bit lacking toward the end.

Classes

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NullXmlRpcServer
XML RPC Server that handles nulls.

StoppableServerMixin
Mix-in class for SocketServers that checks periodically checks whether we should be exiting, and/or catches errors.

StreamServer
Base class for stoppable TCP stream servers.

ThreadingStreamServer
Generic TCP stream server that spawns a handler thread per request.

XmlRpcServer

MessageHandler
Handler for accepting and processing "messages." Messages are usually very short strings which require no response.

SocketStream
Tool for reading lines from a socket.

StreamClientSocket
Generic TCP stream client.

StopException

EndOfStream

StoppableRequestHandler

Functions

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spawn_server_thread(server)
Calls spawn_thread on the serve_forever method of a given server. source code

stoppable_socket(sock)

source code

Variables

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HIGHEST_PROTOCOL = 2

__package__ = 'commons'

compatible_formats = ['1.0', '1.1', '1.2', '1.3', '2.0']

format_version = '2.0'