[Zope-dev] WebSockets API

Adam GROSZER agroszer.ll at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 09:07:03 UTC 2012


On 11/27/2012 09:04 AM, Wolfgang Schnerring wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Alex Leach <albl500 at york.ac.uk> [2012-11-25 20:00]:
>> I was wondering if anyone has implemented a WebSockets server API using the
>> zope toolkit? I've just submitted a blueprint on Launchpad
>> (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/zopetoolkit-project/+spec/websockets-api),
>> but thought it might be quicker and easier to discuss how one could do this
>> here.
>
> I'm not too familiar with WebSocket internals, but one thing that stuck
> with me is that you'll need to keep *lots* of open connections, which is
> only feasible with an eventloop-based server (which zope.server, for
> one, isn't).
>
> Apart from that, I'm not sure what features remain, and where a proper
> home in the ZTK world would be.
>
> At our company we've scheduled a project to integrate WebSockets into a large
> Zope3-based application for early next year, so we'll definitely will be
> doing *something* in that space -- we just don't know what, yet. ;)
>
> What functionality did you have in mind that the ZTK might grow?
>
> Wolfgang
>

Some investigations and trials showed about half a year ago that a 
Autobahn + Twisted + pyramid combination worked.

YMMV

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  Adam GROSZER
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