On Dec 22, 2:49 am, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a client that needs to constantly send data to Django-based > backend. The client code follows the pattern: > > ... > s = socket.socket( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM ) > s.connect( ( '10.20.30.40', 8080 ) ) > while True : > data = s.recv( 2048 ) > print data > > s.send( r'something' ) > ... > > Could you advice on possible approaches to come up with a Django > implementation of a backend that can work with such client, please?
Hello, Since django is a web framework, the requests that it can handle need to be http-based. I don't think that a django view can listen directly on a TCP socket (the web server is doing the listening , not the django itself ) . However, i'm sure that there are workarounds possible. It all depends on what are your specific needs : - if you are now writing the client from scratch, you can wrap the binary data in a XML-RPC request. And you can write a django view to handle the XML-RPC request. If you are free to choose the data format you can send the data as dictionaries/hashes (much easier to handle than parsing binary data ). - if the TCP client is an already existing program that can't be changed, you can write a python program that listens on a TCP port and then forwards the data to the django application using XML-RPC . I'm mentioning XML-RPC because i've used it lately and i'm somewhat accustomed to it. Perhaps other can suggest more solutions that you could try. Cheers, Adrian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
