Browsers are asynchronous. You pretty much will have to get used to/learn to do things asynchronously.
You can probably cobble together some horrible hack to emulate synchronous programming in the browser but it will be just that, a hack and your UI will definitely freeze and probably be unusable. Basically the trick will be to figure out a way to make a function call block (and your entire application) while you continuously check if a response came.back. - lex On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:51 AM, João Ventura <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've searched for this subject and found some (rather old) emails, so I > haven't reached any conclusion about the possibility/interest of doing > synchronous json-rpc calls in Pyjs, ie, didn't understand if it is > possible or not. But i'll try to explain my case.. > > I'm converting a desktop application to pyjs, and it has an API. It is > an MVC app. Regarding the API, the logical decision was that everything > pure-python would go the the client, and C-extensions and modules which > needs to access information from files will go to the server. So, using > "jsonrpclib" I've abstracted my API enough that i just set a flag to > change some requests from local to jsonrpc. It is transparent to my app > from where the data comes from.. It is pretty cool! :) > > However, my problem is that only now I've found out that pyjamas doesn't > seem to handle synchronous jsonrpc calls. Or at least, the JsonRPC > example is based on async handling of jsonrpc calls. I've tried to > import jsonrpclib to pyjs but something needs to be fixed (or in pyjs or > in jsonrpclib, I still don't know). > > So, as I would like to maintain the synchronous aspect of my API in the > client (because it is already done that way, and I may use it in other > situations), I would ask if anyone knows something about this, i.e., > about doing synchronous jsonrpc calls in pyjamas? > > Basically, is synchronous jsonrpc available in pyjs (or in browsers)? > What are the downsides of it (does delays in response hang the browser > entirelly or just my app tab)? > > > Thanks, > João Ventura
