On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 05:27:42PM -0700, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: > On 5/4/07, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I have a pylons app which I want to spawn a long-running process > > from. While this process is running (might be an hour or so), I want > > the page that kicked off this process to just display status (maybe > > referesh ever 30 seconds or so)... Does anyone have some pointers on > > how this should be done or what packages I should be looking into? > > I've done this before, but not in Pylons. Spawning a long running > process or thread is fine. Watch out for Paste because I think Ian > put in some code to watch for runaway threads--it's probably fine. > Use a timer and AJAX to have the Web page poll the server to see if > the work is done. (You could use Comet, but polling is probably fine. > Ignore this statement if you don't know what I'm talking about.) In > the best case, you can use a progress bar on the page. Just work your > way through it; I'm sure you'll be fine.
Any recommendations on passing status between the worker thread and the controller when it's polling? I tried just using class variables, but they don't seem to get updated between the threads... thx m -- Matt Billenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vazor.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
