On 21 February 2011 07:00, Jason Heeris <jason.hee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 February 2011 14:50, Michael Thompson <michae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This might be better expressed as how do you write a protocol to >> handle errors when using an unreliable transport. It down to your >> protocol as to how you need to handle errors by for instance sending a >> NACK or re-transmitting a request. > > And what if that fails? Or times out? If this is part of a user driven > app, shouldn't the user be notified of an error at some point? What > I'm asking is: how do I communicate the failure of a protocol back to > the rest of the app?
The app should be waiting on the result of a deferred (which it expects to fire with the result of the serial comms) so you can simply errback that deferred. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
