Are you using an http-based server? http doesn't support one-way messages,
so oneway thrift calls always wait for the (empty) http response.
--David
On 03/17/2011 01:30 PM, Souvik Roy wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Bryan. I did search JIRA, but no such bugs have been
> reported yet.
> I took a closer look into the functionality and found out something which I
> wasn't expecting.
> It seems as though subsequent "oneway" calls block each other and happen in
> a synchronized fashion - the first call does happen asynchronously and out
> of order though !
> Consider the following code (based on the previous code snippet);
>
> //Server snippet
> *public function test($test_bigint){
> echo 'before sleep '. $test_bigint;
> sleep(10);
> echo 'after sleep '. $test_bigint;
> }*
>
> If I call the above as:
> *echo "Start";
> $client->test(1);
> echo "Done";
> $client->test(2);*
>
> The output of the above is:
> *Start
> Done
> before sleep1
> after sleep1
> before sleep2
> after sleep2*
>
> I wonder if this was "meant to be" this way? All I'm trying is to execute a
> method multiple times, in parallel. This can be achieved with threads in
> other languages, but I was wondering if "oneway" methods can help me in PHP
> here.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Bryan Duxbury <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sounds like a bug to me. I'm not aware of any existing issue, but you
> might
>> want to do a search in our JIRA.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Souvik Roy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I'm aware that PHP doesn't have threading support yet, hence a
>>> MultiThreaded thrift server is not possible with Thrift in PHP
>>> (right?). But I was under an impression than "oneway" asynchronous
>>> functions do work with Thrift - PHP:server. But that doesn't seem to
>>> be the case. To reproduce it, I wrote a small function defined as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>> //Server snippet
>>> public function test($test_bigint){
>>> echo 'before sleep '. $test_bigint;
>>> sleep(10);
>>> echo 'after sleep '. $test_bigint;
>>> }
>>>
>>> //Client snippet
>>> for($i=0;$i<10;$i++){
>>> $client->test($i);
>>> }
>>>
>>> //Thrift IDL
>>> service someservice{
>>> oneway void test(1:i64 test_bigint)
>>> }
>>>
>>> Ideally, the above should be executed asynchronously and should not
>>> wait for the function to finish execution (and print "before sleep"$i
>>> all through the iterated times at first). But the actual output waits
>>> for sleep(10) and is executed synchronously.
>>> Is this a known feature Bug? If this topic has been already discussed
>>> earlier, can anyone please point me to the thread URL ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> --
>>> Souvik Roy
>>> http://www.souvikroy.com
>>>
>>
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