Re: GSOC idea: Plone tool to run long-running scripts in background

Le 01/04/11 10:55, Suresh V. a écrit :
> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Suresh V.<suresh_vv@...>  wrote:
>>> Is plone.app.async planned to be included with Plone pretty soon?
>>
>> Depends on your definition of soon. I think it makes sense to include
>> it at some stage, once it has been used in production by more
>> companies and has proven itself. If that means Plone 4.2, 4.3 or later
>> isn't clear.
>>
>>> I looked at this but was put off by the fact that it needed a ZEO like
>>> setup and won't work in a single process configuration. Would be nice to
>>> have a solution that would work regardless.
>>
>> If you have only a single application process to do the work for you,
>> there's little point in deferring work to "later". Either the person
>> requesting the job will have to wait, or somebody else will have to
>> wait when the job executes.
>
> Disagree. If the user's request does not block for a long period and
> does not result in a browser or proxy server timeout, it is still a big
> improvement over the status quo. And since multiple threads are
> available, we should be able to do this without blocking the user.
>
> Am working on a prototype. Will let you know how it goes.
>
> Suresh

You can also take a look at five.taskqueue. Port to Zope2 of 
lovely.remotetask

We run it in production for a few months now.

http://zope3.pov.lt/trac/browser/Sandbox/gotcha/five.taskqueue/trunk

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