Comment 2 for bug 943452

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 943452] Re: Double submitting to callback?

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:30:42 -0000, Jonathan Lange <email address hidden> wrote:
> I don't think so. If you change the harness so that it doesn't shut
> down when it gets a response, you'll see that only one request is ever
> sent to it. I think the problem is that we are shutting down the service
> too early.
>
> >From #twisted.web on 2012-01-12:
>
> jml: When is Resource.render() called?
> exarkun: When a Resource is found to service a request
> jml: is the request fully received by that point?
> exarkun: Yes
> jml: OK, thanks.
> jml: I have a Resource locally that waits for one request and then shuts down the web server. However, the other end is reporting a connection refused after sending the request. I can't figure out what this second attempted connection is all about.
> exarkun: favicon? :)
> exarkun: You may also be shutting down the reactor such that the response is never sent, and some kind of retry logic in the client is kicking in.
> jml: exarkun: ooh, that last one might be it.
> jml: exarkun: is there an event I can hook into to ensure the response has been sent?
> exarkun: :(
> exarkun: not as far as I know
> jml: exarkun: how vexing.
> jml: I'm currently starting the shutdown on notifyFinish
> exarkun: Yea, you'd sorta expect that to be good enough.
> jml: I'll try a callLater to verify that this is indeed what's happening.
> jml: reactor.callLater(0, ...) to the rescue :(

That's the code we have right? So it seems that callLater isn't enough
to make sure that the response is sent before the reactor shuts down?

Thanks,

James