[Zope] How to create an ansynchronous method

[Chris Withers]

David Pratt wrote:
> really interesting.I think it would be a really good thing to see fire 
> and forget with a process you create as a series of steps that can also 
> be queued in one or more queues.

Well, I think ZAsync would be great for building and managing the 
queues, with Stepper steps being used to process them...

> I also think there is some interesting possibility for something like a 
> Zope instance Stepper where you could trigger a generic daemon to run a 
> thread to process asynchronous tasks (steps) without a ZEO requirement. 

Huh? That made no sense. Spawning new ZServer threads is evil, I like 
the fact that Stepper keeps it simple and connects to a ZEO server. It 
means Stepper can be run from any normal Zope client build and doesn't 
need to do anything funky.

> The asynchronous jobs could be queued for long running tasks outside of 
> zope or timed to inject the step requests into zope for the maintenance 
> of a zope instance (in the same vein as ClockServer) but in a single 
> product.

I think a combination of Stepper and ZAsync could meet your needs, when 
you hit specific problems which you need help with, let me or Gary know :-)

cheers,

Chris

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