[rabbitmq-discuss] Pika and multi-threading

Mon Mar 14 14:18:29 GMT 2011

On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Denis Conan <Denis.Conan at telecom-sudparis.eu> wrote:

> Le 22/02/2011 17:02, Gavin M. Roy a écrit :
>> 2011/2/22 Denis Conan<Denis.Conan at telecom-sudparis.eu>:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> The Pika Web site says: "Pika does not have any notion of threading in the
>>> code. If you want to use Pika with threading, make sure you have a Pika
>>> connection per thread, created in that thread. It is not safe to share one
>>> Pika connection across threads."
>>> 
>>> When using the continuation-passing style mode with SelectConnection, what
>>> about the singleton object IOLoop? I created a connection on the main thread
>>> for a vhost, and then a second connection for a different vhost in a new
>>> thread, but callbacks of the main threads for the first vhost are called. Am
>>> I missing something?
>> 
>> You're not, this is something I'm working through now. In essence,
>> there is a logical separation in the pika code between the core of how
>> pika does what it does and the connection adapters. The singleton
>> model for ioloops was a later addition that broke the model with
>> regard to threads. I have been working on fixing this to be thread
>> safe and will have something out soon on it.
>> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> has this issue been solved?

Yes it is addressed in the soon to be released 0.9.5 which is waiting on documentation updates and full regression testing on Rabbit 2.0 and higher. I am planning on tagging and pushing this release to pypi this week.
> 

Gavin