[rabbitmq-discuss] anyone using Twisted?

[Brian Granger]

> Yes, there are those of us using RabbitMQ with Twisted. Actually, on
> my present project, we're using it very heavily - it's great - and
> we've made a proper, working twisted protocol implementation for AMQP.
> I'm working with my employer on open sourcing this bit of code but
> it's unlikely to happen soon. If and when it does, I'll release it as
> either a patch to txamqp or as part of this project:
>  http://www.peloton-grid.net/

Fantastic.

> Some observations about txamqp:
> * it's very alpha and clearly incomplete
> * it's fundamentally misunderstood the way AMQP  routes of messages
> over separate channels. Deferred calls often don't fire since txamqp
> is waiting for the response on the wrong channel. Oops!
> * txamqp is multi-threaded. Tsk tsk, this is a no-no for twisted
> protocol handlers
> * QPID sucks. Badly, just look at the code.
> * QPID's autogeneration from the XML spec however is very cool
> * the txamqp unit tests are very good and quite easy to adapt to be
> made asynchronous

I haven't looked at txamqp enough to see these issues.  But yes,
because qpid uses threads, it won't mix well with Twisted.

> We've resolved these and other issues. In the end, it will help me
> open source the code to know the level of your interest in it. I'll
> announce any news on this list.

I would be very interested in see a robust Twisted+AMQP library.

Cheers,

Brian

> regards,
>
> /p
>
> PS: anyone else going to PyCon UK?
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