Twisted Network Programming Essentials by McKellar, Jessica -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Twisted Network Programming Essentials Foreword to the First Edition Preface

Why Use Twisted? What This Book Covers Conventions Used in This Book What You’ll Need Changes Since the Previous Edition Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

I. An Introduction to Twisted

1. Getting Started

Installing Twisted

Installation on Linux

More package options and optional dependencies

Installation on Windows

Optional dependencies Adding Twisted utilities to your PATH

Installation on OS X

Optional dependencies

Installing from Source

Required Dependencies

Installing a C compiler Installing zope.interface

Installing Twisted from a Release Tarball Installing Twisted from a Source Checkout Installing Optional Dependencies from Source

Testing Your Installation Using the Twisted Documentation

API Documentation Subproject Documentation

Finding Answers to Your Questions

Mailing Lists IRC Channels Stack Overflow Twisted Blogs

2. Building Basic Clients and Servers

A TCP Echo Server and Client Event-Driven Programming The Reactor Transports Protocols

Protocol Factories Decoupling Transports and Protocols

A TCP Quote Server and Client Protocol State Machines More Practice and Next Steps

3. Writing Asynchronous Code with Deferreds

What Deferreds Do and Don’t Do The Structure of a Deferred Object Callback Chains and Using Deferreds in the Reactor Practice: What Do These Deferred Chains Do?

Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6

The Truth About addCallbacks

Exercise 7 Exercise 8

Key Facts About Deferreds Summary of the Deferred API More Practice and Next Steps

4. Web Servers

Responding to HTTP Requests: A Low-Level Review

The Structure of an HTTP Request Parsing HTTP Requests

Handling GET Requests

Serving Static Content

Static URL dispatch

Serving Dynamic Content Dynamic Dispatch

Creating resources that are both renderable and have children Redirects

Handling POST Requests

A Minimal POST Example

Asynchronous Responses More Practice and Next Steps

5. Web Clients

Basic HTTP Resource Retrieval

Printing a Web Resource Downloading a Web Resource

Agent

Requesting Resources with Agent Retrieving Response Metadata POSTing Data with Agent

More Practice and Next Steps

II. Building Production-Grade Twisted Services

6. Deploying Twisted Applications

The Twisted Application Infrastructure

Services Applications TAC Files twistd Plugins

More twistd Examples More Practice and Next Steps

Suggested Exercises

7. Logging

Basic In-Application Logging twistd Logging Custom Loggers Key Facts and Caveats About Logging

8. Databases

Nonblocking Database Queries More Practice and Next Steps

9. Authentication

The Components of Twisted Cred Twisted Cred: An Example Credentials Checkers Authentication in Twisted Applications More Practice and Next Steps

10. Threads and Subprocesses

Threads Subprocesses

Running a Subprocess and Getting the Result Custom Process Protocols

More Practice and Next Steps

11. Testing

Writing and Running Twisted Unit Tests with Trial Testing Protocols Tests and the Reactor

Testing Deferreds Testing the Passage of Time

More Practice and Next Steps

III. More Protocols and More Practice

12. Twisted Words

IRC Clients IRC Servers More Practice and Next Steps

13. Twisted Mail

SMTP Clients and Servers

The SMTP Protocol Sending Emails Using SMTP SMTP Servers Storing Mail

IMAP Clients and Servers

IMAP Servers IMAP Clients

POP3 Clients and Servers

POP3 Servers

More Practice and Next Steps

14. SSH

SSH Servers

A Basic SSH Server

Using Public Keys for Authentication Providing an Administrative Python Shell Running Commands on a Remote Server

SSH Clients

More Practice and Next Steps

15. The End

Contributing to Twisted

Index About the Authors Colophon Copyright

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