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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2014-07-11 21:47:40 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2014-07-11 21:47:40 (GMT)
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asyncio: improve the documentation of servers
- Fix the documentation of Server.close(): it closes sockets - Replace AbstractServer with Server - Document Server.sockets attribute
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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst27
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst21
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index c82ea48..993a5de 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -263,8 +263,9 @@ Creating listening connections
.. method:: BaseEventLoop.create_server(protocol_factory, host=None, port=None, \*, family=socket.AF_UNSPEC, flags=socket.AI_PASSIVE, sock=None, backlog=100, ssl=None, reuse_address=None)
- Create a TCP server bound to host and port. Return an
- :class:`AbstractServer` object which can be used to stop the service.
+ Create a TCP server bound to host and port. Return a :class:`Server` object,
+ its :attr:`~Server.sockets` attribute contains created sockets. Use the
+ :meth:`Server.close` method to stop the server: close listening sockets.
This method is a :ref:`coroutine <coroutine>`.
@@ -557,17 +558,31 @@ Debug mode
Server
------
-.. class:: AbstractServer
+.. class:: Server
- Abstract server returned by :func:`BaseEventLoop.create_server`.
+ Server listening on sockets.
+
+ Object created by the :meth:`BaseEventLoop.create_server` method and the
+ :func:`start_server` function. Don't instanciate the class directly.
.. method:: close()
- Stop serving. This leaves existing connections open.
+ Stop serving: close all sockets and set the :attr:`sockets` attribute to
+ ``None``.
+
+ The server is closed asynchonously, use the :meth:`wait_closed` coroutine
+ to wait until the server is closed.
.. method:: wait_closed()
- A :ref:`coroutine <coroutine>` to wait until service is closed.
+ Wait until the :meth:`close` method completes.
+
+ This method is a :ref:`coroutine <coroutine>`.
+
+ .. attribute:: sockets
+
+ List of :class:`socket.socket` objects the server is listening to, or
+ ``None`` if the server is closed.
Handle
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
index f6b126d..81bd7f0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
@@ -34,29 +34,26 @@ Stream functions
.. function:: start_server(client_connected_cb, host=None, port=None, \*, loop=None, limit=None, **kwds)
- Start a socket server, with a callback for each client connected.
+ Start a socket server, with a callback for each client connected. The return
+ value is the same as :meth:`~BaseEventLoop.create_server()`.
- The first parameter, *client_connected_cb*, takes two parameters:
+ The *client_connected_cb* parameter is called with two parameters:
*client_reader*, *client_writer*. *client_reader* is a
:class:`StreamReader` object, while *client_writer* is a
- :class:`StreamWriter` object. This parameter can either be a plain callback
- function or a :ref:`coroutine function <coroutine>`; if it is a coroutine
- function, it will be automatically wrapped in a future using the
- :meth:`BaseEventLoop.create_task` method.
+ :class:`StreamWriter` object. The *client_connected_cb* parameter can
+ either be a plain callback function or a :ref:`coroutine function
+ <coroutine>`; if it is a coroutine function, it will be automatically
+ wrapped in a future using the :meth:`BaseEventLoop.create_task` method.
The rest of the arguments are all the usual arguments to
:meth:`~BaseEventLoop.create_server()` except *protocol_factory*; most
- common are positional host and port, with various optional keyword arguments
- following. The return value is the same as
- :meth:`~BaseEventLoop.create_server()`.
+ common are positional *host* and *port*, with various optional keyword
+ arguments following.
Additional optional keyword arguments are *loop* (to set the event loop
instance to use) and *limit* (to set the buffer limit passed to the
:class:`StreamReader`).
- The return value is the same as :meth:`~BaseEventLoop.create_server()`, i.e.
- a :class:`AbstractServer` object which can be used to stop the service.
-
This function is a :ref:`coroutine <coroutine>`.
.. function:: open_unix_connection(path=None, \*, loop=None, limit=None, **kwds)