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author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2014-07-11 21:47:40 (GMT) |
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committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2014-07-11 21:47:40 (GMT) |
commit | 8ebeb03740dad4d9edd65de88f82840a05070941 (patch) | |
tree | 6c77cc790d68d27fc85d41ed41991271db2d4ea1 /Doc | |
parent | b28dbac86d3c8ccde7d16c4f2de471eb53a6bffe (diff) | |
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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.rst | 27 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst | 21 |
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) |