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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <herd>python</herd> |
| <longdescription> |
| This is a ground-up rewrite of Perspective Broker, which itself is Twisted's |
| native RPC/RMI protocol (Remote Procedure Call / Remote Method Invocation). |
| If you have control of both ends of the wire, and are thus not constrained to |
| use some other protocol like HTTP/XMLRPC/CORBA/etc, you might consider using |
| Foolscap. |
| |
| Fundamentally, Foolscap allows you to make a python object in one process |
| available to code in other processes, which means you can invoke its methods |
| remotely. This includes a data serialization layer to convey the object |
| graphs for the arguments and the eventual response, and an object reference |
| system to keep track of which objects you are connecting to. It uses a |
| capability-based security model, such that once you create a non-public |
| object, it is only accessible to clients to whom you've given the |
| (unguessable) FURL. You can of course publish world-visible objects that |
| have well-known FURLs. |
| </longdescription> |
| <upstream> |
| <remote-id type="pypi">foolscap</remote-id> |
| </upstream> |
| </pkgmetadata> |