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multiprocessing.reduction socket server with parent processing passing connections to client after accepting connections
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
@author Sunil Mallya
Sample code to show a parent - child like process communication model where parent listens on a port and passes the pickled file descriptor
to the child process to read the bytes off the socket. The communication in this snippet is via a Queue which is thread/process safe
Just to be clear, the parent process is still accepting the connection and we are sending a live fd to the child
"""
import os
import sys
import SocketServer
import Queue
import time
import socket
import multiprocessing
from multiprocessing.reduction import reduce_handle
from multiprocessing.reduction import rebuild_handle
#Refer for more multiprocessing info http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html
class MultiprocessWorker(multiprocessing.Process):
def __init__(self, sq):
self.SLEEP_INTERVAL = 1
# base class initialization
multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self)
# job management stuff
self.socket_queue = sq
self.kill_received = False
def run(self):
while not self.kill_received:
try:
#If you used pipe, then recieve as below
#h=pipe.recv()
#else dequeue
h = self.socket_queue.get_nowait()
fd=rebuild_handle(h)
client_socket=socket.fromfd(fd,socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
#client_socket.send("hellofromtheworkerprocess\r\n")
received = client_socket.recv(1024)
print "Recieved on client: ",received
client_socket.close()
except Queue.Empty:
pass
#Dummy timer
time.sleep(self.SLEEP_INTERVAL)
class MyTCPHandler(SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):
"""
The RequestHandler class for our server.
It is instantiated once per connection to the server, and must
override the handle() method to implement communication to the
client.
"""
def handle(self):
# self.request is the TCP socket connected to the client
#self.data = self.request.recv(1024).strip()
#print "{} wrote:".format(self.client_address[0])
#print self.data
# just send back the same data, but upper-cased
#self.request.sendall(self.data.upper())
#Either pipe it to worker directly like this
#pipe_to_worker.send(h) #instanceofmultiprocessing.Pipe
#or use a Queue :)
h = reduce_handle(self.request.fileno())
socket_queue.put(h)
if __name__ == "__main__":
#Mainprocess
address = ('localhost', 8082)
server = SocketServer.TCPServer(address, MyTCPHandler)
socket_queue = multiprocessing.Queue()
for i in range(2):
worker = MultiprocessWorker(socket_queue)
worker.start()
try:
server.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit(0)
@vnevremeni
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Hello. I tried your script, but when I connect to it, it immediately closes the connection... I can't understand why. Can you help me?

@dmaple
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dmaple commented May 15, 2016

It exits because the handle() method ends and the tcpserver closes the connection after the handle method ends / returns.
You can see this by adding a time.sleep(90) after the socket_queue.put(h)

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