Event handling from within RPC?

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Is there a way to have an RPC listen for an event inline?

I have an RPC that triggers an external action, and then it needs to wait until that action is complete before it can return. I can poll for the status of the external action, but the result of the external action also triggers an event in Nameko that I would like the RPC to be able to receive so it doesn’t have to poll.

I could have the RPC method block on a Redis key, and an event handler listen for the event and then set the key, but it adds complexity that seems unnecessary.

Is there an easier way?

Thanks,

Bob

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Hi Bob,

I’d do exactly as you’ve described and use a redis lock.

There’s no out of the box way to do “inline” listening for events like this. You could write a DependencyProvider that spawned a thread with an AMQP consumer which would block until the event arrived. It wouldn’t be a lot of code. But an event handler that just set the redis key would be even less.

Matt.