self.publish doesn't work in an infinite loop

I have this code :

class MyComponent(ApplicationSession):

   def onConnect(self):
      self.join("realm1")

   @inlineCallbacks
   def onJoin(self, details):
            for x in range(100):
                yield self.publish('foo', 'bar')

And it works : I can read the event on all the clients.

Now if I do :

class MyComponent(ApplicationSession):

   def onConnect(self):
      self.join("realm1")

   @inlineCallbacks
   def onJoin(self, details):
            while True:
                yield self.publish('foo', 'bar')

I don’t get any event on any client. Is it too fast and flooding the router ? In that case shouldn’t find a way to handle it by processing them batch by batch ?

[sametmax]

Thanks for this very insightful answer.

I do think it’s an important issue to fix. I tried to demonstrate crossbar to a friends working in a big american python shop and basically ended up making a fool of myself, spending half an hour trying to fix a non existent bug.

Given that error reporting with autobahn is lacking, at best, it made the experience quite frustrating because I couldn’t find what I was doing wrong. Combined with the usual gotchas (not calling connect() in JS or forgetting that publishers don’t receive their own publication by default), I had 0 thing working and no clue why for a looooog time.

Now, as a crossbar fan, I’m willing to encounter these problems and deal with it, but somebody trying by himself will just throw the product in a trash bin.

[sametmax]

Pretty much 😃