<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"><head><title>Twisted Documentation: Twisted Glossary</title><link href="../howto/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /></head><body bgcolor="white"><h1 class="title">Twisted Glossary</h1><div class="toc"><ol></ol></div><div class="content"><span></span><dl><dt><a name="adaptee">adaptee</a></dt><dd> An object that has been adapted, also called <q>original</q>. See <a href="#Adapter">Adapter</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Adapter"><code base="twisted.python.components" noexpand="1" class="API">Adapter</code></a></dt><dd> An object whose sole purpose is to implement an Interface for another object. See <a href="components.html">Interfaces and Adapters</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Application"><code base="twisted.application.service" noexpand="1" class="API">Application</code></a></dt><dd> A <code class="API">twisted.application.service.Application</code>. There are HOWTOs on <a href="basics.html">creating and manipulating</a> them as a system-administrator, as well as <a href="application.html">using</a> them in your code. </dd><dt><a name="Avatar">Avatar</a></dt><dd> (from <a href="#Cred">Twisted Cred</a>) business logic for specific user. For example, in <a href="#PB">PB</a> these are perspectives, in pop3 these are mailboxes, and so on. </dd><dt><a name="Banana"><code base="twisted.spread.banana" noexpand="1" class="API">Banana</code></a></dt><dd> The low-level data marshalling layer of <a href="#Spread">Twisted Spread</a>. See <code class="API">twisted.spread.banana</code>. </dd><dt><a name="Broker"><code base="twisted.spread.pb" noexpand="1" class="API">Broker</code></a></dt><dd> A <code class="API">twisted.spread.pb.Broker</code>, the object request broker for <a href="#Spread">Twisted Spread</a>. </dd><dt><a name="cache">cache</a></dt><dd> A way to store data in readily accessible place for later reuse. Caching data is often done because the data is expensive to produce or access. Caching data risks being stale, or out of sync with the original data. </dd><dt><a name="component">component</a></dt><dd> A special kind of (persistent) <code base="twisted.python.components" class="API">Adapter</code> that works with a <code class="API">twisted.python.components.Componentized</code>. See also <a href="components.html">Interfaces and Adapters</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Componentized"><code base="twisted.python.components" noexpand="1" class="API">Componentized</code></a></dt><dd> A Componentized object is a collection of information, separated into domain-specific or role-specific instances, that all stick together and refer to each other. Each object is an <code base="twisted.python.components" class="API">Adapter</code>, which, in the context of Componentized, we call <q>components</q>. See also <a href="components.html">Interfaces and Adapters</a>. </dd><dt><a name="conch"><code base="twisted" noexpand="1" class="API">conch</code></a></dt><dd>Twisted's SSH implementation.</dd><dt><a name="Connector">Connector</a></dt><dd> Object used to interface between client connections and protocols, usually used with a <code class="API">twisted.internet.protocol.ClientFactory</code> to give you control over how a client connection reconnects. See <code class="API">twisted.internet.interfaces.IConnector</code> and <a href="clients.html">Writing Clients</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Consumer">Consumer</a></dt><dd> An object that consumes data from a <a href="#Producer">Producer</a>. See <code class="API">twisted.internet.interfaces.IConsumer</code>. </dd><dt><a name="Cred">Cred</a></dt><dd> Twisted's authentication API, <code class="API">twisted.cred</code>. See <a href="cred.html">Introduction to Twisted Cred</a> and <a href="pb-cred.html">Twisted Cred usage</a>. </dd><dt><a name="credentials">credentials</a></dt><dd> A username/password, public key, or some other information used for authentication. </dd><dt><a name="credential-checker">credential checker</a></dt><dd> Where authentication actually happens. See <code base="twisted.cred.checkers" class="API">ICredentialChecker</code>. </dd><dt><a name="CVSToys">CVSToys</a></dt><dd>A nifty set of tools for CVS, available at <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/users/acapnotic/wares/code/CVSToys/">http://twistedmatrix.com/users/acapnotic/wares/code/CVSToys/</a>.</dd><dt><a name="Deferred"><code base="twisted.internet.defer" class="API">Deferred</code></a></dt><dd> A instance of <code class="API">twisted.internet.defer.Deferred</code>, an abstraction for handling chains of callbacks and error handlers (<q>errbacks</q>). See the <a href="defer.html">Deferring Execution</a> HOWTO. </dd><dt><a name="Enterprise">Enterprise</a></dt><dd> Twisted's RDBMS support. It contains <code class="API">twisted.enterprise.adbapi</code> for asynchronous access to any standard DB-API 2.0 module, and <code class="API">twisted.enterprise.row</code>, a <q><a href="#ROW">Relational Object Wrapper</a></q>. See <a href="enterprise.html">Introduction to Twisted Enterprise</a> and <a href="row.html">Twisted Enterprise Row Objects</a> for more details. </dd><dt><a name="errback">errback</a></dt><dd> A callback attached to a <a href="#Deferred">Deferred</a> with <code>.addErrback</code> to handle errors. </dd><dt><a name="Factory"><code base="twisted.internet.protocol" noexpand="1" class="API">Factory</code></a></dt><dd> In general, an object that constructs other objects. In Twisted, a Factory usually refers to a <code class="API">twisted.internet.protocol.Factory</code>, which constructs <a href="#Protocol">Protocol</a> instances for incoming or outgoing connections. See <a href="servers.html">Writing Servers</a> and <a href="clients.html">Writing Clients</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Failure"><code base="twisted.python.failure" noexpand="1" class="API">Failure</code></a></dt><dd> Basically, an asynchronous exception that contains traceback information; these are used for passing errors through asynchronous callbacks. </dd><dt><a name="im">im, t-im</a></dt><dd> Abbreviation of <q>(Twisted) <a href="#InstanceMessenger">Instance Messenger</a></q>. </dd><dt><a name="InstanceMessenger">Instance Messenger</a></dt><dd> Instance Messenger is a multi-protocol chat program that comes with Twisted. It can communicate via TOC with the AOL servers, via IRC, as well as via <a href="#PerspectiveBroker">PB</a> with <a href="#Words">Twisted Words</a>. See <code class="API">twisted.im</code>. </dd><dt><a name="Interface"><code base="twisted.python.components" noexpand="1" class="API">Interface</code></a></dt><dd> A class that defines and documents methods that a class conforming to that interface needs to have. A collection of core twisted.internet interfaces can be found in <code class="API">twisted.internet.interfaces</code>. See also <a href="components.html">Interfaces and Adapters</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Jelly">Jelly</a></dt><dd> The serialization layer for <a href="#Spread">Twisted Spread</a>, although it can be used seperately from Twisted Spread as well. It is similar in purpose to Python's standard <code>pickle</code> module, but is more network-friendly, and depends on a separate marshaller (<a href="#Banana">Banana</a>, in most cases). See <code class="API">twisted.spread.jelly</code>. </dd><dt><a name="Lore">Lore</a></dt><dd><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/lore/">Lore</a> is Twisted's documentation system. The source format is a subset of XHTML, and output formats include HTML and LaTeX.</dd><dt><a name="Manhole">Manhole</a></dt><dd> A debugging/administration interface to a Twisted application. </dd><dt><a name="Microdom">Microdom</a></dt><dd> A partial DOM implementation using <a href="#SUX">SUX</a>. It is simple and pythonic, rather than strictly standards-compliant. See <code class="API">twisted.web.microdom</code>. </dd><dt><a name="Names">Names</a></dt><dd>Twisted's DNS server, found in <code class="API">twisted.names</code>.</dd><dt><a name="Nevow">Nevow</a></dt><dd>The successor to <a href="#Woven">Woven</a>, a web framework available at <a href="http://nevow.com/">nevow.com</a>. </dd><dt><a name="PB">PB</a></dt><dd> Abbreviation of <q><a href="#PerspectiveBroker">Perspective Broker</a></q>. </dd><dt><a name="PerspectiveBroker">Perspective Broker</a></dt><dd> The high-level object layer of Twisted <a href="#Spread">Spread</a>, implementing semantics for method calling and object copying, caching, and referencing. See <code class="API">twisted.spread.pb</code>. </dd><dt><a name="Portal">Portal</a></dt><dd> Glues <a href="#credential-checker">credential checkers</a> and <a href="#realm">realm</a>s together. </dd><dt><a name="Producer">Producer</a></dt><dd> An object that generates data a chunk at a time, usually to be processed by a <a href="#Consumer">Consumer</a>. See <code class="API">twisted.internet.interfaces.IProducer</code>. </dd><dt><a name="Protocol"><code base="twisted.internet.protocol" noexpand="1" class="API">Protocol</code></a></dt><dd> In general each network connection has its own Protocol instance to manage connection-specific state. There is a collection of standard protocol implementations in <code class="API">twisted.protocols</code>. See also <a href="servers.html">Writing Servers</a> and <a href="clients.html">Writing Clients</a>. </dd><dt><a name="PSU">PSU</a></dt><dd>There is no PSU.</dd><dt><a name="Reactor">Reactor</a></dt><dd> The core event-loop of a Twisted application. See <a href="reactor-basics.html">Reactor Basics</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Reality">Reality</a></dt><dd>See <q><a href="#TwistedReality">Twisted Reality</a></q></dd><dt><a name="realm">realm</a></dt><dd> (in <a href="#Cred">Twisted Cred</a>) stores <a href="#Avatar">avatars</a> and perhaps general business logic. See <code base="twisted.cred.portal" class="API">IRealm</code>. </dd><dt><a name="Resource"><code base="twisted.web.resource" noexpand="1" class="API">Resource</code></a></dt><dd> A <code class="API">twisted.web.resource.Resource</code>, which are served by Twisted Web. Resources can be as simple as a static file on disk, or they can have dynamically generated content. </dd><dt><a name="ROW">ROW</a></dt><dd><em>R</em>elational <em>O</em>bject <em>W</em>rapper, an object-oriented interface to a relational database. See <a href="row.html">Twisted Enterprise Row Objects</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Service">Service</a></dt><dd> A <code class="API">twisted.application.service.Service</code>. See <a href="application.html">Application howto</a> for a description of how they relate to <a href="#Application">Applications</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Spread">Spread</a></dt><dd><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/products/spread">Twisted Spread</a> is Twisted's remote-object suite. It consists of three layers: <a href="#PerspectiveBroker">Perspective Broker</a>, <a href="#Jelly">Jelly</a> and <a href="#Banana">Banana.</a> See <a href="pb.html">Writing Applications with Perspective Broker</a>.</dd><dt><a name="SUX">SUX</a></dt><dd><em>S</em>mall <em>U</em>ncomplicated <em>X</em>ML, Twisted's simple XML parser written in pure Python. See <code class="API">twisted.protocols.sux</code>.</dd><dt><a name="TAP">TAP</a></dt><dd><em>T</em>wisted <em>A</em>pplication <em>P</em>ickle, or simply just a <em>T</em>wisted <em>AP</em>plication. A serialised application that created with <code>mktap</code> and runnable by <code>twistd</code>. See <a href="basics.html">Using the Utilities</a>.</dd><dt><a name="Trial">Trial</a></dt><dd><code class="API">twisted.trial</code>, Twisted's unit-testing framework, modelled after <a href="http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/">pyunit</a>. See also <a href="testing.html">Writing tests for Twisted code</a>.</dd><dt><a name="TwistedMatrixLaboratories">Twisted Matrix Laboratories</a></dt><dd>The team behind Twisted. <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/">http://twistedmatrix.com/</a>.</dd><dt><a name="TwistedReality">Twisted Reality</a></dt><dd> In days of old, the <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/products/reality">Twisted Reality</a> multiplayer text-based interactive-fiction system was the main focus of Twisted Matrix Labs; Twisted, the general networking framework, grew out of Reality's need for better network functionality. Twisted Reality has since been broken off into a separate project. </dd><dt><a name="usage"><code base="twisted.python" noexpand="1" class="API">usage</code></a></dt><dd>The <code class="API">twisted.python.usage</code> module, a replacement for the standard <code>getopt</code> module for parsing command-lines which is much easier to work with. See <a href="options.html">Parsing command-lines</a>.</dd><dt><a name="Words">Words</a></dt><dd>Twisted Words is a multi-protocol chat server that uses the <a href="#PerspectiveBroker">Perspective Broker</a> protocol as its native communication style. See <code class="API">twisted.words</code>.</dd><dt><a name="Woven">Woven</a></dt><dd><em>W</em>eb <em>O</em>bject <em>V</em>isualization <em>En</em>vironment. A deprecated web templating system based on XML and the Model-View-Controller design pattern. This has been deprecated in favor of <a href="http://nevow.com/">Nevow</a>.</dd></dl></div><p><a href="../howto/index.html">Index</a></p><span class="version">Version: 2.5.0</span></body></html>