Re: Async processing

[agentzh]

Hello!

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Sparsh Gupta <spars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I am writing code for a particular location in lua but I want
> that code to get processed asynchronously. Ideally what I will want is
> something like:
>
> location = /log {
>    empty_gif; #I want the connection to close now as there is no
> response that needs to be sent to the request
>
>    content_by_lua '
>                                -- Here I will use all the GET
> parameters sent and process it and log it whereever I want to. This
> can take time and ofcourse I dont want people to wait for this
>                           ';
> }
>
>
> Do you have a scenario where this can work easily. Currently in PHP we
> use ob_flush followed by queue system but thats kinda pain.
>

The short answer is no. Check out the following thread on the
openresty mailing list for a work-around involving ngx.eof() to this
issue:

https://groups.google.com/group/openresty/browse_thread/thread/7fc9320d9f221c59

It's in Chinese though, you can use Google Translate or something like
that to convert it to some other language you're comfortable with.

Regards,
-agentzh

P.S. I'm cc'ing the openresty mailing list so that people can see this
discussion.