[Seaside] running code asynchronously

[Stefan Schmiedl]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:17:45 +0200
rjk <rjkerkhoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Seasiders,
> 
> I'm cooking up some seaside/code recipes as an exercise and hopefully
> for (web)publication some day, i have the following question;
> 
> Q. How do i run code asynchronously (inside the request/response  
> cycle) ?

The question sounds wrong :-D

IMO, it's either "synchronously inside the cycle" or "asynchronously
beside the cycle".

> A. My answer at this point is the following using a [block] fork.  
> construct
> as described in Smalltalk by example from alex sharp:
> 
> 	01 renderContentOn: html
> 	02    html paragraph: Time now asTimeStamp.
> 	03    [Transcript cr; show: 'waiting for 10 seconds...'.
> 	04    (Delay forSeconds: 10) wait.
> 	05    Transcript cr; show: 'done!...'] fork.
> 	06    html paragraph: Time now asTimeStamp.
> 
> Could somebody confirm this? and give additional comments if this is  
> not the true seaside way?

re "true seaside way": That would totally depend on what you're doing
in the forked thread.

s.