HTTP回调URL与WebSocket进行异步响应？

Question

I have two servers: Golang and Python (2.7). The Python (Bottle) server has a computation intensive task to perform and exposes a RESTful URI to start the execution of the process. That is, the Go server sends:

HTTP GET to myserver.com/data

The python server performs the computation and needs to inform the Go server of the completion of the processing. There are two ways in which I see this can be designed:

1. Go sends a callback URL/data to Python and python responds by hitting that URL. E.g:
   

   HTTP GET | myserver.com/data | Data{callbackURI:goserver.com/process/results, Type: POST, response:"processComplete"}

2. Have a WebSocket based response be sent back from Python to Go.

What would be a more suitable design? Are there pros/cons of doing one over the other? Other than error conditions (server crashed etc.,) the only thing that the Python server needs to actually "inform" the client is about completing the computation. That's the only response.

The team working on the Go server is not very well versed with having a Go client based on websockets/ajax (nor do I. But I've never written a single line of Go :) #1 seems to be easier but am not aware of whether it is an accepted design approach or is it just a hack? What's the recommended way to proceed in this regard?

Answer 1

It depends on how often these signal are being sent. If it's many times per second, keeping a websocket open might make more sense. Otherwise, use option #1 since it will have less overhead and be more loosely coupled.