Based on discussion earlier, this is how we expect the client-side streaming API to look:

Response streaming

We'll introduce a stream method on the TChannel object and its argscheme-specific proxies that will accept the same arguments as call. Instead of a standard response, it'll return a streaming response object which provides a .read() method.

response = tchannel.stream(service='foo', endpoint='bar', body='listItems')
headers = response.headers
try:
    while True:
        chunk = yield response.read()
        process(chunk)
except EndOfStream:
    pass

Request streaming

We'll have a body_producer parameter on both call and stream. body_producer may be passed in lieu of the body. It will be a function that accepts a write function and calls it to write to the stream. The function must be a coroutine, or return a function that resolves to None when it finishes writing.

@gen.coroutine
def producer(write):
    for line in some_file:
        yield write(line)

response = yield tchannel.call(endpoint='foo', service='bar', body_producer=producer)

# Bidirectional streaming:

response = yield tchannel.stream(endpoint='foo', service='bar', body_producer=producer)
try:
    while True:
        chunk = yield response.read()
        process(chunk)
except EndOfStream:
    pass

Suggestion: make the streamed response iterable, e.g. for thing in response.

@blampe +1