[PD] new [tcpserver] (was: pd and tcp: what to do against crashes?)

[Roman Haefeli]

On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 19:54 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> hi again
> 
> a new stupid little problem occured. when working with [tcpserver], i
> usually identify the clients by their socket number and not by their
> client number; for two reasons: when a message is received or a new
> client connects, you can only know the socket number of it (since there
> is a dedicated socket outlet), but not the client id. the other reason
> is that socket numbers are persistent, while client numbers might
> change, if one or more clients disconnect or get disconnected. my
> problem is, that the new status outlet and also the method to set
> internal buffersize is based on the client number. it's not a that big
> problem, since whenever i sent a message to a socket number i will know
> the client number as well. but when receiving messages, you don't know
> which client it came from. i though about building a look-up table in
> order to look up a socket for its client number, but this is not very
> feasible, since the client id might not be valid anymore after one or
> more disconnects. 
> what i want to say, that it is currently not handy to use the new
> features, because you are forced to work in both domains, client and
> socket, at the same time. personally, i would prefer if everything would
> be socket based and i think, if you want to change it, then better now
> than later.
> another solution (though uglier, imho) would be to implement an internal
> look-up: 'get_client_id <socket>' -> [tcpserver] -> 'client_id <client>'
> to the status outlet.
> 
> what do you think?

i just found out, that there is already something as a look-up table:
when i send 'client' or 'client <client-id>' to [tcpserver], i actually
get all necessary information.

sorry for the noise.

roman


		
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