On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:42 PM, David Welch <dwelch@umail.ucsb.edu> wrote:
Matt,
I read that howto/servers documentation and I have set up my code into a Factory and Protocol that handles incoming connections.
Honestly, I don't think we're dealing with a design pattern issue now.
I don't think I explained myself well enough though. When a client connects, the server may or may not being send data back right away so I need to be able to send data to that connected client on the servers terms. For example:
Client 1 connects -- Factory instantiates Protocol class to handle communication (connection doesn't close) Client 2 connects -- Factory instantiates Protocol class to handle communication (connection doesn't close) <time has passed until server decides it needs to send a plugin to one of the clients> Server sends plugin to Client 1
So how can that server send data to client 1 if client 1 hasn't caused an event (The server side causes a certain event it should send data to a selected client).
Define `event'. Is the initial connection not an event? If you have an open connection, the client doesn't have fart back through it every 5 seconds (by the semantics of most protocols) to keep it open or anything.
I understand that if a client sends data to the server I can than write back to the client using the dataReceived function within the Protocol instantiation.
Are you sure you understand? You're calling dataReceive to send data? If you're calling a method (that's what you meant by "function within the Protocol instantiation", I guess) with "receive" in the name, then you can only be very confused.
In this case once N number of agents have connected I want the server to push data to the clients without the Client writing to the server. Thanks again for the help.
So write back data to the client. That's all I can say until you describe what you've tried (w/ code) and why it failed (w/ a stacktrace) - vs. in pretty vague terms on essay on what you want to do and haven't even attempted. -- \\\\\/\"/\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\/ // //\/\\\\\\\ \\\/ \\// /\ \/\\\\ \\/ /\/ / /\/ /\ \\\ \/ / /\/ /\ /\\\ \\ / /\\\ /\\\ \\\\\/\ \/\\\\\/\\\\\/\\\\\\ d.p.s