Re: SysApps Raw Socket API

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Nilsson, Claes1 <
Claes1.Nilsson@sonymobile.com> wrote:

> I have submitted a proposal for a raw socket API:
> http://sysapps.github.com/sysapps/proposals/raw-socket/Socket.HTML. ****
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> The proposal is based on the Chrome Socket API,
> http://developer.chrome.com/apps/socket.html. ****
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> **·        **This use of a Socket object, for which a set of methods is
> defined, is different from the Chrome Socket API, which uses a "socket id"
> as input parameter in all methods. An alternative would be to define a
> Socket interface constructor so that a Socket object for example is created
> with mySocket = new Socket (’tcp’);. WDYT?
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I like the suggestion to use an interface constructor.

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> **·        **Do we need both the disconnect() and destroy methods() ?
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I assume it is important to leave both, for efficiency and
api consistency reasons.  Consider create() and connect() as parallels to
disconnect() and destroy(), if you do not suggest merging the former two,
why consider merging the latter?
However, perhaps a call to destroy() could imply a call to disconnect()
since the common case would have clients doing that.

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> **·        **So far support for server sockets through the methods
> listen() and accept() has been omitted. Not sure on use cases for server
> sockets.
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 Peer-to-peer applications, game servers, etc etc.  There are very many use
cases.

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> **·        **I defined ”CreateOptions” to support multicast use cases
> (UPnP SSDP etc) but I am not sure what is needed here. WDYT?
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> Sorry for missing the Jan 1 deadline.****
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> Best regards****
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>   Claes****
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