RE: SysApps Raw Socket API

Thanks for your feedback Michal!

I will update the specification according to your response but will wait a few days to see if I get more comments.

Best regards
Claes

From: Michal Mocny [mailto:mmocny@google.com]
Sent: den 9 januari 2013 17:17
To: Nilsson, Claes1
Cc: public-sysapps@w3.org
Subject: Re: SysApps Raw Socket API



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

The proposal is based on the Chrome Socket API, http://developer.chrome.com/apps/socket.html.

Comments:


*        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?
I like the suggestion to use an interface constructor.

*        Do we need both the disconnect() and destroy methods() ?
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.

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

*        I defined "CreateOptions" to support multicast use cases (UPnP SSDP etc) but I am not sure what is needed here. WDYT?

Sorry for missing the Jan 1 deadline.

Best regards
  Claes

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Claes Nilsson M.Sc.E.E
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Technology Research - Advanced Application Lab

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