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Re: [bug-serveez] Preserving object props on sockets
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Mike Gran |
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Re: [bug-serveez] Preserving object props on sockets |
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Sat, 7 Sep 2013 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT) |
> After much thought, i've decided that it is best to explicitly NOT
> support object properties on UDP and ICMP (generally, connectionless)
> sockets. This is motivated partly by implementation difficulty and
> partly by philosophical considerations (i.e., does "object identity"
> make sense for such a socket, and if so, could it be possible that
> the meaning may be application-dependent?).
>
> I think if the information of interest for the client code is the remote
> address (for instance) of a connectionless socket, the client code
> should be responsible for extracting that from the socket object and
> stick it in a hash table (or whatever), directly.
>
> Does that sound reasonable?
Works for me.