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Re: [Agentx] Benefit of multiple sessions per sub-agent connection

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Fri, 02 July 2010 04:12 UTC

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Hi -

> From: "Julian Scheid" <julians37@googlemail.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <agentx@ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Agentx] Benefit of multiple sessions per sub-agent connection
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> Sure, but even when hiding the ID, exposing a session object
> complicates the API slightly - now people have to interact with two
> objects rather than one.  There'll be an additional call to create the
> session and users will have to worry about things like the session
> object becoming invalid when the connection is closed. Not that big of
> a deal but if those details can be hidden, all the better.

Depending on your environment, you may want to consider how you
handle multiple transports.  Also, if you're working with a select() paradigm
in an event-driven system, for example, there's good reason to separate
the notion of connection from the notion of session.

Randy

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