James Gray
10/2/2007 5:16:00 PM
On Oct 2, 2007, at 6:44 AM, Chris Bailey wrote:
> (Repost)
> Thank you for the correction Bertram, I've never used a mailing
> list before and it didn't occur to me. Hopefully it's in the right
> place now.
>
> I'm having a bit of a problem accessing variables in an instance of
> GServer.
> What I would like to do is make a hash that is effectively global
> to the
> current thread.
>
> -/Server.rb
> require 'gserver'
> require 'connect.rb'
>
> class TestServer < GServer
> def initialize(port = 4000, *args)
> super(port, *args)
> end
> def serve( io )
> @test_hash = Hash.new
> connect(io) #Defined in connect.rb
> loop do
> str = io.gets
> parser(str,io)
> end
> end
> end
>
> The way that I'm doing it doesn't allow each thread to have it's
> own copy of
> @test_hash and that's my problem. I need each thread to be able to
> change
> the data stored in the hash without affecting the data stored in
> the hash
> for all threads.
You could make test_hash a local variable and pass it as a parameter
into the methods you need it in.
You could also build a new object to represent client state, instead
of just using the server state object for everything. When a new
client connects, build the client object (passing in your Hash and IO
objects) and call some kind of run() method on the client to handle
everything else.
I hope that helps.
James Edward Gray II