I have a TCP socket connection in which I need to process several requests
and conj each request and it's corresponding response to a vector for
logging purposes. I need to transmit and receive via two asynchronous
threads, where a transmit function is responsible for sending requests and
a receive function is responsible for receiving responses from a server.
My understanding is that for asynchronous transmission, I need to use agent in
Clojure to accomplish this. However, I also need to ensure serial access to
the vector, since both threads are trying to modify it at any given time.
I tried to get something working, but my agent ends up in a failed state
after making a few requests and processing a few responses. Below is the
code showing what I am attempting to do. If anyone could give me some
guidance, it would be greatly appreciated.
;; the shared resource
(def async-log (agent []))
;; I thought this needed to be synchronized for serial access, so I
used
;; dosync, but I am not sure if this is right. In any case, it doesn't
;; seem to make a difference
(defn add-entry
[coll entry]
(dosync (conj coll entry)))
;; transmit function
(defn transmit
[log writer socket request]
(let [request (request->String request socket)
bytes-out (request->bytes request)
length (count bytes-out)]
(.writeShort writer length)
(.write writer bytes-out 0 length)
(add-entry log request)))
;; Receive function
(defn receive
[log reader socket]
(let [length (read-length reader)
bytes-in (byte-array request/max-message-size)]
(.read reader bytes-in 0 length)
(add-entry log (to-string bytes-in))))
;; process each request, n times
(defn process-requests
[request socket iters]
(with-open [reader (DataInputStream. (.getInputStream socket))
writer (DataOutputStream. (.getOutputStream socket))]
(dotimes [x iters]
(send-off async-log transmit writer socket request)
(send-off async-log receive reader socket)
(Thread/sleep 50))))
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