On 3/20/07, Richard Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Trustin Lee wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Harold Combs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Even if the protocol must implement a complex state machine with
>> multiple
>> attributes, this is best done by storing a single "state" object in the
>> session and using the State Pattern.
>>
>> I've been working on several such protocols using a proprietary
>> solution via
>> Conduits+, but I'd like to port them to MINA. I imagine this will be a
>> common case--writing a State Machine for the codec, and attaching it
>> to the
>> session Does MINA (or some other OSS project) have support for this
>> directly (maybe defining the state machine and transitions
>> declaratively?
>
> I wrote a generic codec utilities based on state machine in AsyncWeb.
> I implemented HTTP on top of it, so it should be able to implement
> most protocols quite effectively. If you are interested, please take
> a look here:
>
>
https://svn.safehaus.org/repos/asyncweb/trunk/core/src/main/java/org/safehaus/asyncweb/codec/decoder/HttpRequestDecodingState.java
>
>
> It's just a starting point, so you will have to look around other
> related classes, too.
>
That looks like pretty useful code for creating stateful decoders. Any
chance this could make it into MINA proper?
It's in progress. Dave (the project lead) is currently out of reach,
so we are waiting for him to come back. Anyways, it's licensed under
ASL 2.0, you can use it as long as you keep the license terms.
Trustin
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