Hi Jens
Quoting Jens Geyer <jensge...@hotmail.com>:
Hi all,
a frequent question is how a (typically server-side) event handler
could find out more about his counterpart, say the IP address or the
like. The common suggestion is that this is highly depending on the
transport (which is true) and therefore doomed to fail if anything
changes at that end, hence one /may/ use a cast but ... you know.
Here’s the question: Why can’t we just come up with some standard
way how these variable and context-sensitive information can be
handed over to the event handler(s), either implicitly by default,
or alternatively on request? Two approaches that immediately come to
my mind are these:
a) a simple key/value map (both strings?), where key can be anything
b) some predefined structure that can hold all kind of information
possible with existing transports
While (a) is easily extendable, (b) is probably more performant.
Thoughts?
I'm in favour of b) as it seems to be inline with our vision
(performance + interoperability)
I guess a) will fragment the behavior and usage within the languages too much
best!
-roger
