Hello all, I'm trying to understand how to properly structure a connection to an external system. I'm writing an application that processes requests (it's an IRC bot - ya, I've looked at lambabot but it's a bit beyond my current understanding and I'm really trying to learn this stuff and find the best way to do that is to write it myself) and sends requests to an external system, via SOAP. The SOAP requests should be sent on separate threads. The SOAP server requires an initial request for authentication be made to obtain a token used on subsequent requests.
There are three ways I can structure this. One is to do the authentication with the SOAP server when the application starts up and just use that token for all subsequent requests. This will fall over if the token times out and I'd have to restart the application. Another way is to do authenticate with the server and get a new token for each request. This is obviously really inefficient. What I'd like to do is something a bit smarter. When a request to the SOAP server is to be made, if we have a token then we try and use it. If it fails, we reauthenticate and get a new token. When establishing a new token, other threads trying to send SOAP requests should block until a new token is available. There are other conditions that should be handled - such as an exponential back-off when the SOAP server can't be reached - but I feel like reestablishing the authentication token is really the key concern here. Unfortunately, I have no idea right now how to write this in Haskell. Any pointers would be awesome. Thanks! Rich _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
