Dear Ashis,

The port only keeps a reference to the unbound tail of the stream.  It does
not keep alive all former messages that were sent.

Cheers,
raph

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Maity, Ashis K <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks Torsten. That worked. Basically I am wiping my Dictionary
> whenever I send 'refresh'. But that means Port will grow infinitely. Not
> sure what effect it will have in production. How does the Port ever get
> garbage collected anyway?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Ashis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Torsten Anders
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:09 PM
> To: Mozart users
> Subject: Re: Global variable (Dictionary)
>
> Dear Ashis,
>
> The port simply forwards the data, so when you what to "clean" it is
> too late anyway.
>
> Instead, what you could do is send a special message like 'refresh'
> through the port whenever you want to wipe you log. Then, at the
> receiving side in the top-level space you can write yourself a
> program which, e.g., wipes your log file whenever the message
> 'refresh' was sent.
>
> Best
> Torsten
>
> On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Maity, Ashis K wrote:
>
> > Thanks Filip. I am using it for kind of Logging purposes. But the port
> > is keeping up the logs (it's not really log for my case) from the last
> > run if I did not restart server. I want it to refresh the log (more
> > like
> > some diagnostic info in my case) at every run even I do not restart
> > the
> > server. Is there a simple way to clear the port?
> >
> > Ashis
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> > On Behalf Of Filip Konvicka
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:29 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Global variable (Dictionary)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> I am getting another hang-up here. It appears that Port is not
> >> getting
> >> cleaned up in subsequent runs if the underlying process does not die.
> > Is
> >> there a simple way to reset the Port/Stream?
> >
> > I am accessing ports from spaces without problems. Remeber, when using
> > this from scripts, the semantics must not break the rules of spaces -
> > identical queries should always return identical results. (I used this
> > for referencing external static data and for caching of const
> > calculations.) Other meaningful usages are console I/O (output) and
> > logging.
> >
> > What exact problems are you experiencing? Isn't it that the server
> > thread just died? Be sure to fortify the thread using try...catch for
> > each message.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Filip
> >
> >
> >> Thanks so much,
> >>
> >> Ashis
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:users-boun...@mozart-
> >> oz.org]
> >> On Behalf Of Maity, Ashis K
> >> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 3:50 PM
> >> To: Mozart users
> >> Subject: RE: Global variable (Dictionary)
> >>
> >> Thanks so much. I was able to solve my problem using Port.
> >>
> >> Ashis
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:users-boun...@mozart-
> >> oz.org]
> >> On Behalf Of Torsten Anders
> >> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:11 PM
> >> To: Mozart users
> >> Subject: Re: Global variable (Dictionary)
> >>
> >> On Feb 27, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Raphael Collet wrote:
> >>> The error message says that you are trying to modify a stateful
> >>> entity from inside a computation space.  This is forbidden by the
> >>> language definition, because it breaks an essential assumption on
> >>> computations spaces: they cannot have side effects.  There is an
> >>> exception to the rule, however: you can send messages on ports.
> >>
> >> Besides, you could put a dictionary inside the script so it becomes
> >> local.
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Torsten
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> raph
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Maity, Ashis K
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Hi everybody,
> >>>
> >>> How can I store data in a global variable (say in a Dictionary) in a
> >>> functor file so that I can export that data that can be accessed
> >>> from
> >>> another functor? Specifically, I am trying something like this
> >>> (seems
> >>> like this sandbox code doesn't even compile -- though actual code
> >>> does):
> >>>
> >>> functor
> >>> import
> >>> export
> >>> define
> >>>  Dict
> >>>
> >>>  Dict = {Dictionary.new}
> >>>
> >>>  proc{StoreInfo}
> >>>     {Dictionary.put Dict xx yy}
> >>>  end
> >>> end
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The program either hangs or I get error -- "assignment of global
> >>> variable from local space" (it appears that I can do Dictionary.get
> >>> operation from local space). If I can not do it this way is there
> >>> another way I can store several key-value pairs that can be
> >>> accessed at
> >>> the end of run from another(Client) Functor?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks so much.
> >>>
> >>> Ashis
> >>>
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