OK. I don't think there's a built-in function that does what you want, but you could add one that returns jsonrpc_session_get_seqno(idl->session). If the value changes, there's been a connection or disconnection.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:13:11AM +0530, Arunkumar Rg wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I'm using ovsdb replication feature. Now when the server transitions from > 'Active' to 'Backup' state, the client doesn't get a notification about the > server's state(active/backup). > Obviously the client can use 'ovsdb-server/sync-status' ctl command to pull > the server's state info, but since it is a pull method, I need to do a > periodic polling for getting server's state, which I think is costly. > > Further, what I noticed is that the server resets all the remote > connections when it's state changes. So I was thinking to pull the server's > state only when the connection resets, instead of periodic polling. > > In my client application(using ovsdb-IDL), I want to clear the > application's info before the server's state changes to 'backup'. > > Thanks, > Arun. > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 08:03:39AM +0530, Arunkumar Rg wrote: > > > I'm using ovsdb_idl in my-ovsdb-client code. In my clide code, when I > > > create the idl using ovsdb_idl_create(), I set the 'retry' argument has > > > true, so that if the connection to server gets closed, it does a retry. > > > > > > Now from my client code, I wanted to know the session state with the > > > server. Is there any API or any other way to do it?? > > > > > > I need this because whenever the connection to server flaps, I wanted to > > > take some action. > > > > Usually that's not too useful, because the data in the IDL is stable > > across connection flaps. Can you explain your higher-level goal? > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
