Hello Francois, V6 is still in beta state, that's why I prefer the best solution regardless whether it breaks existing application code or not, as long as such 'breaking' changes are well documented.
Just my two cents. --- Arno Garrels [TeamICS] http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html Francois PIETTE wrote: > I'm working on V6 code to make it .NET compatible. Actually I'm > working on the HTTP client component. In that component, there is not > much to change to make it compatible with .NET. But there is one > annoying change: OnDocData event has a pointer argument and this is > defenitely not compatible with .NET. The pointer is actually pointing > somewhere into FReceiveBuffer. > > I'm not sure how to change the component and the OnDocData to make it > compatible with .NET without breaking existing code. Of course I could > change the event signature for .NET only. So there would be no > problem in win32 and no problem in .NET. But the same application > code could not be ported from one platform to the other. > > Another possibility is to completly change the OnDocData event > signature so that it is compatible with both win32 and .NET. This of > course would break all existing code. > > A third possibility is to preserve OnDocData as it is for win32, > suppress it for .NET and create a new event for both platforms. Old > code would continue to work and yet new code could be written to be > the same for both win32 and .NET. Conditional compilation could be > introduced to remove the current OnDocData to help make sure new code > use only the new event. > > I think about a new event of type TNotifyEvent (that is no argument > except sender). Actual document data could be retrieved either from > component runtime properties or copied using a new method (a kind of > Receive). > > Internally, the current implementation use a fixed array of char as > receive buffer (FReceiverBuffer). I think about changing it to a > dynamic array of bytes which is the best data type for .NET when you > need to receive any datatype. You can then transfer data to any > variable of any data type. And this code is also quite good in win32. > > Any opinion ? > > -- > Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit > http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
