Re: How to deal with dynamically changing line terminators?

[Yigal Rachman]

Hi, Adam: Thank you for pointing me to AsyncWeb - really interesting stuff!  I found ConsumeToCRLFDecoder and ConsumeToCharacterDecoder, but no ConsumeToDynamicTerminatorDecodingState.  Any idea where I might find this? BTW, I have already coded some of my driver using state machines, and am 100% sold on this way of doing things.  It is amazingly efficient for managing i/o transactions of arbitrary duration because it does not keep threads waiting. - Yigal Adam Fisk wrote: I'd give the state machine in AsyncWeb a look, as well as some of the helper classes. The state machine approach takes awhile to wrap your head around if you're not used to it, but it works well. The "ConsumeToDynamicTerminatorDecodingState" helper class will do exactly what you want. You would need to write a fair bit of custom state machine code for your protocol going this route, but I think it's worth it. http://docs.safehaus.org/display/ASYNCWEB/Home -Adam On 8/9/07, Yigal Rachman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Folks: I have a MINA client that acts as a driver for a scientific instrument. The communication is via a serial link using ASCII. The messages from the instrument are usually terminated with a line feed, but are sometimes terminated with a ">" instead (when it is prompting for commands). Could you please suggest a design pattern that would do this elegantly in MINA? I expect it will use the TextLineCodec and possibly some other filters, but I am fuzzy on the details. Best regards, Yigal Rachman DMAS Data Acquisition Developer NEPTUNE Canada University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada www.neptunecanada.ca