Le Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:14:05 +0200,
Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> the codec factory expose two methods :
>     public ProtocolEncoder getEncoder( IoSession session )
>     public ProtocolDecoder getDecoder( IoSession session )
> 
> Usually, when designing a new codec, those methods returns a new 
> instance of the decoder/encoder for each sessions, as these instances 
> are stored into the user's session. In many cases (ie, when the 
> encoding/decoding is stateless), this is useless. We should instead 
> create unique instances of those encoder/decoder, and store the
> instance into the session. Even if the codec is stateful, the current
> codec state should not be handled within the codec, but in a separate
> context object.
> 
> I'm not saying that the current implementation is wrong, but I think
> we should stress out this in the codec documentation, in order to let
> the protocol developers to know about it.
> 
I thought it was clear , but you are right, that need more
documentation (stateless vs statefull codec)
Julien

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