Exactly the same API

On 15 May 2016 at 18:13, Michał Muskała <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2016-05-15 17:06 GMT+02:00 Peter Hamilton <[email protected]>:
> > One nitpick. Merge arg and state in the return in init. Having them
> separate
> > is confusing. Delayed init takes one parameter and returns a new state.
> What
> > happens to the originally returned state?
> >
>
> It was my intention to have delated_init/2 function taking the
> argument and state as arguments. Thank you for pointing that out.
>
> On Sun, May 15, 2016, 7:23 AM James Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I think the larger problem being tackled here is that current OTP
> > behaviours require the callbacks to be purely message based and do not
> make
> > it easy to dispatch internal events. Have you looked at :gen_statem in
> OTP
> > 19 rc1? I think it solves this problem quite well, or at least I have not
> > seen something I think is better. Once OTP 19 lands I'll release
> > :gen_connection which is :connection but using a :gen_statem instead of a
> > :gen_server. It simplifies the code enormously and works better with OTPs
> > logging and debugging features. It might be that you want to propose
> > including GenStatem instead of a delayed init.
>
> I have to admit, I haven't looked into gen_statem before. Now that I
> have, I can see some overlap in the things it offers and my proposal,
> especially the ability to call `enter_loop` by hand. My main use case
> of this feature was offering a custom gen_server-like behaviours, so
> I'm fine with that level of detail to handle in a lib.
> Do you intend to keep the gen_server like interface for gen_connection
> or rather migrate to something more similar to gen_statem?
>
> Michał.
>
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