Alternatively:  https://github.com/andris9/rai

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes you need a state machine. This is basically how SMTP works, so you
> should look into one of the SMTP modules like Haraka.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Andrew Finnell <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> I have been investigating NodeJS for quite some time. I see the benefits
>> of the asynchronous nature and the pool of talent available to write in
>> JavaScript.
>>
>> I have having a little difficulty understanding how I might write a
>> system to deal with TL1 type devices. For those that do not know TL1 is a
>> command based protocol that can run over TCP/IP. You can do things like:
>>
>> > CONNECT (id) username/password
>> < Success (id)
>> RETRIEVE-DATA (id) parameter1
>> < data 1 (id)
>> < data 2 (id)
>> < asynchronous response (out-of-band) (id)
>> < asynchronous response (out-of-band) (someone elses id)
>>
>> I made up the commands to simplify the idea, but most of the time the
>> flow fits a synchronous model.
>>
>> I thought about creating a simple FSM around the current states of the
>> system such as connecting, asking for data etc, but this seems overly
>> complex for doing something so simple that can be done with TELNET and a
>> bash script file.
>>
>> Does anyone have patterns that they have successfully used to solve these
>> kinds of problems?
>>
>>
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