On Jan 16, 2012, at 5:19 AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:

> I don't just write English, I also write Smalltalk :)  

:)

> I had put some related code on SqueakMap, but I suspect it disappeared in one 
> of the meltdowns.  It also picked up some code that I had not intended to 
> release, which led me to be unhappy with http repositories.
> 
> The code varies in quality, covering things missing in streams, FFI, value 
> adapters, among other things.  I recently noted that the FFI code will 
> require tweaking to be of use with 1.3 and up.

if you have fixes for FFi please publish it because we need a good FFI.

> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] 
> [[email protected]] on behalf of Stéphane Ducasse 
> [[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] reading *exactly* n bytes from socket
> 
> On Jan 15, 2012, at 9:19 PM, Max Leske wrote:
> 
>> Good to know, that you're working on it. Took me a while to figure out that 
>> #next: would not fill the entiry buffer…
> 
> I'm not. I just know that bill tried to explain to us what was the problem :) 
> and since the emails/sentences were too long or too english I was always lost 
> but I know that there is this point that we should address.
> 
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I wasn't able to resolve my afore mentioned problem 
>> completely. To make things easier, I sent #upToEnd to my SocketStream, 
>> expecting to get all the data (and then read the lines later). However, 
>> towards the end of the transmission the connection is suddenly closed 
>> (ConnectionClosed is signaled by Socket>>waitForDataFor:) and I lose a 
>> variable amount of data (up to about 300KB out of 4.7MB). The primitive says 
>> that the server closed the connection (which might of course be true) but I 
>> can't see where my data went missing.
>> 
>> In one case I even had a singel byte missing inside a line (the line was one 
>> byte shorter than advertised). Now this would probably be a totally 
>> different proplem and, to be fair, I couldn' reproduce it, so ignore this 
>> for now.
>> 
>> Camillo is now looking into ithe SocketStream stuff but if any of you have a 
>> clue what could be going on, I'd appreciate your help.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>> 
>> On 15.01.2012, at 20:56, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 15, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Max,
>>>> 
>>>> I wouldn't forget it too soon.  Streams should work as advertised or raise 
>>>> an error.  My (compromise) proposal remains as follows:
>>>> 
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/StreamsForRobustSoftware
>>> 
>>> Yes :)
>>> 
>>> I know.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Bill
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: [email protected] 
>>>> [[email protected]] on behalf of Max Leske 
>>>> [[email protected]]
>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 6:18 AM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] reading *exactly* n bytes from socket
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry, forget what I just wrote…
>>>> I found the bug in my code. Should have checked if the connection is still 
>>>> open :-/
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Max
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 15.01.2012, at 12:09, Max Leske wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hey guys
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm having a problem with Socket / SocketStream. When I know that the 
>>>>> next packet of data from the server is going to be 10'000 bytes I want to 
>>>>> ask the socket for exactly 10'000 bytes of data (I don't care how long it 
>>>>> takes). However, the comments in the Socket class suggest that the buffer 
>>>>> might not be filled entirely when the message answers. As a consequence, 
>>>>> my code fails because the ByteArray sometimes has a number of zero bytes 
>>>>> at the end which obviously wasn't expected.
>>>>> I also tried to use SocketStream to get around this problem but wasn't 
>>>>> successful. Am I supposed to handle this case myself or did I overlook 
>>>>> something?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Max
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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