Perhaps specification should state:
"The last *completed* request, in the sense that its coresponding
service() call has already returned"
to be more clear.
Cezar.
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Jason Hunter wrote:
> Hans Bergsten wrote:
>
> > "Returns the last time the client sent a request carrying the
> > identifier assigned to the session, or -1 if the session is new."
>
> It's kind of like when it *is* Friday and you say "last Friday" which
> one are you referring to? :-)
>
> > To me this means it has to be reset every time the engine receives a
> > request that includes the session ID; the current request is the "last
> > time" a request for the session was received.
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing something here, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
> > To return the time for the previous request (n-1) the engine must have
> > "look back" feature, i.e. remember when the previous request was
> > received and set the last accessed time to this value when it
> > receives the current request. That sounds a bit convoluted to me.
>
> The implementation has to a bit convoluted (involving two vars), but
> n-1 is the only thing that's useful, and it's the way JSDK 2.1 is
> implemented. When the spec's unclear we should go with the JSDK
> reference impl.
>
> BTW, if the server returned the time at which you *just* called
> getSession() then the -1 wouldn't make much sense.
>
> -jh-
>
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