Re: [CGILua] State persistent table

[Tomas <tomas@...>]

	Hi Javier,

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Javier Guerra wrote:

> On Monday 13 December 2004 7:20 pm, Tomas wrote:
> > > my main wish still missing would be the 'function URLs'.  That way, it
> > > would be easy to treat some URLs as RPCs.
> >
> >  But this could be achieved with the current implementation.
> > We test a simple XMLRPC server some time ago.
>
> right, but it's so many levels of abstraction... and XML for parameters... a
> lot of bloat for my taste.
	I know.  It was just a test to assure it was doable!

> what i propose is: just before checking for the
> luaPage file, check a table, if there's a function associated with that URL,
> call it instead of loading the luaPage.  if there's not, load it.  simple,
> lightweight, fast.
	You can build a script that does this.

> > > and having the user interface remotely visible using just any javascript
> > > compatible browser.  it's certainly possible using coroutines and a full
> > > cross-request persistence.
> >
> >  Yes.  It is possible.  But if you want a cross request
> > persistence, you'll have to dedicate one process to each user
> > running the application or we'll have to implement something
> > equivalent inside the launcher.
>
> not one process per user, just a coroutine.  the 'getevent()' function would
> do a yield, and the RPC would take a session id and retrieve the coroutine to
> resume.
	Therefore you'll only respond one request at a time!  And
you'll have to manage this shared global environment amongst all
coroutines.

> maybe the 'stable' persistence could take a timeout, to destroy stale
> sessions...
	Maybe...

	Tomas