Re: [Help-smalltalk] [Q] Any simple example or documentation on NetServer code?

[Paolo Bonzini]

> Sorry, i got the topic somehow wrong in the other posts. Sorry for
> being so noisy. I most should've posted the stuff more as a question
> of mine than an answer :)
>   
No problem.  I guess Sungjin can do the same as you did -- browse the 
code for NetServer -- and rewrite the code with the NetServer 
architecture (which is a set of abstract classes that take care 
themselves of the forking), while still starting from somewhere.

You have to subclass NetServer and NetSession.  NetServer listens on a 
socket and creates NetSessions; NetSession parses requests and passes 
them back to NetServer.  (Note that the request is an arbitrary object, 
so you can pass in your case for example an association like 
socket->data and do "request key nextPutAll: request value")

Then, you implement your server by overriding this methods:

- in the EchoServer, #newSession (answering "EchoSession new" in your 
case) and #respondTo: (which takes the request association and answers 
as I outlined above)

- in the EchoSession, #next (which might be as easy as "self 
socket->self socket nextHunk")

Note that examples and documentation are what is badly needed.  Sending 
them will never hurt.

Paolo