Re: Bb's Wish List (Sept 96)

• Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:29:47 PDT
• From:
  Jefferson.M.Dubrule@dartmouth.edu (Jefferson M. Dubrule)
• Reply-to:
  manta@dartmouth.edu

--- "Seth I. Rich" wrote:
> - connected_seconds() should return the number of seconds a not-yet-connected
>   player object as been connected.  I don't see why idle_seconds() should
work
>   and connected_seconds() shouldn't.  This can be very useful in this day of
>   using MOO to handle strange and miraculous network utilities.

You could, of course, keep an index of connection times from $do_login_command,
but does seem silly that connected_seconds() doesn't handle it.  I tend to
bypass the problem entirely by having a 'connection object' that gets @created
when a player logs in, do_login_command instantly attaches a connection to it,
and then verbs on the object itself handle the rest of the interaction
($www.object:GET any any any, for example)

> - connection_object(OBJ player) should, for an object which has an active
>   network connection, return the listening object through which that object
>   is connected.  If foo (#234) is connected, I'd like to know if foo came in
>   through $login or $httpd or wherever -- so, for example, I can throw the
>   right kind of text his way in $handle_uncaught_error.

This can be done in-db as follows (from $handle_uncaught_error):

port = tonum($string_utils:explode(connection_name(player))[2]);
listener = $list_utils:assoc(port, listeners(), 2)[1];

However, yes, a function would be nice.  Perhaps unlisten() should also be able
to accept an Object, so you can boot objects.


BTW, my server patch for non-overrideable verbs has been behaving nicely on a
medium-to-large size MOO for the past month or so, so I think it is probably
not going to crash anything.  I'll be making it available as soon as I can find
an anon FTP site or WWW space to put it on.

-manta

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