[phobos] Breaking changes for std.socket improvement

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Good question, and it's even better that you plan to throw away the code 
:o).

Walter?

Masahiro, I'll get back to you with a review soon. Thanks for the great 
work!


Andrei

On 07/08/2010 12:39 PM, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I have something on my mind in committing this change.
> std.socket doesn't seem to be Boost license. Why? Can be changed?
>
>
> Masahiro
>
>
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:24:04 +0900, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Sounds great.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:08 PM, "Masahiro Nakagawa"
>> <repeatedly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> std.socket lacks some features and I don't like current design. So, I
>>> rewrote this module.
>>>
>>> Summary:
>>>
>>> - Change API of Protocol, Service, and InternetHost.
>>>
>>> -----
>>> /* old */
>>> Protocol proto = new Protocol; // construct before check
>>> enforce(proto.getProtocolByType(ProtocolType.TCP)); // check
>>> // do stuff
>>>
>>> /* new */
>>> Protocol proto = enforce(Protocol.getByType(ProtocolType.TCP)); //
>>> construct after check
>>> // do stuff
>>> -----
>>>
>>> I leaves these classes for aliases(getaddrinfo can't get aliases).
>>>
>>> - Add AddressInfo class(wraps C's addrinfo struct)
>>>
>>> AddressInfo resolves some address familes. I added AF_UNIX support.
>>> This class is useful for Socket and Endpoint initialization.
>>>
>>> In the future, above classes should be moved to std.net(or std.net.dns).
>>>
>>> - Endpoint
>>>
>>> I think Address should not have port. Address is a address, not a
>>> endpoint.
>>> So I added Endpoint structs(derived their name from Asio) and
>>> Endpoints use corresponding Addresses.
>>>
>>> -- IPEndpoint
>>>
>>> This struct supports IPv4 and IPv6 using IPAddress.
>>>
>>> -- LocalEndpoint
>>>
>>> This struct supports local path using LocalAddress.
>>>
>>> - Socket
>>>
>>> Socket is a template bacause Socket should support any address familes.
>>> Old Socket uses class-inheritance, but newFamilyObject is
>>> bad(newFamilyObject can't use user-defined class).
>>>
>>> Some methods of old Socket used return-value checking :(
>>>
>>> - SocketSet
>>>
>>> add and remove methods are typesafe-variadic function.
>>>
>>> - Add const and attribute
>>>
>>> Sources:
>>>
>>> - socket.d
>>> http://bitbucket.org/repeatedly/scrap/src/tip/socket.d
>>>
>>> unittest is a simple example.
>>>
>>> - socketstream.d
>>> http://bitbucket.org/repeatedly/scrap/src/tip/socketstream.d
>>>
>>> std.stream will be replaced or eliminated. This module need?
>>>
>>> - LocalEndpoint sample
>>> http://bitbucket.org/repeatedly/scrap/src/tip/sample/echo_server.d
>>> http://bitbucket.org/repeatedly/scrap/src/tip/sample/echo_client.d
>>>
>>> Contribution from satoru_h
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to commit this change. What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>>> Masahiro
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