Re: [pygame] Easy networking module - feedback needed

[Radomir Dopieralski <pygame@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Szymon WrÃblewski <bluex0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IÂfocused currently on creating client api and not everything is complete
> yet, but client side could look like this:
> (same code with syntax highlighting: http://pastebin.com/CiypsKpC)
>
> import pygame
> import pygame_network
>
> pygame.init()
> # create connection
> pygame_network.connect('localhost', 10000)
> # connection overlay
> host = pygame_network.client.Host()
> # register new packet type
> # it will call pygame_network.packets.PacketManager.register()
> echo = pygame_network.register('echo', ('user', 'msg'))
> name = raw_input('name: ')

I really hate to see the globals here. Wouldn't it be better to have
it something like this?

connection = pygame_network.connect('localhost', 10000)
connection.register('echo', ('user', 'msg'))

then you can connect to different servers with different protocols at
the same time.
The network events then would have a connection property telling you
from which connection they came.
You can also then close one of the connections independently from others.
You would also probably want a separate 'protocol' object on which you
would register the messages, so
that you can reuse it for several connections.

What do you think?


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Radomir Dopieralski