[Laszlo-dev] support for the "queuerequests" option for datasets

André Bargull andre.bargull at udo.edu
Wed Dec 10 15:55:46 PST 2008



On 12/11/2008 12:41 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>> It turns out that's ok for fetching data for display, but not
>> ok for transactional behaviors. That's why we added
>> "queuerequests", which tried to offer that transaction-ality.
>>
>> As such, queuerequests was supposed to:
>> * guarantee that a request was made for each request call on
>>  the dataset
>> * guarantee that the program would be notified in the correct
>>  order of the responses, regardless of the network latencies
>>
>> I remember writing the test for that, though god knows what
>> happened to it :)
>>
>> A
>>
>>
> 
> Hmm, ok, I'll see if I can find excavate any old tests. It sounds like
> the responses
> from the server have to be queued up in the client, in case they
> arrived out of order.
> 

All queuing happens for swf in LzLoader, see "LzLoader#expectedList". If 
we want to support this feature (again?), we should move that code out 
of LzLoader into a runtime independent class.



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