handling a lost comms of server on the client side
Added by Billy Muma almost 15 years ago
I've been learning to use wt for a while now and i am very pleased with the framework.
The LoadingIndicator is a good way of providing feedback to the user typically when
we are waiting for the server to respond.
I think it would be useful to have a use case similar to the LoadingIndicator
where a client-side wt application identifies that it can no longer communicate
with its server, and produce a 'ServerLostIndicator' that would attempt to
reconnect every x seconds.
if the server was restarted, all session information is lost anyway and
reconnecting would yield a completely new session.
if comms were down temporarily for whatever reason, reconnecting would restore the
session.
Any thoughts?
Can be this be implemented with the current state of Wt? ( maybe my skill level with
wt, js and c prevent me from seeing something very obvious )
Replies (1)
RE: handling a lost comms of server on the client side - Added by Koen Deforche almost 15 years ago
Hey Billy,
You are not overlooking anything.
While the client will already retry failed connections (using an exponential back-off algorithm), the loading indicator should have support for providing an appropriate message.
Can you make a feature request for this ?
Regards,
koen