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Task #4636

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Modify docs to show producers unregistering prefixes to shut down faces

Added by Eric Newberry almost 6 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

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As discussed at the NDN Platform Call on June 11, the ndn-cxx documentation, including examples, needs to be modified so that producers are shown shutting down faces by unregistering all prefixes, instead of calling Face::shutdown(). This will ensure that the last sent Data packet is actually transmitted before the face shuts down.


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Related to ndn-cxx - Task #4642: Update producers across platform to unregister prefixes instead of shutting down faceClosedEric Newberry

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Actions #1

Updated by Eric Newberry almost 6 years ago

  • Related to Task #4642: Update producers across platform to unregister prefixes instead of shutting down face added
Actions #2

Updated by Eric Newberry almost 6 years ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to High
Actions #3

Updated by Eric Newberry almost 6 years ago

The existing producer example in ndn-cxx doesn't shut down its face, except in response to a prefix registration error, where Face::unsetInterestFilter() would be of no use. Does it need to be modified at all?

Also, I can't find any specific references to Face::shutdown() in the ndn-cxx documentation. Even so, we should probably add something about the proper way to shut down a face on a producer.

Actions #4

Updated by Davide Pesavento almost 6 years ago

Eric Newberry wrote:

Also, I can't find any specific references to Face::shutdown() in the ndn-cxx documentation.

You mean besides the doxygen[1]? What other doc do we have?
[1] http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-cxx/current/doxygen/d9/d55/classndn_1_1Face.html#a94cece651790f2b3e140ed157667587e

Even so, we should probably add something about the proper way to shut down a face on a producer.

Yes, we should.

Actions #5

Updated by Eric Newberry almost 6 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Code review
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Actions #6

Updated by Junxiao Shi almost 6 years ago

“Waiting for processEvents() to exit” isn’t a proper solution when multiple faces are tied to the same io_service. Is there another way?
I’m suspecting the m_transport.close() line in Face::asyncShutdown(). StreamTransportImpl::close() clears the transmission queue, and packets could be lost there.

Actions #7

Updated by Eric Newberry almost 6 years ago

Junxiao Shi wrote:

“Waiting for processEvents() to exit” isn’t a proper solution when multiple faces are tied to the same io_service. Is there another way?
I’m suspecting the m_transport.close() line in Face::asyncShutdown(). StreamTransportImpl::close() clears the transmission queue, and packets could be lost there.

So do we need to modify the code to prevent this issue, instead of just shifting to unsetInterestFilter?

Actions #8

Updated by Eric Newberry almost 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Code review to Closed

The relevant change was merged.

@Junxiao, feel free to move this to "Feedback" if you think more discussion of note 6 is warranted.

Actions #9

Updated by Davide Pesavento almost 6 years ago

Junxiao Shi wrote:

“Waiting for processEvents() to exit” isn’t a proper solution when multiple faces are tied to the same io_service.

Is there a use case for employing multiple Face instances in the same application? If an application really wants to do what you're saying, it should call run()/stop()/reset()/etc.. on the io_service directly, and not use Face::processEvents() and shutdown().

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