Some ideas for a nicer API

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Some ideas for a nicer API

leahneukirchen opened this issue 14 years ago · comments

Make it #send(str, opts=0) and #recv(opts=0) (i.e. make the opts 0 by default)
Subscribe to everything unless specified otherwise? The Python API seems to do that.

Martin Sustrik · Answer 1 · Thu Jun 24 2010 03:13:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Agreed on default flags = 0.
Would you like to suggest a patch?

As for subscriptions, subscribing for everything by default doesn't make sense. Subscribers that don't want everything would have to unsubscribe immediately, but even then, there would be no guarantee that some messages wouldn't slip through in the short interval between socket creation and unsubscription.

Brian Buchanan · Answer 2 · Thu Jun 24 2010 03:27:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the ideas!

I just pushed a change that makes the flags argument optional. I agree with Martin on the subscription behavior, and am leaving it as-is for now.