Re: [naviserver-devel] nsproxy API

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On 9/18/06, Zoran Vasiljevic <zv...@ar...> wrote:
>
> On 18.09.2006, at 20:55, Stephen Deasey wrote:
>
> >  it's the explicit handle management that's making
> > things different.  Low level C APIs just don't map directly into C.
>
> What C API's ??
>
> Ns_ProxyGet
> Ns_ProxyPut
> Ns_ProxyEval
>
> are the only API's that C programmer might use.
> They are perfectly symetric and most simple.
> You Ns_ProxyGet a proxy, then you Ns_ProxyEval
> something in it (possibly many times) and then
> you Ns_ProxyPut it back. No locking. What could
> be simpler than that?


I mean that

    Ns_ProxyGet()

might be appropriate for C programmers, but that doesn't mean that

    ns_proxy get

is for Tcl programmers.  It's not just about level of difficulty
either. Mapping the low level C APIs directly seems to add a lot of
difficulty, because you have to take account of the Tcl environment
and all the crazy things that you just don't allow in the C API.