Re: [Plastic-devs] plastic file ref

[B W. <s05...@sm...>]

Quoting Mark Taylor <m.b...@br...>:


> my best guess for what's happening here is that TOPCAT is writing the
> temporary file (in /tmp/plastic*.vot, as John says), but then deleting
> it before Eirik has read it.  What it does for a table broadcast/transmit is:
>
>    1. Write a VOTable representing the current state of the table to
>       be sent to a temporary file
>    2. Send the loadFromURL message
>    3. Wait for the response object from the hub describing which
>       listeners succeeded and which failed to load the table
>    4. Delete the temporary file
>
> So you might well see what you are seeing if you are replying to the
> loadFromUrl (returning a true/false error status) before you've actually
> consumed the temporary file.
>
> Is that what you're doing?
>
> Mark
>

Yes, I think I might be sending the response before I load the table. I 
have my message handler and table loader running in separate threads.

Sound,
Brian.