[xSocket-develop] socket server design considerations

[Mike T. <mik...@ho...>]

Hi

Bit of a newbie to writing socket server code, but this library looks like it will do a lot of the donkey work, so I am going to give it a go.

The requirement is fairly simple, allow connections from multiple clients, process the data they send (i.e. validate and send back an ack) and and write it to the database. I also need to poll the database for outgoing messages to any "online" clients. Would expect to need to support 100-250 clients concurrently.

Should I handle the receive events in the onData event or is it best to pass the data to a worker thread (or pool of worker threads)?  Any examples of this would be greatly appreciated.

As for the outgoing messages, I am not too sure how to implement this. One worker thread that polls the database and if it manages to find data for a client, it sends it directly to the connection?

Any guidelines would be appreciated.

Cheers

Mike


 		 	   		  
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