[Twisted-Python] Message sizing design question

[David Pratt]

I guess I answered myself. Subclassing my base protocol to handle the 
marshalling between sending and receiving appears more transparent.

Regards,
David

David Pratt wrote:
> Hi. I am trying to decide where to put message sizing for a custom 
> protocol. I have set up the connections to be as generic as possible so 
> message handling in as much as possible is being done by the connection 
> handler that is aware of the connection it is handling at the time. 
> There are a few things I need to keep track of at the connection 
> (protocol) level such as original handshake and message id's that I am 
> tracking per connection, but for the most part, everything else can be 
> handled pretty generically by the connection handler.
> 
> In any case, where to deal with message sizing? My thought was that the 
> connection handler should deal with it since it should also be 
> responsible for encode and decode of messages. So to process or prepare 
> a message size seems like it fits in the connection handler also.
> 
> I realize Banana, for example does sizing in the protocol itself but it 
> does not anticipate handing the message off to a handler for such 
> things. Anyway, it would be great if someone could confirm my reasoning 
> or has some comments on this. Many thanks,
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
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