Yes, you could do it with 3 agents, one to order the messages, two to do the work :-). I'm not sure if the STM guarantees any ordering, but you'd probably want to be explicit.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Hussein B. <hubaghd...@gmail.com> wrote: > you mean one agent to deliver the notifications. true? > > > On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:01:42 AM UTC+2, Gary Trakhman wrote: > >> Yea, send uses a fixed threadpool, and send-off uses a growing one, so >> it's more suitable for IO-bound tasks. I don't think there's any >> difference in terms of how it looks from STM. >> >> 2 agents will have 2 independent queues, even though they might share >> threadpools, if you want to guarantee order, you need one queue. >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Hussein B. <hubag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I think send-off is used for IO operations, or? >>> >>> If an agent is started with messages [1 2 3] and then another agent >>> started with messages [4 5] , is it guaranteed that messages [1 2 3] will >>> be delivered before [4 5]? >>> >>> I'm talking about production and really concurrent system. >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:45:52 PM UTC+2, Gary Trakhman wrote: >>> >>>> Agent send operations inside a transaction get queued up and don't >>>> actually get sent until the transaction commits, that's probably what you >>>> want, it's meant for side-effects. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Hussein B. <hubag...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have a ServerSocket that stores the client ID and the client socket >>>>> object into a ref type. And I also have a thread that is running in the >>>>> background that checks if a specific condition is met, then it will start >>>>> send notifications to the clients (it will use the client-id-ref and >>>>> messages-ref). >>>>> >>>>> Of course, since both are refs; any operation needs to be run under a >>>>> STM transaction. >>>>> >>>>> My question is, is it ok to do IO Socket operation inside a STM >>>>> transaction? STM transaction might retry, this means that there are great >>>>> chances that the clients will receive the notifications more than once. >>>>> >>>>> For Socket IO operations inside STM transaction, is better/recommended >>>>> to do it using Agents? 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