I know what's going wrong, but I'm not enough of a python geek to see a clean
fix.
The basic idea is that the client sends a request and the server sends back a
clump of packets. The client specifies the max clump size. What's happening
is that at least one packet of the clump is getting lost. The code is
supposed to reduce the clump size when that happens, but that's not working.
Here is the code outline:
mrulist calls doquery to get a clump of data
there is an except phrase to reduce the clump size
doquery calls sendrequest then getresponse
getresponse returns the answer in self.response
it also returns None (and maybe falls off the end with no return?)
I think getresponse needs to return two things.
one is the data
the second is a flag: none, some, all
There are lots of raises and excepts in there that I haven't sorted out.
I think the code should return partial data. It doesn't. Or it doesn't get
processed.
What's the right way to structure this? Should we fix the current code, or
make a drastic change?
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Where is the if for this else? Can else go with something other than if?
The code past the else is the normal case. It gets run if the break doesn't
happen.
This chunk of code is from near the end of getresponse in pylib/packet.py
# If we've seen the last fragment, look for holes in the sequence.
# If there aren't any, we're done.
if seenlastfrag and fragments[0].offset == 0:
for f in range(1, len(fragments)):
if fragments[f-1].end() != fragments[f].offset:
warndbg("Hole in fragment sequence, %d of %d"
% (f, len(fragments)), 1)
break
else: <=== this one
tempfraglist = [ntp.poly.polystr(f.extension) \
for f in fragments]
self.response = ntp.poly.polybytes("".join(tempfraglist))
warndbg("Fragment collection ends. %d bytes "
" in %d fragments"
% (len(self.response), len(fragments)), 1)
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