Dispatching events via |nsIThread| doesn't work with worker threads. This
patch replaces all uses of |nsIThread| in the socket code by equivalent
uses of |MessageLoop|.
The socket IPC interfaces still use 'main thread' in a number of
places. This patch changes all such interfaces and documentation
to speak of 'consumer thread' instead.
The consumer thread handles socket creation, destruction, and
data processing for socket IPC. Traditionally this has been
done on the main thread.
This patch extends the socket IPC classes to support arbitrary
consumer threads. The thread is configured when establishing a
connection, and performs all of the above operations until the
socket is closed.
The I/O thread sends and receives data on a file descriptor. This
has traditionally been performed on a single I/O thread.
This patch extends the socket IPC classes to support arbitrary I/O
threads. The thread is configured when a connection is established
and used until the socket gets closed.
This patch converts |StreamSocket| to forward events and data to an
instance of |StreamSocketConsumer|. All users are converted and the
related listener and consumer classes are removed.
With this patch, stream and listening sockets handle the setup of
accepted sockets internally. Sub-classes of |StreamSocket| don't
have to overload StreamSocket's |GetIO| any longer.
This patch cleans up the interface of |StreamSocket|. All arguments
that contain protocol parameters are removed from |Connect|. They are
stored in the connector class. |Connect| now returns error codes. The
method |GetSocketAddr| is unused and not thread-safe and therefore
removed. The method |SendSocketData| for strings is unused and removed.
This patch cleans up the interface of |StreamSocket|. All arguments
that contain protocol parameters are removed from |Connect|. They are
stored in the connector class. |Connect| now returns error codes. The
method |GetSocketAddr| is unused and not thread-safe and therefore
removed. The method |SendSocketData| for strings is unused and removed.
This patch cleans up the inherited methods of |StreamSocket|. Methods
of the same base class are grouped within the file, and each method
is labeled with 'override'.
This patch integrates |ConnectionOrientedSocket| into the hierarchy
of socket I/O classes. In future patches, the class can provide
common interfaces and functionality for all connection-oriented
sockets.
|ReceiveSocketData| receives socket data on the main thread. This
is a specific detail of the current socket classes, which should not
be required by future implementations.
This patch moves the receive method and the corresponding runnable
into socket classes.
This patch renames |SocketConsumerBase| to |DataSocket|, and for the
I/O classes |SocketConsumerIO| to |DataSocketIO|. |DataSocketIO| also
contains send and receive functionality from |SocketBaseIO|.
|DataSocket| is a virtual base class that represents a socket that
transfers data, without a particular constraints to what the data
represents. |DataSocketIO| is the corresponding helper class on the
I/O thread.
Thomas Zimmermann
Carsten "Tomcat" Book
Ehsan Akhgari