The constructor for TCP servers can no longer take a connection handler for
purely technical reasons. (The constructor for EventEmitter is implemented
in C++ but addListener is in javascript, and I don't want to make too many
C++ -> Javascript references.) Thus I introduce new constructor methods to
ease the creation of the servers:
node.tcp.createServer()
node.http.createServer()
These work almost the same as the old constructors.
In general we're working towards a future where no constructors are
publicly exposed or take arguments.
The HTTP events like "on_uri" are not yet using the event interface.
onMessage still is a constructor - but this will change soon.
There is one major API change in the refactor: filename extensions are now
required when requiring or including modules.
Added extra test to test-module-loading.js.
Instead servers are passed a function which gets called on connection (like
in the original design) which has one argument, the connecting socket. The
user sets up callbacks on that. It's pretty much how I had it originally.
Encoding is now set via v8 getter/setter and can be changed dynamically.
The timeout for all sockets is fixed at 60 seconds for now. Need to fix
that.
For server-side sockets, no longer pass the server object to the
js constructor. This is set later with SetAcceptor.
I think the change is a bit strage and convoluted but it allows one give
protocol /classes/ to the c++ constructors instead of protocol instances.
This is nice because derived classes (like HTTP) don't need to copy the
protocol instanciation code.
Here I massively change both the external and internal API of the TCP
sockets and servers.
This change introduces the concept of a protocol object like is found in
Twisted Python. I believe this allows for a much cleaner description of how
a socket behaves. What was once a single object "client" or "connection" is
now represented by two objects: a "connection" and a "protocol".
Well - I don't want to ramble too much because neither API is yet public or
documented. Look the diff of test/test-pingpong.js to see how things have
changed.