[erlang-questions] two gen_udp questions

[Kaiduan Xie]

Micha,

Yes, gen_server can receive udp message.

1. Open the socket in the init function of gen_server.
    init() ->
    ...
    gen_udp:open().

2. The incoming message will be handled in handle_info().

handle_info({udp, Socket, IPtuple, InPortNo, Packet}, State) ->

3. Either way will work.

Thanks,

kaiduan

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Micha<micha-1@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two question about udp handling:
>
> 1. can a gen_server also receive udp messages? When do I have to open the udp
> port for doing this (start_link, init)?
>
> 2. if my server receives an udp message and spawns a process to handle the
> request, is it better to let the spawned process sent the answer back over the
> udp socket or should the process sent the answer back to my udp handler which
> in turn sents it over the udp socket to it's destination.
>
> thanks for answering,
>  Michael
>
>
>
>
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