[erlang-questions] hierarchical behaviour doesn't seem to work ?

[Robert Virding]

I include an example of how this can be done taken from one of our courses. It implements a behaviour which is a GS server built on top gen_server and provides a more specialised callback interface similar to the normal gen_server one. I hope this will help show how it can be done.

Robert

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Vance,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:25:40PM +0530, Vance Shipley wrote:
> 
> > I wrote a howto article on this a few years ago:
> > 
> > 	http://www.trapexit.org/Cascading_Behaviours
> 
> ah, i see.
> 
> > Yes, you need to define these functions in your module.  Your
> > client may extend these itself and/or pass them on to my_bahaviour.
> 
> I've meanwhile found a solution to solve the problem.   I was
> thinking
> the "wrong way around".  What I need to do is I need to call
> gen_server:start_link(), and tell in the init arguments which
> specific
> implementation it should use (my_behaviour), which then needs to get
> passed the name of the actual module (client) into its init()
> argument
> list.
> 
> > Cascading behaviours wasn't anticipated in the design and, aside
> > from me, very few people have used that design pattern.
> 
> At least when it comes to public Erlang code, it seems like that.
> 
> And yes, the question was in fact related to signerl and the way how
> tcap_tco_server extends gen_server, and my osmo_sccp_tcap then
> provides
> the callbacks to tcap_tco_server.
> 
> Things seem to be coming along quite OK for remotely-initiated
> transactions.  I'm now working on locally-initiated transactions,
> where
> TC-BEGIN is coming from the TCAP user side.  I hope to have
> signerl/TCAP
> working fully in the next two weeks.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Harald
> --
> - Harald Welte <laforge@REDACTED>
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