[erlang-questions] gen_fsm and keepalive timer

[Dmitry Kolesnikov]

Hello,

I would recommend to use gen_fsm:send_event_after(...) 
see http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_fsm.html

It makes your code is more readable and allow to handle multiple timeouts/timers within state. 

Dmitry


On 29.12.2011, at 20.35, Michael Santos <michael.santos@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 06:51:44PM +0100, Ivan Ostres wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> I am trying to implement FSM of a protocol inside gen_fsm behavior.
>> For a keepalive purpose I need a timer that would produce event when
>> timer is expired so I could know when to send a keepalive packet and
>> to know when holdtime is gone (I didn;t receive keepalive packet
>> from other side). I was trying to get more info on
>> gen_fsm:start_timer but documentation is a bit sparse - it's clear
>> how to create timer but not how to catch it's event (well, at least
>> to me since this is first time I am using gen_fsm).
>> 
>> If someone could explain this in few sentences I would be very
>> grateful. Also if there is a better way for keepalive mechanism
>> inside gen_fsm, I would like to know it.
>> 
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Ivan Ostres
> 
> Using the optional timeout in gen_fsm states might be simpler to use:
> 
> -record(state, { timeout = 1000 }).
> 
> my_state(Data, #state{timeout = Timeout} = State) ->
>    handle_protocol(Data),
>    {next_state, my_state, State, Timeout};
> my_state(timeout, #state{timeout = Timeout} = State) ->
>    keepalive(),
>    {next_state, my_state, State, Timeout}.
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