Finishing 'socket'
Raimo Niskanen
raimo+erlang-questions@REDACTED
Tue Oct 20 11:24:14 CEST 2020
Hello List!
I have committed changes for 'socket' to the master branch.
These were most of the "big" changes for the 24.0 release,
so feedback is now most welcome!
From the Release Notes to come:
The experimental new socket API has been further developed. Some
backwards incompatible changes with respect to OTP 23
has been made.
The control message format has been changed so a decoded value
is now in the 'value' field instead of in the 'data' field.
The 'data' field now always contains binary data.
Some type names have been changed regarding message headers and
control message headers.
socket:bind/2 now returns plain ok instead of {ok, Port} which was
only relevant for the inet and inet6 address families and often
not interesting. To find out which port was chosen port use
socket:sockname/1, when needed.
There might be more changes I have missed to note. If you find
any please let me know so I can add them to the Release Notes.
We have thoughts about more creative error returns, such as instead
of {error, {invalid, {msg, Msg, addr}}}
maybe {error, [invalid, msg, addr, Addr]},
or {error, {invalid, [msg, addr, Addr]}}.
Maps variants have also been suggested, but I can have not found
a nice format.
Best regards
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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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