[opensource-dev] ParcelAccessListReply packets have no reliable end of list indication?

[Tigro Spottystripes]

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i believe this is related: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-15563
"Client gives up before finishing to load full inventory due to packet loss"

On 19/4/2010 21:07, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> 
> On 2010-04-19, at 13:46, Joshua Bell wrote:
> 
>> It is certainly the case that several request/response-type messages
>> do not have a way of signaling that all of the data was sent. This
>> arose from thinking of the protocol in a purely viewer-centric way,
>> i.e. if the viewer was  populating a list view, the data in additional
>> packets is simply appended. This imposes unfortunate constrains the
>> design of clients that want to process things differently than the
>> viewer.
>>
>> This varies from message to message and even within message usage,
>> e.g. MapBlockReply has a "end of results" signal when issued in
>> response to to MapNameRequest, but not when issued in response to
>> MapBlockRequest.
>>
>> I took a peek at the sim code that issues ParcelAccessListReply and
>> your analysis appears to be correct; there's a special case for
>> sending a null entry if there are no entries at all, otherwise the
>> data is just sent in as many packets as necessary, with no termination
>> indicator.
> 
> Would that explain why the viewer sometimes appears to lose data (for  
> example, spurious missing inventory), because it's got no way of  
> knowing if some of the packets from the server were lost unless there  
> were later packets? If so, that doesn't seem like a really good design  
> for the viewer itself.
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