Now we're finally at client_handler.cpp where we have to write some code. This file has more code than the rest of the application all together.
// page05.html,v 1.12 1999/09/22 03:13:38 jcej Exp /* In client_handler.h I alluded to the fact that we'll mess around with a Client_Acceptor pointer. To do so, we need the Client_Acceptor object declaration. We know that including client_handler.h is redundant because client_acceptor.h includes it. Still, the sentry prevents double-inclusion from causing problems and it's sometimes good to be explicit about what we're using. On the other hand, we don't directly include any ACE header files here. */ #include "client_acceptor.h" #include "client_handler.h" /* Our constructor doesn't do anything. That's generally a good idea. Unless you want to start throwing exceptions, there isn't a really good way to indicate that a constructor has failed. If I had my way, I'd have a boolean return code from it that would cause new to return 0 if I failed. Oh well... */ Client_Handler::Client_Handler (void) { } /* Our destructor doesn't do anything either. That is also by design. Remember, we really want folks to use destroy() to get rid of us. If that's so, then there's nothing left to do when the destructor gets invoked. */ Client_Handler::~Client_Handler (void) { // Make sure that our peer closes when we're deleted. This // will probably happened when the peer is deleted but it // doesn't hurt to be explicit. this->peer ().close (); } /* The much talked about destroy() method! The reason I keep going on about this is because it's just a Bad Idea (TM) to do real work inside of a destructor. Although this method is void, it really should return int so that it can tell the caller there was a problem. Even as void you could at least throw an exception which you would never want to do in a destructor. */ void Client_Handler::destroy (void) { /* Tell the reactor to forget all about us. Notice that we use the same args here that we use in the open() method to register ourselves. In addition, we use the DONT_CALL flag to prevent handle_close() being called. Since we likely got here due to handle_close(), that could cause a bit of nasty recursion! */ this->reactor ()->remove_handler (this, ACE_Event_Handler:: READ_MASK | ACE_Event_Handler::DONT_CALL); /* This is how we're able to tell folks not to use delete. By deleting our own instance, we take care of memory leaks after ensuring that the object is shut down correctly. */ delete this; } /* As mentioned before, the open() method is called by the Client_Acceptor when a new client connection has been accepted. The Client_Acceptor instance pointer is cast to a void* and given to us here. We'll use that to avoid some global data... */ int Client_Handler::open (void *_acceptor) { /* Convert the void* to a Client_Acceptor*. You should probably use those fancy ACE_*_cast macros but I can never remember how/when to do so. Since you can cast just about anything around a void* without compiler warnings be very sure of what you're doing when you do this kind of thing. That's where the new-style cast operators can save you. */ Client_Acceptor *acceptor = (Client_Acceptor *) _acceptor; /* Our reactor reference will be set when we register ourselves but I decided to go ahead and set it here. No good reason really... */ this->reactor (acceptor->reactor ()); /* We need this to store the address of the client that we are now connected to. We'll use it later to display a debug message. */ ACE_INET_Addr addr; /* Our ACE_Svc_Handler baseclass gives us the peer() method as a way to access our underlying ACE_SOCK_Stream. On that object, we can invoke the get_remote_addr() method to get an ACE_INET_Addr having our client's address information. As with most ACE methods, we'll get back (and return) a -1 if there was any kind of error. Once we have the ACE_INET_Addr, we can query it to find out the clien's host name, TCP/IP address, TCP/IP port value and so forth. One word of warning: the get_host_name() method of ACE_INET_Addr may return you an empty string if your name server can't resolve it. On the other hand, get_host_addr() will always give you the dotted-decimal string representing the TCP/IP address. */ if (this->peer ().get_remote_addr (addr) == -1) return -1; /* If we managed to get the client's address then we're connected to a real and valid client. I suppose that in some cases, the client may connect and disconnect so quickly that it is invalid by the time we get here. In any case, the test above should always be done to ensure that the connection is worth keeping. Now, register ourselves with a reactor and tell that reactor that we want to be notified when there is something to read. Remember, we took our reactor value from the acceptor which created us in the first place. Since we're exploring a single-threaded implementation, this is the correct thing to do. */ if (this->reactor ()->register_handler (this, ACE_Event_Handler::READ_MASK) == -1) ACE_ERROR_RETURN ((LM_ERROR, "(%P|%t) can't register with reactor\n"), -1); /* Here, we use the ACE_INET_Addr object to print a message with the name of the client we're connected to. Again, it is possible that you'll get an empty string for the host name if your DNS isn't configured correctly or if there is some other reason that a TCP/IP addreess cannot be converted into a host name. */ ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG, "(%P|%t) connected with %s\n", addr.get_host_name ())); /* Always return zero on success. */ return 0; } /* In the open() method, we registered with the reactor and requested to be notified when there is data to be read. When the reactor sees that activity it will invoke this handle_input() method on us. As I mentioned, the _handle parameter isn't useful to us but it narrows the list of methods the reactor has to worry about and the list of possible virtual functions we would have to override. */ int Client_Handler::handle_input (ACE_HANDLE handle) { /* Some compilers don't like it when you fail to use a parameter. This macro will keep 'em quiet for you. */ ACE_UNUSED_ARG (handle); /* Now, we create and initialize a buffer for receiving the data. Since this is just a simple test app, we'll use a small buffer size. */ char buf[BUFSIZ]; /* Invoke the process() method with a pointer to our data area. We'll let that method worry about interfacing with the data. You might choose to go ahead and read the data and then pass the result to process(). However, application logic may require that you read a few bytes to determine what else to read... It's best if we push that all into the application-logic level. */ return this->process (buf, sizeof (buf)); } /* If we return -1 out of handle_input() or if the reactor sees other problems with us then handle_close() will be called. The reactor framework will take care of removing us (due to the -1), so we don't need to use the destroy() method. Instead, we just delete ourselves directly. */ int Client_Handler::handle_close (ACE_HANDLE handle, ACE_Reactor_Mask mask) { ACE_UNUSED_ARG (handle); ACE_UNUSED_ARG (mask); delete this; return 0; } /* And, at last, we get to the application-logic level. Out of everything we've done so far, this is the only thing that really has anything to do with what your application will do. In this method we will read and process the client's data. In a real appliation, you will probably have a bit more in main() to deal with command line options but after that point, all of the action takes place here. */ int Client_Handler::process (char *rdbuf, int rdbuf_len) { /* Using the buffer provided for us, we read the data from the client. If there is a read error (eg -- recv() returns -1) then it's a pretty good bet that the connection is gone. Likewise, if we read zero bytes then something wrong has happened. The reactor wouldn't have called us if there wasn't some kind of read activity but there wouldn't be activity if there were no bytes to read... On the other hand, if we got some data then we can display it in a debug message for everyone to see. */ switch (this->peer ().recv (rdbuf, rdbuf_len)) { case -1: // Complain and leave ACE_ERROR_RETURN ((LM_ERROR, "(%P|%t) %p bad read\n", "client"), -1); case 0: // Complain and leave ACE_ERROR_RETURN ((LM_ERROR, "(%P|%t) closing daemon (fd = %d)\n", this->get_handle ()), -1); default: // Show the data ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG, "(%P|%t) from client: %s", rdbuf)); } /* It's also worth mentioning that recv() has a cousin: recv_n(). recv_n() will receive exactly the number of bytes you provide it. This is very good when you know exactly how much you expect to receive. For the application here, unfortunately, we don't have any idea how much the client will be sending. recv() will read up-to-but-not-more-than the number of bytes we specify (e.g. -- _rdbuf_len). That works well when we don't know how much the client will provide. */ return 0; }