Matching responses to requests with a Future?

[Rogan Dawes]

Hi,

I'm trying to come up with a scheme to match responses to the original request, and trigger a Future/Promise when the response is received.

Conceptually, something like:

Message m = new Message("Something");

Future<Response> rf = m.future();

rf.addListener(new FutureListener() {

  public void operationComplete(Future<Response> f) {

    if (f.isSuccess()) {

      Response r = f.get();

      // ... something with the response

    } else {

      // it failed

    }

  }

});

ctx.writeAndFlush(m);

A ChannelHandler further along the pipeline will take care of matching the responses to the requests, and will trigger the future accordingly.

I'm actually trying to implement a Modem handler, that will indicate whether the AT command was successfully executed or not, in case that helps add context.

Any thoughts?

Rogan

[Rogan Dawes]

Never mind, I think I have realised that this is not the appropriate model for programming with Netty.

Rogan