Re: smsbox to bearerbox ack / nack

Hi,

no you miss the point. ack_success and ac_failed are the final states and  
therefor bearerbox drops these messages from the store and queue. When I  
commited this patch I told that it misses ack_failed_tmp that is used for  
the purpose you describe. That means when bearerbox receive ack with  
ack_failed_tmp (temporarely) bearerbox will then do retry for this message.
I will try to merge this bit this week.

Am 02.11.2006, 12:56 Uhr, schrieb Ben Suffolk <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> I have been doing some investigation into tighter integration of my  
> application with kannel. As such I have been writing some applications  
> that communicate directly with bearerbox, connecting to the smsbox port.  
> For sake of simplicity lets call my app mysmsbox.
>
> What I noticed was that when a message is sent from bearebox it stays in  
> the storefile until an ack is sent back. This is great if mysmsbox dies  
> before it has done processing the message.
>
> But I also notice that if you send ack_success or ack_failed back to  
> bearerbox it seems to make no difference.
>
> Ideally I think it would be better if you sent back ack_failed for  
> bearebox to requeue the message (possibly after some small time delay).  
> This way if you were unable to process the message for some reason a  
> different mysmsbox has the chance to do it. Under the current situation  
> you have to wait for the current box to be in a situation where it can  
> now process the message, or it needs to restart in order to allow  
> another mysmsbox a chance.
>
> In the situation where you only have 1 smsbox type app connected it  
> really makes no difference. But if you are looking for a more resilient  
> solution then multiple smsbox apps on different servers is the way  
> forward, but only if you have a way of failing messages over from one  
> smsbox to another.
>
> I'd be interested in peoples comments, and how easy they think it will  
> be to implement.
>
> Regards
>
> Ben
>
>
>



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Thanks,
Alex