Re: Implementing a cancelable task

Christian Grothoff <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2020 21:26:49 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.network.gnunet.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 7/24/20 4:45 PM, Alessio Vanni wrote:
> 
> The problem I'm facing is that due to the presence of CADET, I don't
> have an immediate way to associate a certain task with a certain reply,
> as CADET is another async operation.
> 
> If really the only way (or the more correct) is to have the ID in the
> message sent to the remote peer then I supposed I'll do it, but I
> thought I'd first ask people with more expertise, especially since I'd
> like to have it work similarily to what GNUnet offers in its services'
> APIs (e.g. `GNUNET_GNS_lookup_cancel'.)

I'm still not exactly sure what you are doing, but indeed putting an ID
into the request and the reply is a very common pattern that is almost
never wrong ;-).

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